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| Cover by Travel Foreman, Lovern Kindzierski |
Animal
Man Vol. 1: The Hunt (2012)
Writer:
Jeff Lemire
Penciller:
Travel Foreman
Inker:
Jeffrey Huet, Daniel Green
Colorist:
Lovern Kindzierski
Letterer:
Jared K. Fletcher
I’ve
been excited to see the release of the New 52 trade paperbacks recently. I’m probably
just lazy but I find reading trade paperbacks so much easier. In my quest to
read as many comic book as possible, issues often get lost in the shuffle or
neglected so for certain series, I purposely wait for the trade paperback
releases (I’m doing that now with AvX so shh, don’t
spoil me). I ended up doing this with Animal Man, though I have read the
first issue and enjoyed it.
Animal
Man, along with Swamp Thing, has probably been the most popular and acclaimed
of the New 52 by my fellow comic book friends. It’s quite easy to see why: they
are both refreshing, dark, mythic, and often terrifying books. The stakes are
incredibly high and our heroes are terribly vulnerable. Both Animal Man and
Swamp Thing make the reader feel as if the negative circumstances could
actually happen in real life and then we would be totally boned.
