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Summary: Morrison at his best!
Review: Grant Morrision wrote Animal Man (issues 1-26) from 1988-1990. I was in college during the time, and became a reader around issue 9. I quickly got back issues, though, because of the surprising strength of this series.This 3rd volume collects issues 18-26, and it wraps up one of Morrison's best series (the other being Doom Patrol 19-63). What makes this series outstanding is Morrison's usual trademark "weirdness"; however, unlike the "Invisibles", Animal Man and Doom Patrol have strong and symphathetic characterization-Buddy Baker and his family "seem real" even though this series is in part about the unreality of comic books. AM also has a particulaly strong and poignant ending-again like Doom Patrol. Issues 1-26 form a complete story- the series should have been allowed to end with 26: added issues in a sense were superfluous. Only later with Sandman (allowed to end in 1996) did DC learn when "enough is enough". To sum up: AM and DP represent Morrison at his magical best. Don't get me wrong, Invisibles, JLA and X-Men are entertaining. But I'm hoping he can pull out another white rabbit...
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Summary: Self-serving of Morrison, but all in good fun.
Review: Grant Morrison did a bit of ego-boosting with this series, to be sure, but it's done in a way that still tells a story this is both over-the-top and poignant. Though "suggested for mature readers", the stories don't have much "mature content" and actually read like a nostalgic, but simultaneously post-modern, homage to the Silver Age. It many ways, it was a harbinger for later skewed-retro works like Supreme and the like more than an example of Morrison's later "weirdness for weirdness' sake" works like Invisibles or even the later Doom Patrol issues.
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