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kingrockwell ([info]kingrockwell) wrote in [info]scans_daily,
@ 2009-07-29 19:38:00

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Current music:Sparks ~ "This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us"
Entry tags:char: animal man/buddy baker, char: ellen baker, char: maxine baker, char: starfire/koriand'r, creator: chris batista, creator: gerry conway, publisher: dc comics, title: animal man

Hey guys, guess what book I'm dropping!


Which one bothers me more, that Ellen's calling Buddy on shit she'd have learned to deal with years ago, or that the shit she's calling on him has never been one of Buddy's things since, well, fucking ever?

It gets worse!

(sorry this scan is bigger and still looks shitty. this is why i don't like using my own scans)

I'm-- I'm really beside myself with anger right now. I found it jarring to find Buddy fighting supervillains to begin with when this mini started, but to completely change his role as a superhero only to set up fucking this is infuriating! Family always came first for Buddy! And Maxine, dammit, Maxine was supposed to grow up to be Animal Girl. :( :( :(

There's more bullshit with Cliff who's grown up to be a workaholic lawyer to be like his dad, but Conway essentially bulldozes all of Buddy' relationships with his family (which is what made him worth reading to begin with!) so he can give us this:

Fuck this book. You can see what I'm guessing might be Prismatik coming in on the last panel to beat them up, well let her have him! I don't give a shit anymore, I'd rather save the money for food.

And here I was gonna come on here to fanwank about the League of Titans (Dick's Nightwing again, and hardly looks the mid-to-late forties he should be, discuss) and the really poor color consistency (Clark' eyes can decide if they're blue or green (i almost wanted to think it was Kon, since it would've been fun if he got Lex's eyes, but no dice), Kory's eyes being yellow, and Cliff going blond sometime in the skipped fifteen years), but the book had to come and along and distract me, by sucking.

I'll give it one thing, Chris Batista brings it pretty fierce, but even he can't save this sinking ship.


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[info]werehawk
2009-07-30 12:30 am UTC (link)
Well, Conway did say he thought of this story with a generic any superhero and they gave him Animal Man. Too bad he didn't do any research.

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[info]daningram
2009-07-30 12:40 am UTC (link)
What's the point if the story can be applied to any ol' hero? You'd think he would have at least adapted it to Animal Man.

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[info]kingrockwell
2009-07-30 01:00 am UTC (link)
If I'd known that from the start, I wouldn't even have bothered with this shit! Why the hell would he do that instead of trying to make it fit the character he ended up writing?

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[info]werehawk
2009-07-30 01:45 am UTC (link)
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=20207

Not to make you madder but here is the interview. His pitch is in the first paragraph.

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[info]kingrockwell
2009-07-30 02:02 am UTC (link)
Not at all, thanks for the link.
From what he says here, it looks like one of the major mistakes he made was ending his research at the end of Morrison's run. When Conway can write the thing off as "more interested in deconstructing the superhero comic in general than in developing Buddy Baker as a character", he obviously didn't get far enough into it. And the whole thing about liking Buddy in the Silver/Bronze Age because he was a regular guy thrust into superherodom seems to inform his take a lot more than anything Post-Crisis, where Buddy's barely even a superhero so much as a super-powered animal right activist.

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