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Concrete: Fragile Creatures (TPB of the 1991 four-issue limited series, in black-and-white (the earlier version was in color), plus "Fire at Twilight".The Complete Concrete ( TPB of the original 1987 ten-issue series).
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It received the Harvey Award for Best New Series in 1988, and won Chadwick their Award For Cartoonist (Writer/Artist) for 1989. The series won the Eisner Awards for Best Continuing Series for 19, Best Black-and-White Series for 19, and Best New Series for 1988, and their Best Writer/Artist Award for Paul Chadwick for 1989. Hiring a personal assistant writer and accompanied by a scientist who is assigned to monitor his body, Concrete has a wide variety of adventures. In his new body, Concrete decides to use his tremendous strength, endurance and vision for a series of adventures he never thought of in his previous sedate life. After a prolonged period of scientific tests and examinations, he was allowed to live on his own with the cover story that he was a cyborg constructed by the government.
The series focuses on the life of Concrete, formerly Ron Lithgow, whose brain was involuntarily transplanted by aliens into a hulking artificial body which is made up of a substance that closely resembles concrete.Īs part of the back-story, he eventually escaped and made contact with the US Senator he worked for as a speechwriter. Most show the character wandering in nature, perhaps looking at a flower or some other natural curiosity. In addition to the comic, Paul Chadwick has drawn Concrete in many paintings. The series makes frequent use of thought balloons, showing characters' interior thoughts and feelings. He is constantly breaking telephones and doorknobs, and must hire an assistant, Larry Munro, because his hands are too clumsy to handle a pen. Examples include Concrete breaking objects by sitting on them, or Concrete being shot forward from a braking car, due to the momentum of his large body. He is notably embarrassed at his lack of sexual organs this is often the subject of hurtful jokes thrown his way. An artist at heart, he collects paintings of female nudes. Later, Concrete climbs Mount Everest, becomes involved with a group of hardline environmental militants, and reluctantly agrees to become the spokesperson of a campaign to voluntarily reduce the Earth's population.Ĭoncrete's sexuality is addressed in the series. The hero tries to use his body for noble endeavors, such as helping out on a family farm.
Apart from the aliens (which appear only in original series issue #3, in Concrete's recounting of his origin) and Concrete's own high-tech, artificial, stone body (which includes a host of attendant abilities), there are no supernatural or science-fiction elements to any stories. The eponymous central character is a normal man whose brain was transplanted into a large, stone body by aliens, and who lives an extraordinary life on Earth following his escape. The character's first appearance is Dark Horse Presents #1 (July 1986).
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