arbre_rieur: (DC Nation)arbre_rieur ([personal profile] arbre_rieur) wrote in [community profile] scans_daily,
@ 2011-09-07 11:03 pm UTC
Entry tags:char: animal man/buddy baker, creator: jeff lemire, creator: travel foreman, title: animal man


Four pages from ANIMAL MAN 1...



Since we last saw him, there have been some changes in Buddy Baker's life. Between his superhero and activist careers, he's turned into something of a icon for young hipsters in America. That position, in turn, has provided him the opportunity to begin a career as an actor in independent films. It's not something he actively sought out, but that's where he finds himself today nonetheless.

Oh, Maxine can't have pets because if Buddy spends too much time with an animal, he'll start bonding with it, which would negatively affect his connection to all other animals.

In sleep, Buddy has a disturbing dream, where he and Maxine are being chased by what she describes as "the bad things that dress as men. The hunters."





That's when he wakes up. It turns out things aren't peaceful in the waking world either, though. Ellen isn't in bed, and he hears her voice call him out onto the lawn; there's a situation.



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blue_bolt: Fat Watcher (pic#764835)

Names to Run Away from Really Fast


[personal profile] blue_bolt
2011-09-08 06:40 am UTC (link)
The Rot in the Red.
The Flesh Made Sickness.

Okay, so if Plant Thing is the Green, then these things are a corruption of Animal Man's morphogenic field concept. As for the Flesh Made Sickness, I don't quite get that - Sickness Made Flesh makes more sense to me.

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icon_uk: (Sonny Strait Nightwing)

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[personal profile] icon_uk
2011-09-08 07:02 am UTC (link)
The Red, as an animal based equivalent to the Green, has been around as a concept in Animal Man for quite a while.

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eightleggedbeast: (freedom for to)

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[personal profile] eightleggedbeast
2011-09-08 12:04 pm UTC (link)
It annoys me a little, because blood isn't always red in animals. Most animals are insects :(

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[personal profile] crabby_lioness
2011-09-08 01:19 pm UTC (link)
It's his perception, and his blood is red.

If he were a biologist things might be different.

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eightleggedbeast: (freedom for to)

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[personal profile] eightleggedbeast
2011-09-08 02:54 pm UTC (link)
No, no - not in the dream. The actual morphogenic field in canon for animal life is the red.

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icon_uk: (Sonny Strait Nightwing)

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[personal profile] icon_uk
2011-09-08 09:12 pm UTC (link)
I think the Red has self-identified by that name.

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bruinsfan: (cartoon me)

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[personal profile] bruinsfan
2011-09-09 12:05 am UTC (link)
By number of species, but I believe various worms actually outdo them in terms of percentage of total biomass.

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eightleggedbeast: (freedom for to)

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[personal profile] eightleggedbeast
2011-09-09 12:07 am UTC (link)
'Worms' are very polyphyletic, with a great variation in anatomy and form - do you mean nematodes, annelids, other?

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eightleggedbeast: (freedom for to)

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[personal profile] eightleggedbeast
2011-09-08 12:05 pm UTC (link)
(IT SHOULD BE THE BEIGE)

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sherkahn: (Shere Kahn)

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[personal profile] sherkahn
2011-09-08 12:39 pm UTC (link)
It's his version of the Grey.

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[personal profile] lonewolf23k
2011-09-08 02:52 pm UTC (link)
"Flesh Made Sickness" implies a corruption of the Flesh.

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[personal profile] kamino_neko
2011-09-08 04:01 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, this.

'Sickness Made Flesh' is an incarnation of disease.

'Flesh Made Sickness' is a perversion of an incarnation of life.

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