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3.0

Today seems to be bash Pete Milligan day, but it’s entirely accidental I swear. I like him as a creator, but the first half of this book very much feels like a 2000AD writer who doesn’t find the wide open vistas of new kinds of storytelling exhilarating but instead utterly terrifying. It feels reactive and too obviously trying to be wild and creative, but instead feels like it’s just trying to emulate the Grant Morrison run that went before. Thankfully Veitch has something different to say and genuinely feels like he’s relaxing into the possibilities of Animal Man and his powers. It may be more traditional than what had gone before, but it also feels considerably more self assured
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