Everyone should read Art Spiegelman's book on Plasticman and his creator, whose name I'm blanking on at the moment.

Great book (expanded from a New Yorker piece) and I'm completely blanking on the creator too. The main source of my comment about what a long/strange trip Plas had to DC.

Whiny Firestorm? Whichj expalins why DC is relaunching him, again...

Heh. Except, it's not Ronnie anymore. It's a black teenager from Detroit.

Ronnie right now is at the top of the "deadpool"list for the upcoming "Identity Crisis" miniseries.

Okay, just gotta say...

I'm really enjoying Scott Tipton's "Comics 101" articles.

That is all.

I no longer consider Plastic Man a complete joke of a superhero.

Awww, man. The original old Plastic Man was about the coolest superhero ever. (Even Alan Moore subscribes to this theory.) Jack Cole was genius.

Jack Cole was genius

THANK YOU, Hec! The memfault was driving me nuts, and I couldn't get around to googling.

Now I'm earwormed for CCR, except now it's 'Keep on Googling'.

What? You're going to make them suck?

Nah. JLA's doing that all on its own.

Preach it, brother. First, Dennis O'Neill, then Claremont and Byrne have really stunk up the place with their runs in JLA. Next up, Chuck Austen - sheesh. When they announced that they would go with rotating creative teams to tell "one great JLA story", I was expecting much more than this.

Ronnie right now is at the top of the "deadpool"list for the upcoming "Identity Crisis" miniseries.

What are some other good candidates? From the little bit I've seen of the previews for Identity Crisis, it appears that Green Arrow is strongly affected by whoever is in the coffin, and I'm unaware of any close ties between GA and Firestorm.

I'm really enjoying Scott Tipton's "Comics 101" articles.

I really need to check these out. Where was that link again?

I no longer consider Plastic Man a complete joke of a superhero.

Awww, man. The original old Plastic Man was about the coolest superhero ever.

I have to say, I've always though there was something wonderful and quirky about Plastic Man.

First, Dennis O'Neill, then Claremont and Byrne have really stunk up the place with their runs in JLA

Denny O'Neill had a crappy JLA run? How disappointing. I loved his work on The Question.

I have to say, I've always though there was something wonderful and quirky about Plastic Man.

Except he's an obnoxious boob! (Never gotten the PM love.)

I loved his work on The Question.

SEAN! Oh hells yes. That was during my last real intense period of comics buying, and I've got issue 1 through 20 or 30 or so buried in my closet somewhere. I always thought it was a terribly underrated book. The friend who got me hooked on Hellblazer got me hooked on The Question.