She lived with monsters

[arbre_rieur]

Three pages from Doom Patrol #13, which is an Elasti-Woman spotlight issue...





She uses her pictures to fine-tune her appearance.

Comments

[icon_uk]

BTAS Clayface was a shapshifting actor though, so the comparison works better.

(In the comics, Clayface 1 was an actor, but had no powers, Clayface 2 and 4 had the shapeshifting powers, but weren't actors)

[biznizzonpeyote]

So she was born from the Chief's nano-pool that the Candlemaker used to create HIS body back at the end of Morrison's run? Wow, when Giffen meant "Everything is continuity", he really meant it.

Though in hindsight, this was actually foreshadowed pretty good; she had something explode in her hand and later it was fine, even before she got her head vertically sliced.

Also, yeah, the cover made me think "Crazy Jane" before Rita too...

[kamino_neko]

Carlo's got shapeshifting powers now, too - not sure when that happened. Payne's got the same powerset as the rest of the Clayfaces, too, as of Cry For Justice. It's to the point that I'm not sure if most of the writers realise there's something like 5 Clayfaces at large.

[biznizzonpeyote]

Yeah, from what I remember, Karlo was pissed that he was the only Clayface without any kind of power, so he gathered together the members of the Mud Pack and duplicated their powers into himself, making him the best one out of them all.

And people say that Silver Age Batman was weird...

[icon_uk]

The Mud Pack story was the one that gave him powers, but it didn't give him mimicking powers, it made him an acidic, protoplasmic being who could alter his shape, but not with enough control to take on new appearances or the like.