Well, as I said last issue . . this story takes place in the future. 2024 to be exact. Apparently it's in the final days of Animal Man's career. Now that's not to say he's dying or anything. He's losing his contact with the morphogenic field, so . . he won't really have any powers anymore. But that's not to say that Buddy won't survive. However, in this lack of power, and therefore sense of responsibility, Buddy is beginning to appreciate the other things in his life more. Such as family. When Bloodrage and Prismatik capture the rest of the League of Titans, and Buddy has to decide whether to risk his life trying to save them . . he leaves it in Ellen's hands. Well, not entirely. But he does listen to her opinion and concerns. I mean, his only defense against these 2 is a crow-bar and protective padding . . and a helmet. Hence . . the cover. I guess they couldn't put a crow-bar on the cover. However, Ellen does see his side and gives him her blessing. But that doesn't stop him from getting his butt handed to him. Yes he gets the first blow on Bloodrage with the crow-bar, but . . he doesn't really have any defense for Prismatik. Or does he? It seems that before the fight Buddy made a stop at the CDC. There he used his League association to view a top-secret project . . Wildfire. I'm not sure what it is. It's some kind of organism, or amoeba, but . . 'Aside from the secrecy . . Wildfire has the potential as the deadliest weapon in America's arsenal.' It's in a secret lab, in petri dishes. Apparently Buddy just wanted to come in and . . 'He wanted to see if he could hear it sing.' But, with the next issue being the last . . I'm sure we'll find out what that's all about. Maybe it's the end of Animal Man, but . . he's going to become something else. Well I'm sure next issue will answer all our questions. I think Gerry Conway is doing a great job with this mini-series. The character still has a lot of the same feel to him . . as recent series and stories, but . . I think Gerry puts a lot more character development and interaction into his take of things. Also a lot of feeling. If you read my last blog on this book you saw how that one got my head racing. I also enjoy Chris Batista's interpretation of these characters. All in all I think it's a good book. I can't wait to see how it ends . . and see what the future holds for Buddy.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
the Last Days of Animal Man #5 - DC
Well, as I said last issue . . this story takes place in the future. 2024 to be exact. Apparently it's in the final days of Animal Man's career. Now that's not to say he's dying or anything. He's losing his contact with the morphogenic field, so . . he won't really have any powers anymore. But that's not to say that Buddy won't survive. However, in this lack of power, and therefore sense of responsibility, Buddy is beginning to appreciate the other things in his life more. Such as family. When Bloodrage and Prismatik capture the rest of the League of Titans, and Buddy has to decide whether to risk his life trying to save them . . he leaves it in Ellen's hands. Well, not entirely. But he does listen to her opinion and concerns. I mean, his only defense against these 2 is a crow-bar and protective padding . . and a helmet. Hence . . the cover. I guess they couldn't put a crow-bar on the cover. However, Ellen does see his side and gives him her blessing. But that doesn't stop him from getting his butt handed to him. Yes he gets the first blow on Bloodrage with the crow-bar, but . . he doesn't really have any defense for Prismatik. Or does he? It seems that before the fight Buddy made a stop at the CDC. There he used his League association to view a top-secret project . . Wildfire. I'm not sure what it is. It's some kind of organism, or amoeba, but . . 'Aside from the secrecy . . Wildfire has the potential as the deadliest weapon in America's arsenal.' It's in a secret lab, in petri dishes. Apparently Buddy just wanted to come in and . . 'He wanted to see if he could hear it sing.' But, with the next issue being the last . . I'm sure we'll find out what that's all about. Maybe it's the end of Animal Man, but . . he's going to become something else. Well I'm sure next issue will answer all our questions. I think Gerry Conway is doing a great job with this mini-series. The character still has a lot of the same feel to him . . as recent series and stories, but . . I think Gerry puts a lot more character development and interaction into his take of things. Also a lot of feeling. If you read my last blog on this book you saw how that one got my head racing. I also enjoy Chris Batista's interpretation of these characters. All in all I think it's a good book. I can't wait to see how it ends . . and see what the future holds for Buddy.
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just caught up and read the 1st 5 issues today-
ReplyDeletecan not wait to read the conclusion -
this was an overlooked gem of a series
-and hopefully finds a larger audience when the collection is released