Entry tags:
- char: amanda waller,
- char: animal man/buddy baker,
- char: black canary/dinah drake,
- char: cheshire/jade nguyen,
- char: cyborg/vic stone,
- char: darkseid,
- char: deadman/boston brand,
- char: etrigan/jason blood,
- char: firestorm/jason rusch,
- char: firestorm/ronnie raymond,
- char: green arrow/oliver queen,
- char: green lantern/john stewart,
- char: green lantern/sentinel/alan scott,
- char: hawkgirl/shayera hol,
- char: hawkman/katar hol,
- char: john constantine,
- char: madame xanadu/nimue inwudu,
- char: metamorpho/element man/rex mason,
- char: superboy/kon-el/conner kent,
- genre: solicitations,
- ns: news,
- publisher: dc comics
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alicemacher2020-12-22 01:44 pmEntry tags:
- char: animal man/buddy baker,
- char: booster gold/michael jon carter,
- char: martian manhunter/j'onn j'onzz,
- char: metamorpho/element man/rex mason,
- char: psycho-pirate/roger hayden,
- char: vixen/mari jiwe mccabe,
- creator: chas troug,
- creator: doug hazelwood,
- creator: grant morrison,
- publisher: dc comics,
- title: animal man,
- trigger warning: suicide/self harm
Animal Man: The Last Enemy
[This is] where the revenge narrative kicks in. So does [Animal Man], in Hollywood action-hero fashion, grab the nearest weapons and go on a rampage until he kills the man responsible? Does he pull a Hamlet and contemplate the best course of action while pondering the mysteries of existence? Does he, like the Punisher, become a psychopathic vigilante with a cool shirt? Does he act like I would and cry and curl up into a fetal position for a few days? Or does he seek redemption?
All of the above.
-- Timothy Callahan, Grant Morrison: The Early Years (Sequart, 2012), 100
Warning for self-harm and contemplated suicide (thus my once again not posting the cover as a preview).
( 'It doesn't make any sense. Death never makes sense.' )
alicemacher2020-12-20 07:36 pmAnimal Man: At Play in the Fields of the Lord / A New Science of Life
The third act, so to speak, of Morrison's run begins with the famous "metafictional peyote trip" two-parter. (Note that Morrison wrote this before they began exploring psychedelic drugs in real life.)
( 'What if God's reality [...] what if it's so bad that he had to imagine us to help make his life bearable?' )
alicemacher2020-12-17 08:30 pmAnimal Man: Consequences
Warning for graphic depiction of cruelty to animals. (Thus my not posting the issue cover as a preview this time.)
( 'Everything is connected. Certain events have certain consequences.' )
alicemacher2020-12-04 03:07 pmAnimal Man: Secret Origins
This issue should not be confused with Morrison's Animal Man story in the actual Secret Origins series.
Warning for gore.
( 'You are nothing. A minor character. Old-fashioned and melodramatic. Best forgotten.' )
alicemacher2020-11-25 07:34 pm[Animal Man] Secret Origins: The Myth of the Creation
This story takes place between Issues 9 and 10 of Morrison's Animal Man run. It's the prologue to the second act, so to speak.
( 'There's something touching about the blind faith with which they greet the impossible.' )
