It was plain old generic superhero comics, without any interesting or fresh ideas boiling under the surface the art was occasionally very creepy and weird, and kept my eyes from drifting up from the page to the carpet or wall paper, but it was inconsistent (seven artists were involved in the volume), and rarely inspired enough to make up for the overall deficiencies of the comic.
Rather, I just found the whole endeavor repetitive (of older, better comics I read as a teenager), and bloodless and cold.
Granted, I started the series with volume 3 instead of volume 1 (my only previous encounter with New 52 Animal Man being this summer's annual), but what I found wanting about it had absolutely nothing to do with not being able to follow the plot or recognize and understand the characters and their conflicts (all of which were pretty similar to how I remember them from 1990s Vertigo stories) Lemire and Snyder do a fine job of making this volume stand on its own and serve as an easy enough entry point. And it's written by Jeff Lemire, a very talented cartoonist and pretty decent super comics-script writer that everyone seems to like, in this volume occasionally collaborating with Scott Snyder, who seems to be the universally accepted Best Writer At DC.Īnd yet this comic is sort of awful.
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