Part man, part ... rock? Over seven feet tall and weighing over a thousand pounds, he is known as Concrete but is in reality the mind of one Ronald Lithgow, trapped inside a shell of stone, a body that allows him to walk unaided on the ocean's floor or survive the crush of a thousand tons of rubble in a collapsed mineshaft ... but prevents him from feeling the touch of a human hand. These stories of Concrete are as rich and satisfying as any in comics: funny, heartbreaking, and singularly human. Depths, the first in a series of collections reprinting the classic early Concrete stories along with never- before-collected short stories, includes the Eisner-nominated Orange Glow and Vagabond, Paul Chadwick's autobiographical account of a cross-country hitchhiking trip.
Being a celebrity has its benefits...and its costs. Due to his status as the world's most unusual travel writer—being a thousand pounds of walking, talking rock will do that—Concrete is approached by a group of radical ecowarriors to see firsthand and write about their efforts to save old-growth forest. What begins as a lark soon turns into a harrowing struggle, and Concrete must decide whether to dispassionately observe or to join these people who would risk anything, even life itself, to save the planet. Called the best comic being published by anyone, anywhere, Paul Chadwick's critically acclaimed Concrete is at once rousing fantasy and grounded reality, as thought provoking and challenging as it is entertaining. Think Like a Mountain collects the 1996 Parents' Choice Award-winning series, along with bonus short stories, some collected here for the first time.