Animal Man Vol 1

Todays reviews start off with Animal man Vol 1.

This is written by Grant Morrison and the Art is by Chas Truog, Tom Grummett and Doug Hazlewood.

First the art. It is OK. Nothing that blew me away but definitely serviceable. It is typical late 80's art. Kind of flat with very little shading. The hairstyles drawn will most certainly date the comic as I think it was a rule that every 3rd person needed to be drawn with a mullet back then. If i was going to give this any sort of rating then i would have to say a 6 out of 10.

Writing. Well you all know of the hard on i have for Grant Morrison and my wish that he would just put the ph# of his dealer in one of the letter columns. i mean he doesn't have to come out and say this is where i get the Primo LSD that helps me write this shit. Just a subtle hint in there for those of us who wish to en bide in that pleasure can get a hold of the man. Compared to the last book that i reviewed by him this is far less trippy (thank god my head would quite possible explode if it was more) but it is still amazing. He just knows how to pace a book.

The story was great. It is basically following the life of Buddy Baker, Former superhero now stuntman in California as he is trying to get back into the superhero game. This book follows a lot of liberal causes that i really do not agree with but Grant doesn't let politics really get in the way of great story telling. For his first mission he is hired by a lab because when the lead scientist came in he found all of the monkeys have been let out of there cages and not run away (no that would be far too fucking normal for a Morrison penned book) but have been fused together into a pile of monkeys. So now there is just a mass of monkey arms heads and legs in a giant blob. Truly freaky shit. The middle issue is the trippiest of all as it deals with a Wile E Coyote type character that dies goes to heaven and meets god. I really cannot wait to read more of this.

Pick this up just for pure enjoyment of things that can be done with the comic medium.

TJ