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Neil - Plastic Man Talk
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Let’s Talk Plastic Man (and Woozy Winks!) Fan account for Longest Arm Of The Law! Here to talk and discuss all things pliable and reliable!
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Green Lantern (1990) 116

Art by Tom Lyle

I love the idea of all the goons superheroes fight actually being normal people brainwashed and supplied by one dude. Did they ever follow up on that? It feels like one of those ideas that has a ton of potential.
Kyle worries if Plastic Man will be alright, since he’s been kidnapped by the villains, but Booster Gold assures him that Plas can take care of himself. This is, as far as I can tell, the first time that Booster and Plas have ever actually interacted. Plas doesn’t break, even under torture. The Supplier reveals just exactly what he supplies; henchmen, for supervillains. Specifically, civilians he kidnaps and brainwashed into being soldiers that he sells to supervillain groups. This current batch are to be sold to another planet as disposable soldiers. It’s an insane revelation that really feels like it would change the entire course of how heroes fight casual villains. Especially since some of them are young enough to still be in high school!
November 17, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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JLA (1997) 33

Art by Mark Pajarillo

This is it. The issue with the Dress scene. God I hate it. I hate every bit of it. It’s gross and it’s violating. It’s dispicible. Its horrible to Big Barda. It’s forever tainted Plastic Man as a character. It’s a PAGE FILLER JOKE more than anything. Fuck this.
When Batman sends the JLA to take down Bruce Wayne, Green Lantern asks why, comparing Wayne to Donald Trump and questions why Bruce would destroy his own hometown… you just gotta laugh. The truth about “Bruce Wayne” is revealed. The man in the story is actually one of my White Martians, who were all brainwashed at the beginning of the series think they were regular people. It’s a plot point Waid would revisit later on in his main JLA run. Plastic Man as a snake. This is actually one of the first pages of Plas I ever saw as a kid, due to it being in a kid’s JLA encyclopedia. The White Martian is tricked by Plastic Man into thinking he’s about to be fart-incinerated.
November 16, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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These two panels alone would’ve been worth the price of the comic
November 16, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Have the bonus panels, including an absolutely slutty Woozy (I say with affection)
November 16, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Plastic Man Special (1999)

Art by Richard Pace & Ty Templeton (framing story), Rick Burchett (main)

Templeton packs so much into this book. Not just this hilarious story (a HEAVY pastiche on just about every lame art & story cliche you’d have seen in the 90’s), but the whole book, I love it a lot!
In the framing story, we see the typical day in the walls of a comic book store in the 90’s… I assume, with young teens and store workers all saying Plastic Man sucks because he’s not filled with pointless detail lines or absurdly hot chicks in spine-snapping poses or being replaced by a legacy character. What’s crazy is that this book came out about a month before the JLA issue with the “dress” scene, which gave a lot of people a GENUINE reason to hate him. After writer Ty Templeton is sufficiently beaten to a pulp by the kids, he imagines a world where Plastic Man is popular, and hip. It starts with Bane, cortex in silly tiny detail lines and absurd shading, attempting to break Plastic Man’s spine. Of course, no dice. I’ve seen this page being used as a way to powerscale Plastic Man, which I find hilarious. Even funnier, Bane’s co-creator, the nutso right-wing Chuck Dixon, once saw and reposted the page on his Twitter whining about how Bane would easily kill Plastic Man. Superman and Martian Manhunter watch as as all the C-Listers get blasted out of existence… of course, all the big guys “only” get to watch. ;) Ty Templeton predicts Doomsday Clock.
November 16, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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Plastic Man Special (1999)

Art by Dev Madan

I’ll just say I really don’t like this story. There’s some funny jokes, but I hate the idea that Woozy is some highly brain-damaged formerly top-level special agent that Plas is forced into a conservatorship for against his will. It’s just distasteful.
In a funny joke, this book posits that the reason why Eel wasn’t caught by the guards at Crawford was because he left the property and they gave up. It’s really funny… and as someone who used to be a security guard, very accurate. This book says Woozy was once a top NBI agent named Wolfgang Winks, a name I actually dislike. Agent Winks is forced to breath in the fumes of Plastic Man’s blood, which acts like airplane glue, and this gives him enough brain damage to turn him into the doofus Woozy. I’ve never been one fond of “this guy is brain damaged and that’s funny!” jokes, and I especially hate them after I’ve seen people I knew, were friends with even, get into accidents that caused serious permanent brain damage, to the point where they can’t take care of themselves in any way. I don’t find this funny. The NBI Chief, who appears in this book for the first time since 1977, forces Plas to watch over Winks now that he’s disabled. He specifically says “you broke him, you bought him”. It’s distasteful.
November 14, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Elastic Lad is just an identity Jimmy Olsen has sparingly, with powers like Elongated Man. You rarely see him pop up, especially nowadays
November 14, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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While Plastic Man, Elongated Man, and Elastic Lad all stretch, there’s some major differences. Plas came first, and also has shapeshifting as part of his powers, while also being a bit more comedy and crime focused. Ralph has more stretching and contortionist powers, and solves mysteries
November 14, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Some lovely book to start my day, thanks to the great folks at @oldtowncafecomics.bsky.social!
Birds Of Prey by Gail Simone Omnibus volume 1 Hello Darkness volume 3
November 14, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Plastic Man Special (1999)

Art by Richard Pace & Ty Templeton

One of my favorite parts of this comic is that it tosses is fun little pages and gags, including a factoid comic, a make-your-own-Plas-toy advertisement, and a hilarious interview with an insane director played by Denny O’Neil
Ty Templeton and Richard Pace bless our eyes with the image of Templeton in rubber pants as he writes this comics. That’s right kids, with a paper cutout, some paint, and ingenuity, you too can create your own Plastic Man toy… before your mom punishes you with a grounding so bad that you wish you never even read comic books to begin with. Have fun! As it’s mainly text, I wasn’t sure if I should even post the interview with Dezo Hogan, direct of a supposed 1940’s Plastic Man film. But frankly, it’s hilarious, and I think it’s worth the price of the whole comic. Even funnier is that Hogan is represented through pictures by Denny O’Neil. Hogan’s utterly nuts, with this supposed film being a huge success, but being completely destroyed because of the McCarthy hearings, as well as not knowing who Jack Cole is. Hogan explains the fate of the actor who played Plastic Man in said film: “Something like four or five months after the film hit and the real mania started, Darrick was pulled apart by a mob of PLASTIC MAN fans at a car show in Des Moines. The kids thought he really could stretch his arms, I guess, and he was literally torn limb from limb when a teenaged weightlifting squad yanked on them for a gag. Pavel paid a lots of money to get that Hugh’s up… but that came out at the trial.”
November 13, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Mm, I’m really hankering for a sweet treat, maybe I should have some
Kara (Zor-El) Mel(ba Manton) (Etta) Candy
November 13, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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Pennies no longer being made is ruining the day of this ONE Gotham Citizen! 👇
Joy Coyne, aka the Penny Plunderer
November 13, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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Plastic Man Special (1999)

Art by Aaron Lopresti

Unfortunately, this artist is another comicsgater.

This book is an anthology, the first we’ve seen since the 50’s! And I love it a lot, Ty Templeton perfectly translates Plas’ old personality into this book, making it a perfect Golden Age follow up
Terrorist hostage takers Brotherhood of the Savage Caribou, a clear and hilarious parody of Marvel’s Hydra, are barged in on by Plas and Woozy. An advertising exec offers to bring fame and fortune to Plas and Woozy. Plas declines, seeking only justice… and Woozy tells him to can it. Plastic Man as a mf’in T-Rex. Awesome! An ad that Plastic Man and Woozy did for the Super Bowl was very well paid for… to the point of airing thirty times, even overtaking the end of the game. Whoops!
November 12, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Also: Lady Shiva
November 11, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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I replayed Batman Arkham Origins recently, for the first time in about four years, and had a lot of fun with it! I’d say that my biggest issue, performance aside, is just how screwy the Dark Knight challenges system is. Could’ve used a few more tweaks so you wouldn’t accidentally lock yourself out
Reddit meme of TF2’s Heavy being terrified from the Meet The Pyro video, here edited to represent the devs of Arkham Origins, and the object of terror being Respawning Predator Rooms
November 11, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Green Lantern (1990) 115

Art by Mike S. Miller

I should mention, the artist here is a scummy right-wing comicsgate loser.
Booster Gold, driving Blue Beetle’s airship, rises out of the water with Plastic Man in tow. Booster explains to Green Lantern that he’s taken Plas along for an adventure while Blue Beetle is off somewheres else. Plas points to an army of goons and goes “Hellooo, guys! You said this would be a CINCH case! You didn’t say we’d be taking on the charge of the light brigade!” Plas’ writing in this story feels so… weird. It feels very disconnected to what Plas was like in JLA, and definitely to what he used to be like. It’s like some other character completely. While Booster’s off fighting the fiends, GL explains to Plas about page 167 of the JLA Handbook, which explains “Any member identified as spending time with Booster Gold and/or Blue Beetle is subject to immediate expulsion”. Plas says he’s never met Booster Gold.
November 11, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Heck yeah he would!
Do you think plastic man is an absolute master at doing the worm?
November 11, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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The visuals in the flashback in issue 5 kinda terrify me, particularly these expressions from Rex while he’s high on Miraclo
November 10, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Hourman (1999) 5, 6, 7

Art by Rags Morales

I don’t read Hourman, but these issues are kinda crazy. The League gets turned into robots! Wild.
Issue 5 Hourman, after just undergone a drug trip that took him through the life of Rex Tyler, aka the original Hourman, awakens to find that the JLA are arresting him… and are all robots. Issue 6 The JLAndroids arrest Hourman, and he’s restrained by Flash, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, and Plastic Man, in the form of a boat. After the JLAndroids have all been fought and defeated by Amazo, only one stands: Plastic Man! It’s kind of crazy, visually, the sight of him standing over his fallen comrades, no visible emotion. Issue 7 Everything back to normal, the League admire Hourman, and Plastic Man in particular wraps himself around the robotic hero.
November 10, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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The closest I’d say you get is when he helps out Kyle who’s trapped as the Martian Manhunter, but I say it feels a lot more akin to something any character could’ve told Kyle, and not just Plas specifically, which would’ve been nice.
November 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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I feel like if Foreign Bodies had taken a more serious approach with Plas, and was written when more of his Golden Age stories were well known, you could’ve done great things with him helping Arthur and the others dealing with the transition to others bodies.
November 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Plastic Man is a shapeshifter, and not just in terms of elastic powers or turning into inanimate objects. Way back when, he used to turn into other people, and often they were women. It happened a lot back in the Golden Age, but became a lost trait later on.
Dealing with Concrete Cargill, Plas sneaks into Cargill’s home in the form of a dame. When all the men are battering themselves ugly to win a contest, Plas turns himself into an obscenely vivacious babe, and flirts with Woozy to stop the masses of moronic men. After all, a crap ton of money ain’t nothin’ compared to the love of a beautiful woman. Plas and Woozy take on lady disguises when taking a vacation to Mexico, for frankly no reason at all. Plas fits the form a bit better. Woozy’s assigned to bodyguard for a rich Mrs. Prutt, whom Plas has already had brought to a secure location and taken her form. For literally no reason at all other than because he can, Plastic Man flirts with Woozy to a crazy amount.
November 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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In the scene, Plastic Man IS watching, but it’s only to further all the “what a horndog” jokes, and it just leads to another “shut up” jokes

I honestly think that if this had been written in a later time, Plastic Man could’ve been of great help here in assisting Leaguers in dealing with their forms
November 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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What I mean in particular is the aspect of the body swaps that lead into gender swapping, ie Aquaman going into Wonder Woman’s body*. In the comic, you mainly get a quick scene of Huntress teaching Arthur about his “center of gravity changing”, which feels more like a quick gag than anything
November 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Because then, it just means that NO ONE wants to listen to what they say, and that they shouldn’t. The video game Hi-Fi Rush does this a lot with main hero, Chai, who’s portrayed as an idiot that is constantly being insulted and called as such. And it’s just not fun! My main gripe with the game
November 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM