History Comicbook / Concrete

* HotScientist: Maureen.

* {{Asexuality}}: Maureen starts out seeming to be this, apparently totally uninterested in romance or sex. She briefly responds to [[spoiler:Larry when they are adrift in a life raft in the Atlantic,]] but seems to have forgotten afterward. [[spoiler: 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.

* OrganicTechnology: Concrete's body could be this, as despite being partially mechanical, it regenerates itself, even in the case of a leg almost totally blown off the main body. The alien ship in "Strange Armor" uses this to a greater degree than was shown in Concrete's original origin story, with a broken wall panel revealing ''flesh with an eye in it'' alongside more traditional wires and circuitry. It also looks like a giant jellyfish when it leaves, rather than the more traditional mechanical version in the first telling.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Concrete's body starts growing horns that eventually split into antlers. Eventually he breaks them off, and thereafter he has to sand them down to keep them from overgrowing. He offhandedly compares the process to shaving, and then abruptly asks Maureen if he has just gone through puberty.

Take the mind of a sensitive political speechwriter, put him in the body of a slightly scaled-down Ben Grimm from the ComicBook/FantasticFour, 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.