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Concrete (Comic Book)
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Take the mind of a sensitive political speechwriter, put him in the body of a slightly scaled-down Ben Grimm from the Fantastic Four, and you have Paul Chadwick's Concrete. This series has run on and off since the mid 80's, and while it has never been a massive seller, it never quite goes away, with a small but solid core of dedicated readers. The series is known for Chadwick's realistic while still slightly stylized (and occasionally bizarre) art, and his elegant, musing, introspective writing.Ron Lithgow is a political speechwriter who, while on a camping trip with a friend, is abducted by aliens and their brains are removed from their bodies and placed in the alien's bodies. He is able to escape (though his friend doesn't make it out), and returns to civilization. Contacting the senator who he works for, he is sent to be studied by government scientists, led by Maureen Vonnegut. Eventually, he tires of the testing and wishes to rejoin the world to whatever degree he can. Unwilling to admit to the existence of extraterrestrials, the government presents him as the lone survivor of a cyborg program, his identity classified. With Maureen still employed to continue researching what else there is to find out about him, Ron hires Larry Munro as an assistant to help him navigate a world that has suddenly grown much smaller and more fragile, but at the same time much larger and more accessible to his strong, tough, indefatigable body.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); }) | |
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Adaptational Villainy: In Concrete's original origin story, Stamberg the CIA agent in charge of his "case" is portrayed as fairly reasonable. The worst he ever gets is in "Fragile Creature", where he threatens to ruin Maureen's career if she continues corresponding with a fringe scientist, but this is at least partly justified by the nature of his needing to keep a lid on Concrete's actual origin as an alien body, rather than a human-created cyborg. In the "Strange Armor" retelling of his origin, Stamberg is much more villainous, trying to turn Concrete into a covert operative and killer, eventually kidnapping Maureen and threatening her life to force him to cooperate. | |
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Asexuality: Maureen starts out seeming to be this, apparently totally uninterested in romance or sex. She briefly responds to Larry when they are adrift in a life raft in the Atlantic, but seems to have forgotten afterward. She also responds rather enthusiastically when her ex-husband shows up. Completely thrown out during the "Fragile Creature" storyline, where she has a relationship with another scientist. "The Human Dilemma" takes her right back into asexuality where she admits (while drunk) that she loves Ron and his lack of a sexual nature is a part of that. | |
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Art Evolution: Concrete's head is a bit shorter and wider than when the series first began. | |
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