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Warning: Contains spoilers for Plastic Man No More! #1!One of the strangest heroes in DC Comics, Plastic Man may look to have the same powers as Marvel’s Mister Fantastic,but he certainly doesn’t have the brains or the same background. In a new Black Label series featuring this on-again, off-again Justice League member, Plastic Man’s origin gets the detail it deserves. More than that, it seems his death is imminent.
In the preview pages of Plastic Man No More! #1by Christopher Cantwell, Alex Lins, and Jacob Edgar, fans of Plastic Man get the inside scoop on Eel O’Brian’s criminal past. Still showing off his carefree, joking nature, Eel nevertheless also shows his darker side as he tries to rob a jewelry store.
It seems like Plastic Man’s time might be running out. In the description for the series, it’s revealed that this ex-criminal’s cellular damage, the very thing giving him his powers, is going to kill him in the end.
Plastic Man Is Finally Getting the Serious Story He Deserves
Plastic Man’s Powers Will Be His Very Undoing
Plastic Man was famously a criminal before Batman helped Eel turn from his life of crime and seek redemption as a new Justice League hero. Since then, he’s been instrumental in DC lore by helping the Justice League with some of its wilder stories, and he even had a major hand to play in the Injustice Universe.
Plastic Man Goes “Hard-Boiled” in New Noir Series for the Justice League Favorite
Justice League favorite Plastic Man will soon step out in his own four-issue DC Black Label, where he will face his mortality for the first time ever.
While he’s often considered a Justice League Z-lister, his powers practically know no bounds. Plastic Man can become and do anything, and his plasticity means he can regenerate with one of the best healing factors in comics history. However, that plasticity is his very undoing. The very chemical compound that is contributing to the breakdown of his normal human DNA is slated to continue breaking him down until there’s nothing left.
Will Plastic Man Bend and Break Under the Pressure?
Plastic Man No More! #1 Variant Cover by Chris Samnee
Plastic Man’s past is catching up to him. Even though he’s found redemption as a Justice League hero, it seems his crooked past still haunts him in Plastic Man No More! More than that, his son is going to make an appearance, revealing a much more complicated side to the Justice League’s good version of the Joker. It appears the series seeks to ask the question: just who is Plastic Man when his powers aren’t his identity?
Plastic Man No More! will be taking Eel O’Brian to places fans have never seen – in his past, detailing his criminal background, and in his future, as he struggles against death and tries to reconcile with his son. Maybe the jokes will finally fizzle out, and maybe Plastic Man will find some way to shape himself to fit into this new box that is quickly closing in on him. Or maybe this iconic hero will have finally stretched himself past his limit.
Plastic Man No More! #1 is available now from DC Comics!
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