Animal Man: The Last Enemy
Dec. 22nd, 2020 01:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)

[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.' )
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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?' )
Animal Man: Consequences
Dec. 17th, 2020 08:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)

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.' )
Animal Man: Secret Origins
Dec. 4th, 2020 03:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)

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.' )
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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.' )