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Malachite_Dragon posted:Calling out Superman in Injustice is certainly inspiring, if it's the set of panels I think you're talking about. It is Not going to post it, as it's apparently an entire issue, but you can read the whole sequence here It's real good.
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The Injustice universe is what I feel would have happened if Earth 3 had survived COIE and been merged into New Earth with the worlds that canonically did
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Technically, there is a limit to Plastic-Man's powers, he can't change his colors  he has to work with what he has. Which actually means his son is an even better shapeshifter than he is- his son can change his colors at will.
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Oct 1, 2016 05:49
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Malachite_Dragon posted:Technically, there is a limit to Plastic-Man's powers, he can't change his colors Now someone post that last page from JLA #65.
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 I have no idea if this is the one you mean but it illustrates my point about "can't change his colors" pretty well "Touching" and inspiring 
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Oct 1, 2016 13:41
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Thanks! Also.... what?
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Oct 1, 2016 13:59
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namor destroyed their earth with a really big comic book science bomb
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Oct 1, 2016 14:04
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Plastic Man is a former crook trying to do the right thing. He was also created by the legendary pin-up artist Jack Cole. He's way better than Mr. Fantastic
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Oct 1, 2016 14:22
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What's funny to me about the reveal of the "Warden" in that Injustice issue is that This little doozy was my first exposure to Plas as a kid. Incidentally, how fast can Eels change himself? Cause it looks like he's outracing Barry Allen Flash with those fingers...
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Oct 1, 2016 15:52
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Supposedly Freddy Krueger's shape changing was inspired by Plastic Man.
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Oct 1, 2016 15:57
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Stumbled upon those injustice plastic man panels in the funny threadVeotax posted:Injustice Plastic Man is pretty great. What are some good runs i should check out?
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Choco1980 posted:What's funny to me about the reveal of the "Warden" in that Injustice issue is that This little doozy was my first exposure to Plas as a kid. Plastic MAn changes at least as fast as Elongated Man who is canonically established as being able to compete with Barry Allen's speed with his shifting. (That was one of the things he was originally introduced with, his shapeshifting and stretching was 'rocket-fast.') That probably doesn't hold up to SPEED FORCE GOES FAST Flash but at very least their shifting is absurdly fast.
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Oct 1, 2016 19:21
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site posted:Stumbled upon those injustice plastic man panels in the funny thread The original Golden Age Plastic Man stories by Jack Cole are some of the best comics ever made. The good news is, they're public domain and you can read them for free (and legally) here. Even though those early comics are actually still extremely readable, there's a chance you would prefer something more modern. In which case, you want the 2003 series and this special from 1999. This 80 page giant will also give you a pretty good overview of Plas's history.
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Oct 2, 2016 06:24
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Some of the early stuff is a bit ww2 propaganda heavy in its characterisations. As you'd expect from comics in the early 40's.
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Oct 2, 2016 13:31
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God bless Joe Kelly's Plastic Man character arc.
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Joe Kelly really wasn't appreciated enough in his day
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mind the walrus posted:Joe Kelly really wasn't appreciated enough in his day He really wasn't. His Superboy run was off to such a good start but he bailed on it due to being overworked but there was so much potential there.
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mind the walrus posted:Joe Kelly really wasn't appreciated enough in his day Following Grant Morrison and Mark Waid will do that. Did Joe Kelly create Faith or whatever her name was? I'm not going to call her a Mary Sue, but she was walking the line.
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Open Marriage Night posted:Following Grant Morrison and Mark Waid will do that. Did Joe Kelly create Faith or whatever her name was? I'm not going to call her a Mary Sue, but she was walking the line. Yeah Faith was terrible. But he gave us so many bright spots that I can forgive him for Faith.
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Doh totally forgot to look at this today thanks for the recs benito I'll check those out
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Rhyno posted:Yeah Faith was terrible. But he gave us so many bright spots that I can forgive him for Faith. What about the super white supremacist story? I remember that being a dud.
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Open Marriage Night posted:What about the super white supremacist story? I remember that being a dud. Golden Perfect was good, the Plastic Man one shot was amazing, the Fernus story was great and had one of the better Flash moments of the era in it. And it lead into the JL Elite series which is even more underrated than normal Joe Kelly comics.
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Oct 3, 2016 05:29
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I'm just poking holes. Joe Kelly was my first monthly JLA writer, but I have a foggy memory. I remember a story with a monkey. Who was on the replacement JLA during the Obsidian Age? I see Nightwing, Green Arrow, Hawkgirl (because Captain Marvel refused), the Atom, and Firestorm, but I don't recognize the last two.
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Oct 3, 2016 05:36
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Faith and Major Disaster. Neither of them took off at all.
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mind the walrus posted:Faith and Major Disaster. Neither of them took off at all. Well MD's character arc has him try to kill himself and then going to AA. He sort of gets a happy ending.
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Oh he was cool. He just didn't launch as a character anyone wanted to use besides Joe Kelly,.
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Someone is going to dust off MD ten years from now. Him and Damage will wipe the slate clean while the character find of 2025 creates a new universe
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Open Marriage Night posted:What about the super white supremacist story? I remember that being a dud. Well, it was part of the whole Faith thing, so...
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violent sex idiot posted:namor destroyed their earth with a really big comic book science bomb Wasn't that fixed by the end of that whole crossover? What series is this?
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Open Marriage Night posted:I remember a story with a monkey. JLA #91-93, not by Kelly, and well worth forgetting because not very good at all.
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McCloud posted:Wasn't that fixed by the end of that whole crossover? The end of Secret Wars is confusing because now we know there's an 8 month gap since the end and all the current comics, but we don't know exactly what of the pre-SW did or didn't happen in the new universe. Like, apparently Namor and the Illuminati did blow up some planets, but Steve Rogers and Iron Man didn't beat each other to death in the middle of the desert. It's kind of just waiting to see what writers pick and choose to acknowledge. Also those pages are from Squadron Supreme #1.
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TwoPair posted:The end of Secret Wars is confusing because now we know there's an 8 month gap since the end and all the current comics, but we don't know exactly what of the pre-SW did or didn't happen in the new universe. Like, apparently Namor and the Illuminati did blow up some planets, but Steve Rogers and Iron Man didn't beat each other to death in the middle of the desert. It's kind of just waiting to see what writers pick and choose to acknowledge. Well, I think its easier to understand when you realize that some of the people (like Namor apparently) are the guys that were part of the 616 universe that somehow survived the battle world. Others (like Kamila Khan) are new version of the old character and are literally 8 months old and were created when Richards made this new universe. The people that seem to remember events before the secret wars are people that lived through it, survived battle world, and were put back into the new universe. So when they said Namor destroyed some planets, he did that before secret wars. He has not blown up any plants post. So not many people remember that he did it, but there are a few on Hyperions team that lived through it (the speedster lady who blackbolt saved had a flashback to surviving) So they remember what others don't, even if they don't remember it all in great detail as some of the survivors seem to only remember hints of what happened.
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Choco1980 posted:Incidentally, how fast can Eels change himself? Cause it looks like he's outracing Barry Allen Flash with those fingers... Infinitum posted:Not going to post it, as it's apparently an entire issue, but you can read the whole sequence here redbackground fucked around with this message at 16:42 on Oct 3, 2016 |
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Malachite_Dragon posted:
I remember reading the Mad Magazine parody "Plastic Sam" in a reprint back in the 1970s. The original is from 1954 and features the "Plastic Man as clothing" gag as well as a sort of horrifying way to injure him. (Both on the left hand page) 
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Infinitum posted:It is Every bit of this is absolutely amazing.
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redbackground posted:Doug Mahnke drew him changing into something completely different panel-by-panel throughout the entire Kelly run. Similar thing was in his role in Dark Knight Strikes Again, interestingly that comic featured all three of the major companies DC acquired over the years in roles of fair importance; Quality(Plastic Man), Fawcett(Captain Marvel), and Charlton(The Question)
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SonicRulez posted:Every bit of this is absolutely amazing. Greatest part may just be the Mad Hatter reduced to wearing a folded newspaper.
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Rhyno posted:Well MD's character arc has him try to kill himself and then going to AA. He sort of gets a happy ending. Then Superboy Prime snapped his neck.
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Gavok posted:Then Superboy Prime snapped his neck. I don't remember that so I choose to believe that Booker is living happily in his trailer in the south!
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Sigma-X posted:something easily cured like breast cancer? OK I read further, I reacted really strongly. Sorry about that. It's often more tractable but it's by no means an easy cure. Further edit: I deserve about a half-day probation for the original version of the post. Test Pattern fucked around with this message at 17:05 on Oct 6, 2016 |
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