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Animal Man (1988-1994)
Jan. 14th, 2023 04:11 pmSo, Ixo had a pile of Animal Man comics they were looking to offload and I was interested, because it was pre-Vertigo stuff from before I was allowed to read Vertigo anyway. I’m reasonably certain I’ve read a few of these stories collected in trades, but I’m going to need to dig through the boxes and connect up what I already had with what I just got. To wit:
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Overall: This was entertaining to read (or, in a few cases, re-read—I think I have a few of these stories in trade, but I need to go digging through the Vertigo boxes to see), but it’s not actually a great run of comics. Animal Man is a shitty superhero and a crappy father pretty much throughout; and “there’s something weird going on with his powers” is far and away the most common plot element and it gets very tiring. The fact that the nature of the world realigned itself multiple times in the 6-year run because the writers ignored each other’s worldbuilding and characterization doesn’t help for a straight read-through, either. Of the great pre-Vertigo/Vertigo titles, there’s a reason nobody’s clamoring to have Animal Man get his own TV show.
*My dad was running the Production department at DC, and the company doing the computer color separations was based in Ireland, and flew us out to wine and dine him. While he did a bunch of business meeting and my mom and sister went shopping, I was parked in front of one of the coloring computers, where I colored the first page of Animal Man #77 and a page of a Star Trek annual. I apparently did a good-enough job, because they used my work, including a mistake I made on McCoy’s face.
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Overall: This was entertaining to read (or, in a few cases, re-read—I think I have a few of these stories in trade, but I need to go digging through the Vertigo boxes to see), but it’s not actually a great run of comics. Animal Man is a shitty superhero and a crappy father pretty much throughout; and “there’s something weird going on with his powers” is far and away the most common plot element and it gets very tiring. The fact that the nature of the world realigned itself multiple times in the 6-year run because the writers ignored each other’s worldbuilding and characterization doesn’t help for a straight read-through, either. Of the great pre-Vertigo/Vertigo titles, there’s a reason nobody’s clamoring to have Animal Man get his own TV show.
*My dad was running the Production department at DC, and the company doing the computer color separations was based in Ireland, and flew us out to wine and dine him. While he did a bunch of business meeting and my mom and sister went shopping, I was parked in front of one of the coloring computers, where I colored the first page of Animal Man #77 and a page of a Star Trek annual. I apparently did a good-enough job, because they used my work, including a mistake I made on McCoy’s face.
