I Suspect That Superman Wonder Woman #1 Will Go A Little Something Like This...

Look, I've got no insider sources or special review copy or anything...but I'm willing to bet that Superman/Wonder Woman #1 will go a little something like this:

Wonder Woman shows up to rescue Plastic Man and company from Ra's Al Ghul...but there's that damned Lazarus Pit...

Uh-oh...shouldn't have mentioned Bruce...

No, Superman/Wonder Woman #1 could never be that good, could it? Maybe they'll use it for Man Of Steel 2: Batman Vs. Superman (With A Special Rumored Guest Appearance By Wonder Woman).

Probably not, though.

From Plastic Man #20 (2006), by Kyle Baker...

Friday Night Fights--Shirtless Fighting Style!!

All right, it's time to get serious with Friday Night Fights.

Well, maybe serious is the wrong word.

Plastic Man's girlfriend and adopted daughter are, well, dead. Deceased. No more.

Fortunately, this is the DC Universe (sort of). And so there's an obvious solution--a Lazarus Pit!!

Unfortunately, a Lazarus Pit means you just might come into conflict with...Ra's Al Ghul!!

YESSSSSS!!!!! Shirtless Fighting!!!! Shirtless Fighting!!! Shirtless Fighting!!!! SHIRTLESS FIGHTING!!!!

Yeah!! Butt shot!!

Damn...Ra's is master of shirtless fighting. And, of course...

Uh-oh...never wake Talia!!

Spacebooger knows that "shirtless fighting" is a good excuse to use when your kids walk in on you when...well, you know...

Kyle Baker wrote. drew, inked, colored, lettered, and probably printed, sorted and stapled the greatest shirtless fighting battle ever in Plastic Man #19 (2006)

Now is the time for you to go and vote for my fight. Why??
SHIRTLESS FIGHTING!!!!!!!!!
That's why. So go and vote!!

By Popular Demand--The Death Of Billy Batson!!

Sunday I showed a scene from the last issue of Kyle Baker's Plastic Man series, which used the funeral of Billy Batson (non-canonical, I assure you) to make some points about what super-hero comics should be, and how DC seemed to be going astray. (If you didn't read it, please do--Baker really nailed this one).

But you guys are terribly inquisitive, and when I said not to ask about Billy Batson's death, well, that was just like showing kids a delicious dessert and then telling them they can't have it. And so, of course you did ask.

As always, your wishes are my commands. So now we'll examine the non-canonical, Identity-Crisis-and-Infinite-Crisis-and-other-DC-trends-satirizing death of Billy Batson, during The Edwina Crisis.

Plastic Man's girlfriend, Morgan, and adopted daughter Edwina, are dead. [SPOILER ALERT--they get better later. Lazarus Pit.] And, as seemed to be the case in those days, when you die, you become a Spectre...

Meanwhile, down on Earth...

But...

Oops...

And as we saw, they did get a funeral out of it (along with a bit snark about the new role for an old DC villain...)

And at the end of the final issue, we get a look at what would happen when both Billy Batson AND Captain Marvel are "beyond the fourth wall":

Of course, Baker chose Billy Batson because no comic creators could ever abuse the Marvel Family, as they were such a symbol of innocence, and thus he was the perfect vehicle to make such a satirical point.

Oops. 

You know things are bad when DC outdoes your satirical "they would never do this" example...

From Plastic Man #19 & #20 (2006)