The art and storytelling is worthy of the awards the series has won. What I got right (from the first post) though: Concrete is one heck of a read. Vagabond (autobiographical short story of Chadwick’s attempt to see the world by hitchhiking around the country).Orange glow (Concrete reminisces about his childhood episode of a friend lost in a caving expedition).Sympathy from a devil (Participating in a marine research outing).An armchair stuffed with dynamite (Concrete working as a bodyguard for a popular musician foiling a murder attempt trying to right a wrong).Straight in the eye (rescue of a downed pilot).

A new life (Concrete’s origins story alien abduction escape from the aliens seeking help from the military meeting Dr.Vonnegut, and Larry deepens and gets more complicated rescued) The Transatlantic swim (an attempt at setting a record gone wrong capsized the relationship between Concrete, Dr.Water god (Concrete prototypes his fins and buoyancy tank meets two pesky kids).Lifestyles of the rich and famous (Concrete gets conned into a guest appearance).A stone among stones (Larry is hired Concrete is flown to save trapped miners) Concrete by Paul Chadwick 2 6 14 1-2nd printing (1988.This collection contains 10 stories, from various issues published by Dark Horse: But in “Depths”, Concrete’s origin was that he and a friend were captured by Aliens (similarly in concrete form) and involuntarily became their experimental subjects, transposed to a concrete body. In this earlier post, I wrote that Concrete was “in an avalanche and would have been dead if aliens did not encase his dying body in concrete”. Strangely, I seem to have gotten my facts wrong. Came across this collection of Concrete stories.

Concrete, Volume 1 by Paul Chadwick