Buddy "Animal Man" Baker's first movie

[arbre_rieur]

Buddy Baker stars in TIGHTS, an independent film about a washed up former superhero.

Comments

[gerardotejada]

Lemire is one of those authors of DC you have to support, the others beign Cornell and Snyder.

[jlbarnett]

I haven't been at all impressed with this book

[benuben]

You know, you should put a little context between pages. On one hes trying to get a job and next one, hes in hospital for some reason (if thats folowing page, then it was propably edited by the same people, who did Daredevil).

I wonder whats going on with Swamp Thing.

[benuben]

Also, I have hard time believing such movie would exist 6 freaking years, after first superheroes started working in public.

[mrstatham]

Why? You think movies about organised crime and prohibition and big gangsters didn't pop up at exactly the same time actual gangsters were operating? Or are you saying that it shouldn't have taken six years to appear?

[benuben]

Are you really comparing organized crime (which was there in some form even before that) to people with super powers? And again its SIX YEARS. People should still be like "Holy shit, the dude is flying!" As much as I hate the unbelievebly cliche "aaah a guy in costume help me" thing, that Geoff Johns is pulling out of his ass in Justice League, it is still more believeble than "ah, a meta-humans fighting, sure, whatever, whats on Discovery?". Which is something I would buy in old universe, since superheroes existed there since WW II.

Speaking of which, did they really erased Justice Society, just so they could make people be more surprised? Really?

Just saying, isnt it strange making a movie about retired superhero, when there havent even been any retired superheroes? This movie trys to potray it like if he was superhero for some time, not 4 years. How do people even know whats gonna happen to retired superheroes?

The only way I would buy this movie (you know what I mean), is if takes place in a possible future and the goal of the movie is to tell people, that one day, these guys will have to retire and you should threat them with respect or something like.....

Am I seriously doing a review of a movie, that doesnt even exists? I am such a sad person.

[razsolo]

Animal Man and Swamp Thing are my two favourite comics at the moment that I didn't expect to like as much as I do...I'm not 100% sure about the insertion of this story into the middle of everything else that's going on, but I do like the parallel between Buddy's character in the film and Buddy himself.

Also, reading this issue digitally? Very cinematic! Good design work there! :)

[mrstatham]

The thing is, it serves as a nice catch-up story to sum up things so far, and it allows for the main artist on the series to catch up on his later issues without too much bother. The parallel between the character in the movie and Buddy is pretty much the point.

[eyz]

Gotta love what Lemire's been doing with the book!
The rightful successor to the ol'Animal Man from the 80s^^