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Neil - Plastic Man Talk @plasticmantalk.bsky.social · Nov 25

Plastic Man Daily Panels!

In this thread I will be sharing 4 panels from a Plastic Man story every day until I can’t any more! From the Golden Age to now, it’ll be bits of Plas throughout history!

Close up of Plastic Man from the cover of Police Comics 1. Not sure who the artist was.

Plastic Man as a slingshot from Adventure Comics 471. Art by Joe Staton, inks by Bob Smith, colors by Glynis Oliver

Plastic Man & Metamorpho fused as a giant robot piloted by Mr. Terrific, from Terrifics 30, Art by Sergio Davila, inks by Vicente Cifuentes, colors by Protobunker

Wonder Woman, Zatanna, Black Canary, and Plastic Man from Black Canary & Zatanna: Bloodspell. Art by Joe Quinones, colors by Dave McCaig

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The Ghost of Jeff Pennington @jeffpennington.art · 2h

And here’s some more art if you’re on the fence about hiring me for something cool:

Digital illustration of pulp comic book and film character The Rocketeer blasting through stormy clouds with his famous jetpack. He is an adult male wearing a gold toned metal helmet with dark lenses and a grated mouth piece, a reddish brown leather jacket with a gold-over chest flap and gold buttons, tan jhodpurs, and black leather gloves and high boots. He is saluting the viewer with one hand and controlling the thrust of the jetpack on his back with the other which is spouting yellow and red flames that turn into a spiraling trail of gray smoke. Art by me, Jeff Pennington

A science fiction space themed homage to Edward Hopper’s 1942 masterpiece “Nighthawks.” Phillies diner is now part of a space station, somewhat eroded by time and mis-care floating overtop of a planet with swirling fluffy clouds and two burning moons near an asteroid belt that stretches past the back window. Space and other planets lie beyond, dotted endlessly with stars. Inside the diner a robot bartender serves a man in a mechanized space suit and cape, a retro futuristic astronaut complete with bowl helmet, and an alien woman in a reddish space suit with a snout and horns who all sit at a triangular bar under bright yellow lights. There are a few hidden characters, and a couple cameos for you to find hidden around the piece as well. Painted digitally by Jeff Pennington for client Jon Anderson.

A black and white digital painting of Captain Jean Luc Picard from Star Trek: The Next Generation dressed as his Holodeck counterpart, hard boiled 1940’s detective Dixon Hill. He wears a classic detective’s outfit of fedora, overcoat, suit and tie. He’s illuminated by a light source coming through Venetian blinds off screen in a mostly black dark room otherwise. “The Big Goodbye by Tracy Torme”, the title of both the episode this is homaging and the fictional book the episode is based on, resides to the right of Picard in stylized lettering. Art and lettering by me, Jeff Pennington.

A test comic page for a short comic titled “Space Ghost: Host No More.” Digital illustration in the style of the classic 60’s Space Ghost cartoon mixed with the psychadelic additions circa Space Ghost: Coast to Coast and Cartoon Planet. Space Ghost breaks through a wall to find Brak left behind by the other villains for not being evil enough anymore. Brak accuses him of coming to ruin his fun and throws a vial of a suspicious liquid into his chest, to no avail. Art by me, Jeff Pennington.

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The Ghost of Jeff Pennington @jeffpennington.art · 2h

It’s #portfolioday again! I’m Jeff, an illustrator and cartoonist with a super versatile style looking for work in comics, publishing, video games, and any and all illustration jobs!

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Digital illustration created for the indie game Poulet Poulet. Poulet, a spherical chicken wearing sunglasses with a red quoff, is posing jauntily in the air overtop of a bustling world filled with enemies hopping around, orbs to collect, treasures to find, and different biomes stretched across its surface. Islands and clouds float in the air improbably all around the sphere. Art by me, Jeff Pennington.

Digital painting based on the Nintendo Switch video game Super Mario Odyssey. Mario, wearing his original inverted color outfit from the first few games he appeared in, is riding a yellow Vespa on a city street in a fish-eye lens perspective. He’s smiling broadly and looking up at the sky, his head tilted to the side and eyes off in the distance. A small iOS messenger word bubble appears below that states “this ur uber, am outside” implying that Mario has texted you this photo and is here to pick you up for Uber. Art by me, Jeff Pennington.

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Neil - Plastic Man Talk @plasticmantalk.bsky.social · 4h

Let’s hope you get all!

Okay maybe just enough that you can handle

Neil - Plastic Man Talk @plasticmantalk.bsky.social · 6h

I’ll be honest, I have noticed within the last year that Plastic Man is back to being written as “the dumb goofy Justice Leaguer no one likes” and I hate it.

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Neil - Plastic Man Talk @plasticmantalk.bsky.social · 7h

Uh um I was never good at theseCLEFAIRY

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Neil - Plastic Man Talk @plasticmantalk.bsky.social · 10h

Jesus Christ

Neil - Plastic Man Talk @plasticmantalk.bsky.social · 19h

That was a weird comic. Also it’s weird that that was Terrifics Plas, but he was still wearing his regular costume.

Neil - Plastic Man Talk @plasticmantalk.bsky.social · 19h

Hmmm, it’d be easy to say Terrifics, and I really do want them together again as a foursome, but that might be cheating. You know what? I wanna see what that Legends Of Tomorrow team he was on is doing. Are we gonna see them again?

Is there a team excluding the League and the Freedom Fighters you’d like to see Plas on?

Neil - Plastic Man Talk @plasticmantalk.bsky.social · 19h

JLA (1997) 17

Art by Arnie Jorgensen

Nothing much ever came from Steel and Plastic Man’s supposed friendship, which is introduced here. I’d have liked to have seen more of that.

Steel, who’s armor is being controlled to toss his hammer through the Watchtower’s hull, is stopped by Plastic Man, who catches the hammer with his body.

Prometheus gets whipped in the nuts by Catwoman.

After all is said and done, Zauriel and Steel talk to one another about just what happened, and what their future’s like. Steel says that after today, he’s “Plastic Man’s best friend.”

A new JLA lineup is fully formed, made up of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman (Hippolyta, for the moment), Aquaman, Green Lantern (Kyle Rayner), The Flash (Wally West), Martian Manhunter, Huntress, Steel, Zauriel, Orion, Big Barda, Oracle, Plastic Man, and friend of the group Catwoman.

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Darci Meadows, Published Author @saintwalker98.bsky.social · 20h

🟠Violet & me wrote this one, taking a look at the many abandoned plot threads, dropped reveals, and weird dangling hooks of Geoff Johns pre-New 52 Green Lantern saga morenopressblog.wordpress.com/tales-of-the...

Tales of the Green Lantern

By Ember Blake and Violet Morningstar When I was reading Green Lantern as a kid it was the biggest comic in the world. Nowadays that feels ridiculous to me, that there was a time when Green Lantern…

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Neil - Plastic Man Talk @plasticmantalk.bsky.social · 22h

Telepathic comic book character who reads the thought bubbles and the narration captions

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You seem to forget that every golfer is pure evil and likes to be as evil and dumb as possible

Neil - Plastic Man Talk @plasticmantalk.bsky.social · 1d

Now that’d be a fight I’d pay to see!

Neil - Plastic Man Talk @plasticmantalk.bsky.social · 1d

If Elongated Man was allowed to just join, why not Plas?

Neil - Plastic Man Talk @plasticmantalk.bsky.social · 1d

Totally! I’m not a fan of Batman being involved in Plastic Man’s origin, or Plas relying on Batman to help him do things, but I love (at least the idea of) Plas on the JLA.
I don’t think he needs to have Batman vouch for him to join the League. I think them just recognizing his talents is enough

I know you're anti-Plas from Batman but would you still want him on the JLA? if so what alternate origin story to his joining would you prefer?

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Neil - Plastic Man Talk @plasticmantalk.bsky.social · 1d

Yellow 🤓

Honestly, probably green or black? Yeah, I’d say green would be a good look on him.

Do you think Plas would look good in any color other then red?

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Neil - Plastic Man Talk @plasticmantalk.bsky.social · 1d

For a good chunk of Plas’ time, he was a perfectly intelligent hero, an FBI agent who often solved murders. He only became a dummy goofball around the time of JLA. That being said, he did get to show some intelligence in JLA’s WW3 arc, planning around Queen Bee’s blindness to red color.

Since most of the time plas is depicted as goofy and a jokester, his intelligence tends to get overlooked. Was there any moment in the comics he was shown to be smarter than he looked?

Plas explains (in a rather rude and crummy manner, he’s such a dick in these stories) that he used to hang with the Red Bee, and there learned a lot about bee-keeping and their behaviors.

Neil - Plastic Man Talk @plasticmantalk.bsky.social · 1d

Now that we’re in the JLA era, let’s do some questions on NGL!

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Neil - Plastic Man Talk @plasticmantalk.bsky.social · 1d

They really XBoned themselves huh

Neil - Plastic Man Talk @plasticmantalk.bsky.social · 1d

Sweeeeeet!

Neil - Plastic Man Talk @plasticmantalk.bsky.social · 1d

In fact, he did :) (Adventure Comics 471)

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Neil - Plastic Man Talk @plasticmantalk.bsky.social · 1d

JLA (1997) 16

Art by Howard Porter

Television reporter Amanda Trellace announces how after the JLA announced its disbanded, they reconsidered and now are looking for new members. Trellace is wearing a distinct outfit, a yellow and black-striped blouse with a red jacket.
It’s very Plastic Man, and I like to jokingly headcanon that Plas actually sold a trademark on his design, explaining why so many clothes and unrelated products look like him.

Electric Blue Superman looks to a crowd of reporters, in a smile and pose that looks really weird, like a late 90’s CGI mocap scene in a pre-rendered cutscene in a video game

Meet the new lineup for the JLA, (clockwise starting from the top): Zauriel the angel, Green Lantern Kyle Rayner, the Hunteess, Superman, Steel, Aquaman, the Flash, Wonder Woman Hippolyta, and Plastic Man.

The villain Prometheus, who broke into the JLA’s new watchtower, explains loudly to Huntress how he’s using hypnotic flashing lights to stop her from attacking him.

I don’t like Prometheus. Hate him, actually. A stupid “Gary Sue” type villain that always is one step because there’s nothing interesting about him.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 2d

So that was Saturday October 11th 2025. Crikey. Another day done, another (more or less) here. So it goes.

(Out this very month in 1948, just 77 years ago, Plastic Man #10, with its delightful cover by the genius that was Jack Cole.)

And so to bed. Sleep well, gentle sentients of Planet Earth.

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Neil - Plastic Man Talk @plasticmantalk.bsky.social · 2d

I remember this!

Neil - Plastic Man Talk @plasticmantalk.bsky.social · 2d

Also, man, I really wish Grant Morrison had read Golden Age Plas. I think they could’ve done okay with that version. At the least, they’d remember Plas hatred of magic and done something fun with it here.

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