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daytonm's review against another edition
4.0
This was a lot of fun! Morrison's a weirdo but as a result this felt really creative and fresh. I found Animal Man's character arc to be pretty effective, and it's cool to see him politicized in the first few issues.
cafedetinta's review against another edition
4.0
Algunas de las historias un poco flojas, pero me ha caído simpático Animal Man y su estilo de vida, intentando compaginar la vida familiar con su vuelta a ser un héroe.
ramonnogueras's review
4.0
Sólo por la historia de El Evangelio según Crafty valdría la pena el tomo, pero el resto es el mejor Grant Morrison que podéis leer, haciendo una cosa que siempre me parece especialmente interesante, que es coger a un personaje de segunda o tercera fila y darle una nueva vida.
Animal Man se mueve a un nivel de calle: tiene una familia y facturas que pagar y no se cobra de superhéroe. Sus poderes son raros porque dependen de los animales que haya cerca. Nadie se lo toma en serio. Y sin embargo, tiene un potencial enorme, en medio de unas historias que muestran el surrealismo marca Grant Morrison.
Un clásico que recomiendo sin reservas.
Animal Man se mueve a un nivel de calle: tiene una familia y facturas que pagar y no se cobra de superhéroe. Sus poderes son raros porque dependen de los animales que haya cerca. Nadie se lo toma en serio. Y sin embargo, tiene un potencial enorme, en medio de unas historias que muestran el surrealismo marca Grant Morrison.
Un clásico que recomiendo sin reservas.
vernip's review against another edition
4.0
RIP Wile E. Coyote.
Yes, he's in this.
No, it's not the fabled Looney Toons crossover with DC.
But duuuude...
Yes, he's in this.
No, it's not the fabled Looney Toons crossover with DC.
But duuuude...
akemi_666's review against another edition
2.0
it's like a postmodern cross between swamp thing and captain planet, but really dumb
jaclynhyde's review against another edition
4.0
An excellent reinvention of a third-tier superhero. This volume is more of a typical superhero comic than the fourth-wall breaking, meta book it becomes later, but you can definitely see the seeds of that at the beginning. The characters are wonderfully written, with Buddy Baker as an atypical superhero who's also a family man and animal-rights activist. There are a few appearances of other DC mainstays (the Martian Manhunter's appearance is delightful), but this book is self-contained enough for anyone to pick up.
radioactve_piano's review against another edition
4.0
I'm not very knowledgeable about comics, so I asked a friend to recommend a starting point. [The few I've read have been because I either liked the movie -- Sin City, for example -- or was given the first collection as a gift -- Y: The Last Man, or Maus.]
I definitely wasn't interested in the Marvel/Vertigo world of Superheroes and villains, but this book was actually pretty good. I don't think I'll get Book 2 any time soon, but I feel a little more in the know about a somewhat obscure character ["obscure" in the sense that he's not, you know, Superman or Batman or someone like that].
A great read for someone who needed a brief break from the "heavy" books but still wanted something of substance. I'm not a vegetarian or an animal activist per se, but I definitely have those tendencies and really liked the character. Interesting, too, was the inclusion of AIDS -- this was penned when AIDS was just starting to become known, and the question of its origins was brought up.
Wonderful little comic with morals and a hero that is easier to relate to than, say, Superwoman.
I definitely wasn't interested in the Marvel/Vertigo world of Superheroes and villains, but this book was actually pretty good. I don't think I'll get Book 2 any time soon, but I feel a little more in the know about a somewhat obscure character ["obscure" in the sense that he's not, you know, Superman or Batman or someone like that].
A great read for someone who needed a brief break from the "heavy" books but still wanted something of substance. I'm not a vegetarian or an animal activist per se, but I definitely have those tendencies and really liked the character. Interesting, too, was the inclusion of AIDS -- this was penned when AIDS was just starting to become known, and the question of its origins was brought up.
Wonderful little comic with morals and a hero that is easier to relate to than, say, Superwoman.
cgpr's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.75
crowyhead's review against another edition
2.0
This was disappointing. Usually I like Morrison's stuff, but I just could NOT get into this story. Parts of it had a lot of promise; I love the idea of a sort of second-rate superhero dealing with things like aspiring to membership in a superhero league. Overall, though, the stories collected here seemed kind of scattershot and lacking focus. It also didn't help that there was a lot of crossover things happening that weren't part of the collection, which made it hard to follow sometimes. I might check out other Animal Man comics if the library gets them, though.