Tom versus the JLA, annual number two, or I found the Holy Grail.

I'm speechless.

Welcome back for Justice League annual number two from 1984 entitled The End of the Justice League, written by Jared Conway, art by Chuck Patton, inked by Dave Hunt, lettered by Ben Oda, colored by Carl Gafford,

edited by Alan Gold with a cover by Chuck Patton and Dick Girodano.

This is the beginning of Justice League Detroit, and I'm going to be honest with you.

This issue blew my mind, and I don't know if it's because of the painkillers I'm taking because I hurt my back

combined with the beer I've drank. But this issue, it's, it's going to go long. This is going

to go longer than the 14 minutes because there's so much to deal with in this. So let's get

right to it. We open with the Justice League. Mostly the Justice

League that fought the Martians and the Mars Earth invasion have taken a space shuttle up to check

out the damage to the satellite. So we get a nice two-page spread of a very heavily damaged satellite.

Windows broken. It's all keyed to shit, the Martians broke

out their car keys, scratched it up, everything's busted, nice use of elongated man

stretching his neck out of the space shuttle. They're checking it out, surprise, Aquaman's

a bit of a drama queen and pronounces that this is probably the end of the

Justice League just because the headquarters is broken. The others are slightly surprised except for

Hawkman, who seems to agree that there seems to be some sort of damage done to the league. They

all land back on the space shuttle. Greenough is trying to get everyone fired up about fixing up

the satellite and Aquaman goes, hey, no, no, we're damaged.

Now, I don't quite understand why this emergency is so much more damaging than any other

emergency they've been in, but it is so much so that Aquaman skulks off by himself and he reaches

a nearby beach where he's running along the beach thinking of his wife. I imagine he's crying.

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