Man, the first part of the story “Extinction is Forever.” No slight against the first two chapters (which includes a great bit with Buddy’s daughter Maxine reminiscent of a similar scene in Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing), but “Extinction” is where Animal Man really gets going. “Let me tell you about the weirdest dream I ever had …” So begins the third chapter of Jeff Lemire’s Animal Vs. Man is much more Buddy’s book - Lemire hones and enhances Animal Man before the “Rotworld” crossover to come. 1: The Hunt largely introduced Animal Man Buddy Baker’s supporting cast and set up the direction of the series, Animal Vs. Man, given that Lemire gave us a volume of “traditional” Animal Man before he began to alter things. The change, however, is easier to digest in Animal Vs. Man that Lemire most directly revamps the Animal Man character, revising his origin and making him more specifically Lemire’s Snyder did the same thing right away in Raise Them Bones, presenting a Swamp Thing significantly different than what had come before. Man and Scott Snyder’s first volume of Swamp Thing, Raise Them Bones. There’s a striking similarity between Jeff Lemire’s Animal Man Vol.
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