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Final Crisis: Ink!

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The last aftermath mini featured Tattooed Man. While not a major player in Final Crisis, he was one of the leads in Submit one-shot and definitely was more significant to the plot than Human Flame or Super Young Team. Nemesis wasn't even in it at all. So how did it turn out? Over the years there have been multiple Tattooed Men in DC comics. This one was created by Geoff Johns few years before Final Crisis in Green Lantern #9. He wasn't treated very seriously there and was more of an excuse to have Hal Jordan and Batman team-up and resolve some of their differences after Green Lantern: Rebirth. While he was killing criminals there wasn't much of an attempt to make him a good guy, so basically a cool looking villain of the week. In Final Crisis Morrison tried to make him a bit more heroic, maybe an anti-hero. How did it work? I'm not certain, I don't think that pages with him were bad, but at the same time I don't feel like anything would be really missed if he wa