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The following contains major spoilers for Plastic Man No More! #4, on sale now from DC Comics.
The heir to one of DC’s strangest legacies is starting with the worst part of it.
Plastic Man No More! #4 marks the final chapter of DC Comics’ latest harrowing Black Label title, with the titular hero seemingly losing his life in one final, brazen attempt to save his son Luke from the same degenerative condition that Plastic Man himself has been suffering. While this might be something of an anticlimactic end where some are concerned, it ultimately opens the door for Luke to escape his father’s shadow once and for all. Or rather, it would if not for the fact that Luke almost immediately embarks upon a career as a thief, just like his father before him.
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Plastic Man No More! #4
Written by CHRISTOPHER CANTWELL
Art by ALEX LINS and JACOB EDGAR
Colors by MARCELO MAIOLO
Letters by BECCA CAREY
Main cover art by ALEX LINS & MARCELO MAIOLO
Variant cover by ALEX ECHMAN-LAWN
Patrick “Eel” O’Brian has been a part of the overarching DC mythos for longer than most of his contemporaries, with his first appearance taking place all the way back in the pages of 1941’s Police Comics #1 in Jack Cole’s “The Origin of Plastic Man.” A small-time crook looking for any payday he could find, Eel was hired to pull off an otherwise ordinary robbery at a chemical factory. Unfortunately, a run-in with the authorities led to a tragic accident, leading to O’Brian’s shocking transformation into DC Comics’ premier elastic superhero – Plastic Man.
Patrick’s son, Luke O’Brian, made his comic book debut as part of the Kingdom Come universe back in 1999’s The Kingdom: Offspring #1 by Mark Waid and Frank Quitely. Inheriting his father’s elastic, shape-changing abilities, Luke quickly made a name for himself as the heroic Offspring. Although Luke was more than happy to follow in his father’s heroic footsteps, his career as Offspring was born more of a desire to prove himself outside the realm of the Plastic Man legacy, largely due to the contentious relationship the two had in Luke’s youth.
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In the years since his debut, Luke has been reimagined numerous times, including for the primary DC Universe. This version of the character believed that his father had abandoned him as a child, not learning that Patrick had been trapped in an inhuman form for years against his own will. While Luke had already made a home for himself as an occasional member of the Teen Titans, this revelation drove him to take a place alongside the rest of The Terrifics, all in a bid to be closer to the father he never really got to know before.
Plastic Man No More! #4 is on sale now from DC Comics.
Source: DC Comics
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