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Category: The Last Days of Animal Man

  • The Last Days of Animal Man (2009) #6

    The Last Days of Animal Man (2009) #6

    Umm. Huh. I really don’t know where to start, given how Last Days of Animal Man ends. Conway, at the end, makes it something incredibly different, even for an imaginary story, inserting a lot of reality into it, raising a lot of questions, even if the life and death stuff seems like it’s out of…

  • The Last Days of Animal Man (2009) #5

    The Last Days of Animal Man (2009) #5

    No way, there’s a surprise in store for the last issue? Conway really hypes his new villains here, as they take out the League of Titans–or is it the League or Justice–lots of typos in Animal Man, apparently, as the year keeps jumping around (from 2018 to 2024 with something in between). I’m almost wondering…

  • The Last Days of Animal Man (2009) #4

    The Last Days of Animal Man (2009) #4

    One of those way too quick issues, with Conway resolving his Animal Man and Starfire making out cliffhanger in a couple pages to give the reader a long action issue. It’s not a bad action issue–though I imagine if I were reading it monthly I’d be a little upset I got done reading it in…

  • The Last Days of Animal Man (2009) #3

    The Last Days of Animal Man (2009) #3

    Okay, with issue three, Conway gives us the full ground situation–2018, sort of sequel to the Infinite Crisis spin-off tie-in thing with Animal Man and Starfire (I don’t know, I’m guessing), with the Justice League replaced by the League of Titans, which is a lame name, but does it mean Superman is a grown-up Superboy?…

  • The Last Days of Animal Man (2009) #2

    The Last Days of Animal Man (2009) #2

    Now Conway really gets into that eighties vibe with a lengthy expository origin of the villain (of the issue or of the series, the second Mirror Master’s daughter–I didn’t know there was a second Mirror Master) and abandons Animal Man for a bit. It’s kind of rough going, but taken with a gulp of that…

  • The Last Days of Animal Man (2009) #1

    The Last Days of Animal Man (2009) #1

    Old time hockey. Sorry, Slapshot reference. Animal Man isn’t exactly old time comic books (Conway’s peak was the early-to-mid-eighties, so not exactly old time), but it’s close. It’s a solid DC Comics limited series, something I always used to rely on. Under the Didio administration, they’ve failed for the most part, at least as far…