Neil - Plastic Man Talk

Even better (worse?), all the info is just lightly wrong, giving a poor impression of the story

Well yes, you are cute!

Holy cow. Also, the lighting on this scene is gorgeous. I picked up the dvd months ago, haven’t watched it yet. Clearly that needs to change.

It very much is.

Is there anything as good as Hot Raiden from the PlayStation Magazine in there?

Remembered this and went teehee

I also like the explanation that Plas had to pretend to be a firefighter in order for him to get Woozy’s death certificate, but also wanted to be buried.

Dangnabbit, if this series wasn’t such a farce I’d say it was a perfect *serious* look at Plastic Man, haha.

I also love that there’s a callback to an actual Golden Age story here, when bringing in Woozy’s mom. It’s nice not only in referencing a past Plas story, which many comics refuse to do, but also in fleshing out Woozy by revealing his imperfect relationship with his mother and how he stood by Plas.

Plastic Man doesn’t keep his brain in his body.

Plastic Man, in escaping the FBI, disguises himself as an angel tombstone, and flies away. Woozy’s mother takes it as a sign Woozy’s in Heaven.

Morgan guesses that Woozy was killed by someone getting revenge on the man Plas supposedly murdered, but Branner questions if Plas killed the guy at all. After all, if he was still a criminal, why would he become a superhero? Join the FBI and the Justice League?

Branner continues. If O’Brian was still a criminal, why wouldn’t he just continue being a thief but with superpowers? It’s a good insight into Branner, giving Plas the benefit of the doubt, and Plastic Man in general in showing how he truly became better. It’s a nice touch, especially when you know Branner was the one of the few people who knew Plas’ secret identity, and kept him on the FBI, as well as being his friend.

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Art by Kyle Baker

As someone who champions the character of Chief Branner as an important player in Plastic Man’s stories, I love this issue. It’s mostly about Branner & Morgan investigating Plas, giving good insight into Branner AND Plas as characters. A highlight.

Cass is great! She just had a DC Finest collection published, highly recommend!

It was also where I first learned of Plastic Man, through this JLA guidebook that actually didn’t stay there long.

Thank you, Scott Beatty.

God I just remembered that the first part of MAUS was there too. I read that a ton. Thank you, whomever decided that a bunch of high school-reading-at-the-youngest comics/graphic novels belonged in that school.

I don’t think like 11 year old Neil was quite ready for that one

Sometimes I remember how lucky I was as a kid that Understanding Comics and Marvels were in my elementary/middle school library. A bunch of Calvin & Hobbes too. And George Perez’ Wonder Woman! (Though I didn’t read that)

Whoever put League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen there was a psycho though.

This sketch about The Omen is pretty funny though. The gag they make about everyone having bandages on their head because Buck Henry got hurt when filming a sketch is great

Watching a Buck Henry episode and yeah it sure is a 70’s SNL episode

It’s not, haha

Plas gets to be the popped gum balloon for a crocodile.

Plastic Man becomes a huge piece of graffiti.

As an example of my point, the villain of this story (who’s silhouette looks like a Gallifreyan,) monologues about Plastic Man’s character and it’s exactly like how Uranium talks in Plastic Man No More!. Admittedly, I really didn’t like Uranium in PMNM!.

Woozy gets fookin’ blowed up, mate!

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Art by Kyle Baker

I love this book, but also kind of hate it in how all the satire on overly dramatic makes every other dramatic comic feel… silly, haha. It gets even more oblique in the later issues, where it directly uses dialogue from other comics to parody them.

Thank you! I tried making the letters all the same size other than the beginnings, but at the same time I’m freestylin’ it haha.

Yeah, I’m glad they went with the final title of Lost.

Rest in peace to the legendary Tatjana Wood.

Comic writing had Alan Moore; comic pencils had Will Eisner; comic lettering has Todd Klein; comic coloring had her.

You know how sometimes a band’s Greatest Hits album will include a new song in it, like how Mary Jane’s Last Dance was made for the Tom Petty Greatest Hits albums?

Has there ever been one of those songs that absolutely reeked? Just awful?

Tatjana Wood colored a number of seminal DC Comics. I recognized her name from when I was younger but when doing research for New History of the DCU her work and name were constants. A massive loss, a body of work that will be eternal and should always be celebrated.

Two things I noticed afterward. 1. His hairline’s kinda chopped here, huh. 2. I really like drawing his V-cut as being insanely deep.

Also, how’s the lettering, here? I want to start doing it more, and not just writing down the dialogue.

my commissions are open, DM me if you're interested!

Hey anyone looking for a pixel artist, please hit my buddy up!

It would mean a lot to me if you could share his original post too 🙏🏻

The XUM'S WHO entry for 711, written by me with art by George Brenner. Promising young attorney Daniel Dyce's friend Jake Horn was about to become a father, as well as be apprehended for a third felony account, which would mean life imprisonment. Because Dyce and Horn resemble each other, Horn convinced Dyce to be arrested in his place so Horn can be with his wife when his child is born, intending to turn himself in afterwards so Dyce can be released. However, after Dyce was convicted and sent to Westmoor Prison as Horn, the real Horn was killed by a hit-and-run driver, leaving Dyce with no way of proving his innocence. Now known merely as lifer #711, Dyce spent two years secretly digging a tunnel out of Westmoor. During that time Dyce concluded that he could not return to his former life, and so he chose to remain in the prison rather than become a fugitive. Later, upon eavesdropping on his fellow inmates talking about criminal schemes on the outside, Dyce decided to stop those plans by adopting the identity of a costumed vigilante. After the prison guards make their final nightly rounds, Dyce would use his secret tunnel to leave the prison to fight crime on the outside as the dreaded 711 (named after his prisoner number), then return to his cell before the morning roll call. Many of 711's adversaries later became Dyce's fellow inmates at Westmoor Prison. During one fateful case, 711 tracked down an escaped convict, racketeer Oscar Jones. In the ensuing battle, Jones used his concealed handgun to shoot 711 dead. POWERS & WEAPONS 711 was a formidable hand-to-hand combatant, and heavily relied on the element of surprise to overcome his foes. He sometimes left a calling card at a soon-to-be-captured criminal's hideout, which had a mirrored surface with black bars painted over it, making the criminals see themselves behind bars.

It was neat to get an attendee's perspective of the event. I wonder if he knows that "The Albatross" as described by Martin Pasko was actually an idea to redo Quality Comics character 711...

Some different Eel’s I’ve drawn over the years, just experimenting and all

and his eventual Plas face as being his actual normal real face when he gets comfortable. (And with the super long Plas face he had in the early stories being an exaggerated form he did less and less.)