Plastic Man stretches into a new miniseries in this exclusive preview
Plastic Man is experiencing a resurgence in the DC Universe after the events of Dark Nights: Metal, joining The Terrifics superteam and gaining his own six-issue miniseries courtesy of writer Gail Simone, artist Adriana Melo, and colorist Kelly Fitzpatrick. Eel O’Brien is trying to piece together the details of his forgotten past, but he ends up caught in a sprawling conspiracy involving an evil organization that has infiltrated the most powerful organizations in the DC Universe. In an industry where male creators are constantly assigned to female superhero characters, it’s refreshing to have a male superhero handled by women in both the creative team and editorial staff. This first issue has shout-outs to female-driven properties like DC Bombshells and DC Superhero Girls, and the book’s female gaze situates Eel O’Brien as a stretchy superhero sex symbol.