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A Button-Pusher of the Apocalypse (skybard) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-05-12 21:00:00

Entry tags:

char: animal man/buddy baker, char: ellen baker, char: mirror master/evan mcculloch, creator: chas troug, creator: grant morrison, publisher: vertigo comics, title: animal man

Why Ellen Baker Is Awesome.
Also known as: Ellen Baker: She is Awesome.

Recap: Animal Man has suddenly lost his powers. As if this weren't bad enough, Mirror Master shows up and starts to beat the crap out of him on behalf of his ~mysterious shadowy employers~.

You'd think a trained hitman would have some kind of equipment to protect his...er...equipment. And you'd be wrong.

The main emphasis on Animal Man's speech here is also that the only words he's been able to utter to Mirror Master so far are "mmph" and "ooph" and the like, prompting MM to criticise the standard of American education.

And for my next ~~trick~~ post, I promise it won't be Morrison's Animal Man. XD

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	bean_montag 2009-05-12 05:49 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, I loved these books! It's true, Ellen Baker is a badass. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	skybard 2009-05-12 05:53 pm UTC (link)
	I love them to bits. Although I'm missing volume two >_< Need to work on that, heh. ^.^ Ellen Baker is a total badass. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	ravenjade 2009-05-12 07:35 pm UTC (link)
	Awww, this just makes me sad that she's all insecure and stuff in everything post-52 about Kory and Buddy and stuff. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	skybard 2009-05-13 03:14 am UTC (link)
	She is? Aw man. :( (I'm still catching up with the whole Crisis thing XD I'm up to 52 Volume 1 @__@.) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	jlroberson 2009-05-12 08:12 pm UTC (link)
	And it made up for Grant having put her in a very clumsy, gratuitous and cliched "threat-of-rape" scene a few issues earlier where she had to be saved by a guy(not Buddy, a neighbor with a gun). This was McCulloch's first appearance, right? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	skybard 2009-05-13 03:13 am UTC (link)
	And not just any guy - her lazy neighbour who spends all of his life on a deck chair. :\| I did find that a bit ridiculous. Yes, it is. :) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	randyripoff 2009-05-12 11:20 pm UTC (link)
	I heart McCulloch. He's such a cool villain. And yes, I mean villain, and not villian. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	skybard 2009-05-13 03:15 am UTC (link)
	He's awesome :D (Reply to this) (Parent)

	crinosg 2009-05-13 02:08 am UTC (link)
	I just love the look on that dogs face when McCulloch gets tossed out. He's all like "say whaaaat?" (Reply to this) (Thread)

	skybard 2009-05-13 03:16 am UTC (link)
	"Oh, great. First Dad starts acting like cats and rabbits and stuff, and now people are flying. I wonder if the people across the street want a dog..." (Reply to this) (Parent)

	besamim 2009-05-13 07:05 am UTC (link)
	I read a Morrison interview once in which he said that his favourite thing about reinventing Mirror Master as a foul-mouthed Glaswegian was the ability to get words like "slag" past the American DC censors. (Reply to this)