Plastic Man

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I think I've made it pretty clear over the past few years that I'm something of a connoisseur of strange comic book stories. I love comics where things get weird with that sort of cheerful rejection of all logic, where things don't quite add up, but the truth is, I sometimes get to a point where I think I've seen it all. I start to get jaded, and think that nothing can ever match the weirdness tha

The New Teen Titans are doing the time warp again during this week's DC Nation block on Cartoon Network, with the 1960s-obsessed Mad Mod (and his TARDIS-like machine) giving the 2012 teen superheroes a righteous 1990s makeover. Yes, including a mullet or two, and yes, we have a clip under the jump to prove it...

Much as fans are surely enjoying new episodes of Green Lantern: The Animated Series and awaiting the start of the second season of Young Justice in April, DC Nation's creative anthology-style animated shorts have served as the glue that holds Cartoon Network's new program block together...

Tom Kenny is back as DC's most formidable acid-enriched superhero in new Plastic Man shorts set to debut as part of Cartoon Network's DC Nation block on March 3. Reprising his roles in 2006's Plastic Man animated pilot "Puddle Trouble" and several episodes of the recently concluded Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Kenny's approach is a pretty fun departure from his Sponge Bob and Super He

Cosplay: Samuel Lee and Prince Armory's awesome custom armor worn by Carlos M. Blanchard is like Kenner's Legends of Batman action figure line come to life. Creators: Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilkas, who depicted the prophet Muhammad as a dog in 2007, was egged by Karlstad University students while giving a lecture on free speech at the school on Tuesday...

Mattel's DC Universe Classics line will wrap with its 20th wave in a few months, but it's not so much the end of the line as a rebranding shift, with more of the toymaker's 6" superhero figures being released through the DC Comics All-Stars line in 2012...

One of the great things about cartoons like Justice League Unlimited and Batman: The Brave and the Bold has been that they've used the star power of characters like Superman and Batman to shine a light on a few of DC's lesser-known properties...

J. Bone is a real artistic power tool, which is why DC Comics has put him to work on books like Batman: The Brave and the Bold and Super Friends. His style lends itself to bright, kid-friendly designs with a classic feel to them. He definitely knows how to pull off a vintage Darwin Cooke-looking twinkle, but at the same time he always makes his characters look fresh...

Redemption is a tricky thing. How do people really atone for their transgressions? If it's really an eye for an eye, how could someone possibly make up for murder? One of the greatest tropes in superhero comics is the villain-turned-hero. Though the meme showed up here and there in the earlier years of comics, it really kicked in around the "modern era" of the late seventies, when darker