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A review by dtier
Animal Man by Grant Morrison 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition Book Two by Grant Morrison
5.0
I've read this comic slowly over last year and the start of this year, and I've grown to like it more and more. I started reading Morrison's Animal Man because I wanted to read a comic that related to animal activism and explore the place of animals in the world, and in this sense, I was let down by this second book. It did cover that sort of topic for a while, but then it replaced it with something different, something that was surprisingly equally enjoyable.
I found a lot of similarities in this comic to Glass Town by Isabel Greenberg, a radically different and modern book about the lives of the Brontes and the imaginary world they made. What was similar are the questions they ask, about the place of the creator and the power of fiction. I want to say that Morrison's portrayal of the topic came across as pretentious, because (without spoiling anything) it did at times, but there was something loveable, clever, and self-aware about how he examined fiction's place and its limitations.
I'm disappointed I'm finished with this series. Buddy Baker "Animal Man" has become one of my favourite comic book characters. I know Jeff Lemire's does continue on the series, but those comics don't appeal to me, look too bloody and edgy. Part of me hopes Morrison will return to Buddy someday, and part of me is just happy with the way this series ended.
I found a lot of similarities in this comic to Glass Town by Isabel Greenberg, a radically different and modern book about the lives of the Brontes and the imaginary world they made. What was similar are the questions they ask, about the place of the creator and the power of fiction. I want to say that Morrison's portrayal of the topic came across as pretentious, because (without spoiling anything) it did at times, but there was something loveable, clever, and self-aware about how he examined fiction's place and its limitations.
I'm disappointed I'm finished with this series. Buddy Baker "Animal Man" has become one of my favourite comic book characters. I know Jeff Lemire's does continue on the series, but those comics don't appeal to me, look too bloody and edgy. Part of me hopes Morrison will return to Buddy someday, and part of me is just happy with the way this series ended.