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El zoo humano by Grant Morrison

unladylike's review against another edition

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4.0

Morrison's whole run of Animal Man is just as good the second time reading it years later. Proud to own it now.

xsleepyshadows's review against another edition

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4.0

Pretty great read and some of it is a little bizarre, especially The Coyote Gospel chapter.
It's great to see some earlier animal-man and see more of his personality and how he works as a super hero.

dantastic's review against another edition

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5.0

Buddy Baker, aka Animal, is a semi-retired super hero and movie stuntman. One day, he decides to return to super hero-ing full time. How will his wife and kids deal with that?

Animal Man isn't one of Grant Morrison's weirder or well-known runs on a title but it's probably the most enjoyable to read. It's a fun book. Buddy struggles with people mistaking him for other super heroes and laments the quality of the super villains he fights. His son thinks his powers are lame. While Buddy is a super hero, his wife is clearly in charge. She asks him why he didn't ask Superman home for dinner. Funny stuff. I think my favorite part of the book is when The Mirror Master invades the Baker home and Ellen kicks him in the balls.

I recommend Animal Man to fans of fun super hero comics, like Madman and early Spider-Man.

piratekingalex's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

misterfix's review against another edition

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4.0

A bit too 'aww shucks' for me at times but otherwise a great book that deals with often underrepresented themes.

jithinjohn's review against another edition

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funny reflective fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

ria_mhrj's review against another edition

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4.0

The first volume of Animal Man is very interesting - it's episodic but there is a strange sense of something bigger happening, even if I can't come close to guessing what. Maybe Buddy is mad? Oh well, I will be reading more to find out exactly what is happening!

poorlyassembled's review against another edition

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adventurous dark funny
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

fongolia's review against another edition

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4.0

4 stars simply for that Wile E. Coyote in the real world take off. Trippy.

mruddock27's review against another edition

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3.0

I actually enjoyed this more than I probably thought I would. I read this right after my arduous journey through Morrison's run in Batman, and prayed to God that this wasn't as confusing.

It wasn't, it obviously has all the elements of Grant Morrison which you either love or hate, making this a solid 3* for me.