>Not all plastics are forever. DC has announced Plastic Man No More!, a new Black Label series that mixes hard-boiled noir with intense body horror for a story that finds Eel O’Brian’s time seemingly running out. The four-issue series comes from the creative team of writer Christopher Cantwell, artists Alex Lins and Jacob Edgar, colorist Marcelo Maiolo, and letterer Becca Carey.
>Eel O’Brian might be a superhero now—but before he was anything else, he was a crook. Until the accident that turned him into the pliable Plastic Man, Eel was bad to the bone…and just because he no longer has bones doesn’t mean that’s not still true. When an incident on a Justice League mission leads to catastrophic cellular damage, Plastic Man discovers he just might be out of time to make amends for the past he’s tried hard to outrun—or to save the soul of his son, who (unfortunately for him) might have inherited more from dear old Dad than just his superpowers…
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Ow the edge
And still in second place for even THAT.
Flashpoint Plastic Man is even edgier.
What about The Dark Knight Strikes Again. "most dangerous man in the world"
or was that Injustice?
They both did it
Why did 4 fingers come out of his mouth only for one arm to come out
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On Thursday, DC announced Plastic Man No More!, a new four-issue DC Black Label series launching in September from the Eisner-nominated creative team of Christopher Cantwell (Halt and Catch Fire, Batman: The Brave and The Bold, Iron Man) and Alex Lins (Immortal Hulk, Monarch).
“I don’t know about you, but when I think about Plastic Man, I immediately think of David Cronenberg,” said Cantwell in a statement. “There is an element of body horror to his story that I have always found fascinating. And I also found myself wondering recently — How would Plastic Man actually die? What would that look like? Is he immortal? And then I thought of the long and particularly nasty way real plastics and petroleum products break down when and if they finally do. That’s how I learned about depolymerization and the chemical process of ‘unzipping’ — from a particularly morose afternoon on the ol’ Internet, picturing what might happen to Eel if his entire cellular structure started to give way.”
so the same creative as that Hellcat mini from last year
I didn't read that so I wouldn't know.
>“I don’t know about you, but when I think about Plastic Man, I immediately think of David Cronenberg,
The least inspiring sentence I've had the displeasure of reading in a long, long time. All hope removed; will not be buying.
it's Cantwell, he a very surface-level writer who is slumming it in comics right now due to a lack of job opportunities in TV right now
Plastic Man has had some Cronenbergian panels before.
Lake sized gore factory that was zombie plastic man from DC Deceased
Shit was so cash. Dunno why people here crying about it. Booster Gold and Plastic Man are my top faves so I'll take whatever I can get. lol
Well, you gotta save up that money for your bottom surgery; we get it.
>“I don’t know about you, but when I think about Plastic Man, I immediately think of David Cronenberg"
Nah I think of Jack Cole, who had more creative fiber in a single finger than this hack does in his entire body
>chris cant write well
Fricking why?
>“There are many superhero stories that play with the metaphor of our own inability to control our physical bodies,” continued Cantwell. “Plastic Man provided a way to take that allegory even deeper. How we look in the mirror and see one thing, then see a photo of ourselves and don’t recognize the person at all. How we all break down over time. What’s this strange itch? Why is this sagging? Why does this hurt now? Is my face permanently going to look like this? Or get even worse? With all these questions in the story comes a real and profound fear of aging, and yes, what lies beyond that—dying.”
God I hope this isn't going to be the writer's mid life crisis therapy.
best cover
Great. More shit.
Every hero needs a "I'm fricking dying" story, huh?
Interested to see how they incorporate Woozy and Eel's family into this.
You expect Can'twritewell to know about Plastic Man lore.
I mean, the summary does mention his son at least.
I strongly recommend his Iron Man run. Dude fricking nailed it.
Maybe we’ll get a new Plastic Girl after all.
It's Black Label, the book could end with Plas actually dying and it wouldn't affect main canon.
DC should bring back Morgan and make her Plastic Girl
What is this from?
Tumblr
Was Morgan the fiancé/wife of Plastic Man 1 or 2?
Or had that been dropped by then?
There's two?
Morgan was specifically created by Baker for his run
In the BATB cartoon, Eel’s wife is Ramona
She’s also a nice contender for being Plastic Woman (I personally prefer the moniker Rubber Woman, but that’s just me)
Plastic Man's supporting cast is so inconsistent
>Tumblr
What’s that? Hpjgm
I like the costume
Ditto, but it'd be even better with goggles
I'd really like to see you tackle Plastic Edwina though
I didn't make the Morgan Plastic Girl edits but if I had to design Plastic Edwina I would give her a black vampire costume
Huh, I read the run some 8 years ago and this page is still memorable for me. For all the silliness the run had, there were some moments which really caught me off-guard with how real it could get.
It makes for a great contrast
Were you responsible for these edits some threads ago? And where can I find the rest?
Go to Tumblr, just search for plastic man and agent morgan and you should see the two past images plus a new one.
Kyle Baker is a great cartoonist, but why did he go the route of digital art? This looks like shit.
These are edits done by an anon a while ago, so it looks kinda rough.
Considering the wacky tone Baker was going for, I think it was the right choice. Some of the later panels are pretty good looking too
Nice art
Nice
>Where's the Tumblr page for theses?
YES.
>story of aging with the canonically immortal and unavung character
They should do it with Harley Quinn and make it a Mainline comic to kill her off.
>canonically immortal
I mean, isn't that the point? Even "immortals" can die in comics.
Christopher Can'twritewell
"NO GUYS IT'S GOING TO BE A WAID JL BOOK. THEY'VE BEEN TEASING IT ON TWITTER FOR MONTHS!"
I want everyone who told me I was wrong to apologize
Could be interesting.
At least it's not another Batman book.
Okay who seriously asked for this?
Wasn't everyone asking for Black Label books that aren't about Batman and his family?
Well, here you go.
>Wasn't everyone asking for Black Label books
No, I've been asking for Black Label to die because the comics are all poorly written edgy shit.
I don't think they meant this though
Should have been more specific then
sounds pretty cool, I'll check it out
>using Plas for edgy shit
Frick off DC
DC should have just let James Harvey do his Plastic Man comic
frick them
>hasn't been a decent interpretation of Plas since the Kyle Baker run in the 00's
I guess that's what I get for being a fan of a second-string character
>Plastic Man is a relatively-unknown character in general
>the few people that know him are the tiny minority of people that actually read comics he's in, or remember his very few cameos in bigger cartoons
>effectively there's a tiny group of fans and a huge percentage who don't know him at all
>make an edgy, grim comic series specifically targeted to that tiny group of fans that generally prefer him sillier or more cartoony as a foil against the grimdark shit going on
>high chance they'll use this comic just to dunk on him and make him suffer
>a character who, again, doesn't really have enough of a "presence" to justify ragebait
Booo. Really wish they would've done a PM cartoon at some point, or that they'd add him to a modern movie but have him be D-tier CG 99% of the time doing cartoony expressions as a foil to modern grimdark shit.
They did do a PM cartoon. Twice.
The pilot and the DC Nation shorts that followed it were good. A nice slapstick action cartoon. The showrunner ended up doing Rise of the TMNT.
>Really wish they would've done a PM cartoon at some point
I just want omnibuses of his classic comics. I hate all new comics. Not worth printing.
>I hate all new comics
Same
Everything went wrong somehow
We're in the bad timeline
Yeah I have thought about this before. It really feels like we're in a universe someone would have thought up for a grimdark Elseworlds.
>Comics Code Authority bumps comics back to exclusively kids fare
>All genres die but superheroes
>Distributor monopoly keeps comics out of places where those kids can find them so comics just become something nerdy adult men do
>Nepotism bleeds all relevancy and quality out of whatever's left
I found his son.
>Another dying hero goes on one last mission story
Eh those are typically okay. I'll give it a shot I guess. Can't be as bad as Superman: At Earth's End at the very least.
Shut your fricking mouth, Superman: At Earth's End was cringekino.
It is one of the best bad comics ever made I'll give you that. One of the only comics to give me that The Room feeling.
I like Superman At Earth's End for how stupid it is, you can't go wrong with twin clones of Hitler
eh
>catastrophic cellular damage
really? dumbfrick writers
Every day we rot, Anon. Not even plastic is exempt from this.
Plastic Man is a dilf
He certainly dresses scantily
Is this the first time DC did body horror Plastic Man? Seems like an obvious idea
more like Christopher Can't-write-well
>Becomes Microplastics Man
>"I HATE THE ANTICHRIST! I HATE THE ANTICHRIST!"
Nah. Plastic man forever!
Just what everyone was asking for! Is Tom King going to make him a rapist too? Frick DC.
No one complains when Marvel does this sort of story. It's always The End for the Punisher, Silver Surfer, even all the 2099 comics had hinted bad ends for the main versions of their heroes like Spider Man.
Granted, DC has shown an inability to write a proper ending to this things. The Adam Rann comic, for example. And the Wonder Woman comic from a few years ago who's only hook was "look, she has Superman's skull as a club."
>No one complains when Marvel does this sort of story.
Huh? I don't read the series but from an outside perceptive, Spider-man seems to just be Marvel doubling down on making Peter suffer and the fans complaining, for near a decade now.
>No one complains when Marvel does this sort of story.
Nobody complains when the plot is executed well, but they haven't been in decades. Marvel's beaten the concept into the ground between their standalones and issues of What If.
>DC announced today a new four-issue DC Black Label comic book miniseries launching in September, Plastic Man No More! The Eisner-nominated creative team of Christopher Cantwell (Batman: The Brave and The Bold, Briar, Halt and Catch Fire) and Alex Lins (Briar, Monarch, Immortal Hulk) brings you the five words you thought you’d never read in a press release:
Hard-Boiled Plastic Man Noir
>“I don’t know about you, but when I think about Plastic Man, I immediately think of David Cronenberg,” said Cantwell. “There is an element of body horror to his story that I have always found fascinating. And I also found myself wondering recently—How would Plastic Man actually die? What would that look like? Is he immortal? And then I thought of the long and particularly nasty way real plastics and petroleum products break down when and if they finally do. That’s how I learned about depolymerization and the chemical process of ‘unzipping,’—from a particularly morose afternoon on the ol’ Internet, picturing what might happen to Eel if his entire cellular structure started to give way.”
>Eel O’Brian might be a superhero now—but before he was anything else, he was a crook. Until the accident that turned him into the pliable Plastic Man, Eel was bad to the bone…and just because he no longer has bones doesn’t mean that’s not still true. When an incident on a Justice League mission leads to catastrophic cellular damage, Plastic Man discovers he just might be out of time to make amends for the past he’s tried hard to outrun—or to save the soul of his son, who (unfortunately for him) might have inherited more from dear old Dad than just his superpowers
>“There are many superhero stories that play with the metaphor of our own inability to control our physical bodies,” continued Cantwell. “Plastic Man provided a way to take that allegory even deeper. How we look in the mirror and see one thing, then see a photo of ourselves and don’t recognize the person at all. How we all break down over time. What’s this strange itch? Why is this sagging? Why does this hurt now? Is my face permanently going to look like this? Or get even worse? With all these questions in the story comes a real and profound fear of aging, and yes, what lies beyond that—dying. And when someone like Plastic Man is suddenly looking at the end of the road, and now reflecting on his legacy, he begins to wonder: was he ever taken seriously by anyone? Did he even take himself seriously? The character also has a history of neglect and failure when it comes to personal relationships. So quite catastrophically, Patrick O’Brien suddenly finds himself desperate, asking WHAT NOW? HOW DO I FIX THIS? “THIS” being his very body, his very cells, as well his connections to the people he loves. And just WAIT until you see how horrifically and hilariously Alex Lins and Jacob Edgar have rendered this referendum on our vanguard ultra-bendable former-criminal-turned-hero-guy.”
>Plastic Man No More! #1, written by Cantwell with art and main cover by Lins, additional art by Jacob Edgar, color by Marcelo Maiolo and lettering by Becca Carey, will have variant covers by Michael Allred, Chris Samnee, and Tyler Boss (1:25). Plastic Man No More! #1 will hit local comic book shops on September 4, 2024. Plastic Man No More! is a DC Black Label comic book series and carries an Ages 17+ content descriptor (for mature readers). Each issue of Plastic Man No More! will be 32 pages, with 32 story pages per issue. Artists Riley Rossmo and Martin Morazzo will be featured on additional variant covers throughout the new DC Black Label series.
It's in public domain?
Sounds like shit
Mid
How long before they do an homage to The Incredible Melting Man?
I dunno, it seems kinda interesting to me.
Hope it's good.