Neil - Plastic Man Talk

Jesus Christ

That was a weird comic. Also it’s weird that that was Terrifics Plas, but he was still wearing his regular costume.

Hmmm, it’d be easy to say Terrifics, and I really do want them together again as a foursome, but that might be cheating. You know what? I wanna see what that Legends Of Tomorrow team he was on is doing. Are we gonna see them again?

Steel, who’s armor is being controlled to toss his hammer through the Watchtower’s hull, is stopped by Plastic Man, who catches the hammer with his body.

Prometheus gets whipped in the nuts by Catwoman.

After all is said and done, Zauriel and Steel talk to one another about just what happened, and what their future’s like. Steel says that after today, he’s “Plastic Man’s best friend.”

A new JLA lineup is fully formed, made up of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman (Hippolyta, for the moment), Aquaman, Green Lantern (Kyle Rayner), The Flash (Wally West), Martian Manhunter, Huntress, Steel, Zauriel, Orion, Big Barda, Oracle, Plastic Man, and friend of the group Catwoman.

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Art by Arnie Jorgensen

Nothing much ever came from Steel and Plastic Man’s supposed friendship, which is introduced here. I’d have liked to have seen more of that.

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Telepathic comic book character who reads the thought bubbles and the narration captions

You seem to forget that every golfer is pure evil and likes to be as evil and dumb as possible

Now that’d be a fight I’d pay to see!

If Elongated Man was allowed to just join, why not Plas?

Totally! I’m not a fan of Batman being involved in Plastic Man’s origin, or Plas relying on Batman to help him do things, but I love (at least the idea of) Plas on the JLA.
I don’t think he needs to have Batman vouch for him to join the League. I think them just recognizing his talents is enough

Yellow 🤓

Honestly, probably green or black? Yeah, I’d say green would be a good look on him.

For a good chunk of Plas’ time, he was a perfectly intelligent hero, an FBI agent who often solved murders. He only became a dummy goofball around the time of JLA. That being said, he did get to show some intelligence in JLA’s WW3 arc, planning around Queen Bee’s blindness to red color.

Now that we’re in the JLA era, let’s do some questions on NGL!

ngl.link/plasticmantalk

They really XBoned themselves huh

Sweeeeeet!

In fact, he did :) (Adventure Comics 471)

Television reporter Amanda Trellace announces how after the JLA announced its disbanded, they reconsidered and now are looking for new members. Trellace is wearing a distinct outfit, a yellow and black-striped blouse with a red jacket. It’s very Plastic Man, and I like to jokingly headcanon that Plas actually sold a trademark on his design, explaining why so many clothes and unrelated products look like him.

Electric Blue Superman looks to a crowd of reporters, in a smile and pose that looks really weird, like a late 90’s CGI mocap scene in a pre-rendered cutscene in a video game

Meet the new lineup for the JLA, (clockwise starting from the top): Zauriel the angel, Green Lantern Kyle Rayner, the Hunteess, Superman, Steel, Aquaman, the Flash, Wonder Woman Hippolyta, and Plastic Man.

The villain Prometheus, who broke into the JLA’s new watchtower, explains loudly to Huntress how he’s using hypnotic flashing lights to stop her from attacking him. I don’t like Prometheus. Hate him, actually. A stupid “Gary Sue” type villain that always is one step because there’s nothing interesting about him.

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Art by Howard Porter

So that was Saturday October 11th 2025. Crikey. Another day done, another (more or less) here. So it goes.

(Out this very month in 1948, just 77 years ago, Plastic Man #10, with its delightful cover by the genius that was Jack Cole.)

And so to bed. Sleep well, gentle sentients of Planet Earth.

I remember this!

Also, man, I really wish Grant Morrison had read Golden Age Plas. I think they could’ve done okay with that version. At the least, they’d remember Plas hatred of magic and done something fun with it here.

Also I know I’ll get to it later but Circe really saw this one dude who had an open crush on her and challenged her magic and decided “he needs to go to the torment nexus”

I’m so tired that I almost fell asleep writing this more than 5 times, and maybe twice or more for the alt texts. It’s funny

Plastic Man, disguised as The Joker, attempts to awaken Jemm, Son Of Saturn, from Lex Luthor’s mind control.

Plas reveals himself ina very liquid and goopy fashion. This era of Plas was pretty different not just in personality, but also in visual interpretation. He’s now more visibly goopy as he shapeshifts, as well as shiny.

Plastic Man has fallen head over heels for Circe. And, frankly, who wouldn’t?

Why Plas likes the witch so much: she can control his physical form in the same fashion he can, which no one else has really done before.

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Art by Howard Porter

I suppose this is the start of the “horny Plas chases after women” era too. Bleh. At least his reasons for why he finds Circe so attractive and captivating are actually interesting and not just “lol isn’t it funny that he’s horny?”
They also spell his name wrong.

Nice!

It’s such a weird moment that’d be cool if Plas was written as a old hero. Because like 99% of the time he was basically written like he was still in his early 20’s

I’ve always thought (and I know you all have heard it before) a neat idea would be Eel O’Brian and Steve Rogers growing up in Brooklyn together, and seeing these two become very different people until they both become heroes

Brainiac is the herald, traveling the cosmos and saving singular cities, leaving all else to be consumed by his master. It’s his sole mercy

Honestly, I think making it based off of Post-Crisis, but also being picky and choosy, would be best

Or Milestone, which generally is allowed to be excluded.

Shit man I thought you were joking