What makes Animal Man so amazing?

[theboychild]

Before Morrison's work became dense and often confusing, he brought out Animal Man which is much more accessible, but has a lot of the same mad meta-fiction ideas which make him great. It's also possibly Morrison's most emotional work for me.

As Ilan said, the first four issues are fairly standard, but issue 5 (The Coyote Gospel) is when you first get a glimpse of real greatness.

The art is merely functional though. It doesn't look good, but the storytelling is fine, so it doesn't get in the way. It's a shame that the definitive Animal Man artist - Steve Dillon - only came along after Morrison left.

Totally agree about the first few issues, but I'm excited to read Coyote Gospel!

[theboychild]

Before Morrison's work became dense and often confusing, he brought out Animal Man which is much more accessible, but has a lot of the same mad meta-fiction ideas which make him great. It's also possibly Morrison's most emotional work for me.

As Ilan said, the first four issues are fairly standard, but issue 5 (The Coyote Gospel) is when you first get a glimpse of real greatness.

The art is merely functional though. It doesn't look good, but the storytelling is fine, so it doesn't get in the way. It's a shame that the definitive Animal Man artist - Steve Dillon - only came along after Morrison left.

Also, how's Morrison's run on Batman? Any good?

[Ilan Preskovsky]

Also, how's Morrison's run on Batman? Any good?

On the whole, yeah, definitely. It's a very bombastic take on Batman that's usually a lot of fun. My only issues with it are that it introduced Damian (Morrison uses him well but generally I am decidedly not a fan) and it had a bit of a bummer of an ending. But, yeah, it's overwhelmingly good, if very long.