Line #13 ComicBook/AllStarSectionEight

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3	''All-Star Section Eight'' is a comic series created by Creator/GarthEnnis and John [=McCrea=], and published by Creator/DCComics. Part of the "DC You" initiative, it is a SpinOff of Ennis and [=McCrea=]'s ''ComicBook/{{Hitman\|1993}}''.
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5	Based in the Cauldron, Gotham City's Irish district, Section Eight are a bunch of questionably heroic superheroes who occasionally provided aid to hitman Tommy Monaghan back in the day, but have since gone their separate ways. But now former leader Sixpack has experienced a premonition. Something bad is coming, and only he and his team can stop it. And thus he sets out on a quest to rebuild Section Eight.
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8	!!''All-Star Section Eight'' contains examples of:
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10	* TheAlcoholic: As his name implies, Sixpack drinks ''a lot''.
11	* BlessedWithSuck: Friendly Fire, the only member of the team who has a legitimate superpower - he can fire destructive energy blasts from his hands. But they only hit his allies.
12	* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Dogwelder is a guy who spot-welds dogs to criminals.
13	* IdentityAmnesia: After being hit in the head with a mallet while in the middle of very bluntly turning down Sixpack's offer to join Section Eight, Wonder Woman turns into a cheerful, [[ManChild child-like]] [[TheDitz Ditz]] who wants nothing more than to join Section Eight.
14	* MeaningfulName: The team name "Section 8" comes from the military designation for those considered unfit for military service.
15	** It's also a two-fer: Section 8 is also the Department of Housing's low-income rent subsidy program, i.e. the projects.
16	* PuttingTheBandBackTogether: The series opens with Sixpack attempting to get Section Eight back together.
17	* RaceLift: One issue features a rapping African-American SoulBrotha version of ComicBook/ThePhantomStranger. With ComicBook/{{Etrigan}} doing a "feature spot" promoting the TPB editions of Ennis's and [=McCrea's=] run on ''The Demon'', which were out in a new edition at the same time as this comic.
18	* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The team includes a severe alcoholic, a walking mass of internal organs, and a guy who spot-welds dogs to people. Calling them misfits might be an understatement.
19	* WholePlotReference: The implication at the ending that [[spoiler:Sixpack is a hallucination of his mundane-universe self dying of hypothermia in an alley after falling off the wagon]] is a parody of the ''ComicBook/FlexMentallo'' miniseries.
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