Plastic Man fondly remembers his days as a simple street thug, when people knew his name and respected his talents (even though no one ever respected him). But he’s turning over a new leaf, mentoring the youth, saving old ladies from pick-pockets and younger ladies from kidnappers. Unfortunately, when he meets the kidnappers and realizes this entire episode’s nothing more than a setup? All those leaves flip back over with a vengeance!
Gail Simone is a comic book writer well-known for her work on Birds of Prey (DC), Wonder Woman (DC), and Deadpool (Marvel), among others, and has also written humorous and critical commentary on comics and the comics industry such as the original "Women in Refrigerators" website and a regular column called "You'll All Be Sorry".
One of the cool elements from the last issue was wrapped up in three pages and then it became a Daddy Day Care / Big Daddy / The Nanny issue until it twisted yet again, but only to include more characters about whom I don’t know why I care. Too much writing that doesn’t add much or have enough humor to make a slapstick comic book worth reading and reading and reading through.