It's good to see that Animal Man finding an audience again in the New 52. I loved the earlier series as written by Grant Morrison, but after he left the title, DC didn't seem to know what to do with Buddy Baker. I can't say that I am a huge fan of Animal Man's new costume design, but I am glad he is back in his own comic.
I was always amused by the fact that the X-Men's early 1990's flight jacket uniforms originated with Buddy's mother-in-law making him wear something over his costume so he wouldn't catch a cold flying around in his underwear.
ReplyDeleteYeah,Buddy started a whole trend. Even the Human Torch was wearing a jacket for a little while. While flamed on.
ReplyDeleteAck! I forgot about that! I think Crystal was wearing one too, for a while. Of course, the idea of someone who controls the elements wearing a jacket to keep warm isn't nearly as ridiculous as someone whose whole body is on fire wearing one. I hope that was the 'shark-jumping' moment for extraneous jackets. I can't remember exactly, but things got so screwy in the 90's that it's possible that there was a super-hero team with a dog mascot and somebody drew a jacket on the dog for a few issues before an editor noticed and said,"Uhhh... we ought to rethink this..."
ReplyDeleteI thought they wore the jackets so they would have somewhere to put wallets and keys.
ReplyDeleteThis is cool!
ReplyDeleteThe Silver Age Animal Man was undeniably better than Morrison's. Talk about too much grim-and-grittiness!
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