Plastic Man #2

DC Comics
Plastic Man #2
By Koppy McFad
January 19, 2004 - 15:18

Publisher(s): DC Comics
Writer(s): Kyle Baker
Artist(s): Kyle Baker
Cover Artist(s): Kyle Baker
32 pages, color, $2.95

Kyle Baker really stretches his comedic talents in this issue as Plastic Man's boss in the FBI orders him to take on a sexy, new female partner to track down suspected murderer, Eel O'Brien-- who, as reader are aware, is Plastic Man himself. Meanwhile, Plastic Man's erstwhile sidekick, Woozy decides that the only way to be taken seriously as a partner is to become a superhero.

The laughs come every panel and are surprisingly varied, from the slapstick to the subtle, from Plastic Man offering to serve as a woman's bicycle seat to the pictures in Eel O'Brien's wallet. Very few of the jokes require an extensive knowledge of comic-book history or of the industry, making this title a welcome relief from all those other comedy books on the stands that are mostly just parodies of other comic books. Hopefully, new readers will also be attracted by this originality.

Baker shows you don't have to churn out ultra-realistic, highly-detailed artwork to produce a gorgeous comic-book. The panels in this comic just scream to be transformed into a high-quality cartoon. If the quality of this title can be maintained, Plastic Man could indeed be one of the best books of the year.

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