The Superhero Who Lost EVERYTHING (Animal Man)
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- Опубліковано 9 вер 2024
- Grant Morrison's Animal Man is one of my personal favourite comic runs ever. DC allowing Morrison to cook somehow always results in peak. This is a summary to entice you to read the book!
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One of my absolute favourite things in comics is writers taking weird and or obscure characters and making masterfully written stories out of them
Absolutely
Speedball another example 😢
@@ItsQueenZee i personally think that he suffer, not for being a MC or life in a comic, but by being a NICE guy. It's the same with spiderman, every love interest die or cheat on him, or both.
@ItsQueenZee is there a time limit or distance from limit and how many abilities can he have/use at once ? If he's flying and suddenly he's no longer near a bird does he just fall to his death?
@@ItsQueenZee does the animal need to be alive or could he carry small pieces of or DNA from a host of creatures in a utility belt or whatever.
0:31 "Hope he breaks a leg" had me on the floor diying hahahahahahahahaha
Based animal man ❤
I’m a die-hard Grant Morrison fan and Animal man is my favorite comic book character of all time. That said, I think his best stories were actually written by the author that took over some time after Grant, Jamie Delano. Animal Man Flesh and Blood is so intensely special to me, and I dearly wish more people would read it
@@grimfin3214 i've only read (and obviously adored) morrison's run (and some of the new 52) but the other runs are on my to read list as well
@ItsQueenZee the one that comes right after is also really strong, but different. It gets dam dark a few issues later
Buddy should carry a can of worms on him at all times so he can regenerate anytime it gets hairy. Very cool concept for a hero.
Animal Man is still one of my favorite DC superheroes.
I hope James Gunn puts Buddy in a film!
Yesssss. An animal man movie or show in the DCU would be peak.
Oh wow, that was NOT what I expected from a comic about a guy called "Animal Man"
Gotta check the full comic, this sounds great
It really is amazing! I'm glad the vid interested u
With this and Animporphs what's up with american media about people with animal powers in general turning out to be existential epics where characters die every few seconds
Jeff lemire’s run of animal man is excellent
You know a DC character's is gonna go through some shit when they're being flamed by kids for not being up to Aquaman's standards.
Hard to live up to a king
Reminds me of booster gold , saves a kid and the kid says : "Thank you, Green Lantern" 😅
My theory is that Grant Morrison is secretly Lex Luthor in an alternate universe
The only logical explanation
that peyote button edit was phenomenal, genuinely made me laugh
@@scoopwoop8196 i'm glad :))). I was debating whether to even put it in the video but now i have no regret.
I wonder how people at the time reacted to this story? When Stephen King inserted himself into the Dark Tower series, critics called it 'self-indulgent'. For some reason this sort of meta storytelling really rubs people the wrong way. But when done right it's really eerie.
I liked how it was done in dark tower, especially considering how long King had been working on the series and what it meant to him. It makes the way his self insert version of himself interacts with the plot and characters very interesting and doesn't dominate the entire plot in a way that reduces what the characters have been through up until the point they encounter him.
I liked the way that Grant Morrison died in the comics. He was on a suicide squad mission and had writers block, so he got mauled to death by a wild animal
How is bro a c lister all he needs is a pocket with an ant a dragonfly and a worm and he can fly regenerate and have 10 x strength
Fr he's super strong, just underutilized
That suiced squad cameo would be much better and hilarious if what the writer said was "Buggers! writer's block! I got nothing... Nothing!!!"
Grant Morrison’s Animal Man is one of my favorite comics ever, so I’m always happy to see people talk about it.
well. all in all.
he's no ambush bug.
Well obviously, no one can match the majesty of ambush bug
Bro, a comicbook video about Animal Man in 2024?! He's definitely one of the best written characters in DC! I hope Gunn's DCU give him justice, give him a show like Booster Gold, talking about some of Buddy's personal issues (double life as a superhero and animal preservation) and zany backstory. 😭 😭
It's insane for being such a minor character, that Animal Man still got two of my favourite, fundamentally different runs of all Superheroes.
This Post-Crisis Grant Morrison run and the New 52 Jeff Lemire run (writer of Sweet Tooth).
I think my biggest disappointment with Injustice Part 2 was that they just lumped him in as a generic eco-terrorist who would see humanity die for the sake of animal life.
If Animal man’s abilities extended to extraterrestrial creatures, he’d essentially be DC’s Ben 10. Except without the cool transformations.
His abilities do extend to alien animals actually! I think all DC characters connected to the red are able to use the powers of non-sapient aliens and demons, Beast Boy has done it too.
Ironically the juxtaposition between talking about animal man and the kite man cartoon highlights everything wrong with DC now
I remember reading a volume of animal man when I was 7 or so, I don’t remember much except being scared by that scene of the coyote being run over.
Man this held my attention like a minecraft pig and carrot-on-a-stick off a cliff moment
@@tobiaschadwick3857 really happy to hear that :))
This video was such a gem to watch, Animal Man is a favorite of mine. Thanks for making this, I hope to see more like it soon!!
😊😊😊
What the flying fuck. This was the most insane story I've ever fucking read. For a name so simple as animal man the story is the exact opposite. Buddy is like DC's version of Deadpool but it's just tragedy.
It's mostly just for this one run. It's a really cerebral run, but it's pretty on brand for the author of the story. The invisibles is a different comic that grant made, and that one is balls to the wall crazy, all about anarchists vs conformity.
Real Calvin's Dad energy coming from that thumbnail. Great vid
i dont even read comics and this really piqued my interest, good video man
Thank you!!
I never got to read animal man as a kid but he always had a place in my mind for some reason and seeing how intricate the story is is so cool
sometimes the greatest art comes from experience.
@@Elijah668 fax
Thinking it was animal man cuz animal powers but it was because it was an animal in a cage we see for entertainment
True comic cinema
As much as I like Grant Morrison, Chris Claremont is responsible for revitalizing the X-Men.
6:34 that entire series of sentences is NUTS.
I just learned I have a comic about animal man it of him in his blue and white suit I thought it was some random hero character bc my grama got it for me and I never knew now I'm gonna read more in to this awesome character 👍
I'm glad! You really should check him out
Minor correction, but the door at the end of the Limbo doesn't take Buddy to London, but Glasgow. Morrison is Scottish.
@@Codiekitty thank you for informing me!
It was so bad that god invite him and have a chat with him
That was beautiful
New 52 animal man is really good too! Less trippy Morrison stuff, but it’s a good read.
His arc in 52 is also nice. He mimics a star eater there.
@@wr5488 i read the first few issues of New 52 Animal Man a while back, i'll probably get back to it at some point. The idea of the grey or decay was really interesting.
@ItsQueenZee Absolutely get back to it, she's great. It and Swamp Thing brought the horror vibes to New 52.
ngl I kind of wish we would've gotten him and star fire together
Buddy's just the ultimate wife-guy, so it makes sense they didn't in my opinion
I really dig limbo in this. It's nice to think that all the characters we miss, variants of them too, live on in limbo until called upon again.
@@Ronin_Vector i really like limbo too! I think it's appeared a few more times after this run but I'll have to make sure.
I'm guessing gwenpool is based on animal man? They have a very similar relationship with the fourth wall
@@beanbag8449 they are similar in some ways and I'd have no doubt if gwenpool took some inspiration. But I think Gwenpool is alot more similar to 80s She-Hulk since her 4th wall breaking was also more comedic like Gwenpool's.
i love the morrison's run, i couldn't stop reading! * 0 *
Thanks to your video I binge animal man in 4 days it was phenomenal thanks
@@posselnathalieetfils5853 glad i got you to read such an awesome story!
@@ItsQueenZee and after the grant morisson run animal man is still good?
@@posselnathalieetfils5853 It depends, each successive writer changed the lore bit by bit. Peter Milligan's Run is even more psychedelic than Morrison's, with references to the work of William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin. Jamie Delano is more “shamanistic,” he's the one who invented totems and Red. The New 52 focuses mainly on body horror. “52” is very good and much lighter, at least for the Animal Man characters, it's an event showing what happens during the year in which Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman took time off.
If you liked Grant's Animal Man, also check out his Doom Patrol, Zenith and The Invisibles.
That bit at the start was vile💀
What? the boy, the gay science, or the anti-Nazi orgasm-guns
Man, this is agreat video definitely deserves more attention keep doing great work.
@@AstroBlastard 😊thank uu
i think the first time i heard of animal man was when they were promoting the new 52 and i saw that crazy ass cover for Animal man the hunt. What a cool character.
I feel at this point... Spiderman would envy that ending
The ending feels like a roast of the very sort of torture porn comicbooks that made Petey's life a living Hell.
This was a fantastic watch!
This was great and really edited
That song you referenced when you said hello friendos and bendos he doesnt say bendo in that song. The lyrics are actually "friendo pass me the benzo" a class of intoxicants that include xanax and valium. Just fyi. Love that song
@@theodorejenkins6066 actually it's just a coincidence that it sounds similar to that song😭. Though i looked it up and that song IS good wow.
@ItsQueenZee oh lol my b. Glad you got to hear that song though it's real chill
i just read it all in a week and already knew the twist with the 4th wall so it was cool seeing all the clues that he was breaking the wall
Tried to do a summary type vid to entice people to read GM's Animal Man! Tell me what u think
Glad you did more people need to know about Animal Man its definitely one of my favorite runs in all of comics.
It worked on me!
@@robertfalcone3025 Same
@@ItsQueenZee I love the characters so much, I stayed with the book even after he left
Could have been a twilight zone episode.
he’d be an awesome wild kratt brother
great video.i love animal man, 3 years ago this morrison run was edited in spanish here in argentina, i loved since i read it. i even have a tattoo about buddy, so, yes animal man is the best. greatings for argentina and sry for my bad english! :P
⚠️fun fact;
Animal man can also break forth wall like deadpool
Btw animal man is underrated ❤
Does that makes us animals
@@burner555 idk
This was on Deadpool/Chakravartin type stuff, and I love it!
Cmon, dude... peyote isnt even a fungus. he's getting high on *cactus*
Well that was one of the best stories ever
This video is amazing I loved every moment also the getting high scene e w the SpongeBob song fits sooo good I love the editing btw , I hope you can cover hellblazer
@@odysseyexodus1520 thank you! And who knows, i plan to go over lots of comics and stuff eventually
this character can still be saved 😬
Subbed and watchlisted, keep that focus man i was hooked🤤🤌🏽👀
You're doing a great job man, subscribed
@@AT-vj2mz thankssss
Wait... KITEMAN HAD A SHOW?!?!
Yeah it's airing rn
i always thought animal man was an interesting character but didn't realized how deep his story was
holy shit that was amazing!
Very funny intro subscribed
You didn’t even mention the boland covers
@@Hank_Castle yeah i mainly just focused on the story, but the art of the series is peak too. Both covers and interiors.
This was a super fucking good video dude! I was shocked you only had 90 followers. Keep this shit up 👌🏻👌🏻
Thank you😊
he's one of the most powerful heroes in DC.
I like that his powers are just worse beast boy
@23:00 and shes awesome / the show rocks
Wait theres a kiteman show? Who tf is watching a kiteman show?
Intresting.
No call for the police Budddyy.
You're underrated fr
Bro is literally the Beastmaster
in the kid at the beginnings, jimmy's defense,
i thought he was booster gold
The niche bit got me
@@MonkeyChatTV 😊
Saw Buddy in the beginning issue of Absolute Power, along with Maxine, and it stoked some hope that someone would take an interest in him and start writing Animal Man stories again. While the Morrison run is amazing and rightfully lauded, Buddy didn't get my attention until the New 52 run, and it blew my tits off. You could actually change the writer to Alan Moore, and the same could be said for Swamp Thing, in my case. Certainly hoping to see more Buddy Baker content in the future.
Good vid ❤
Subscribed 👍🏾
Hope to see more great videos from you in the future
@@baddragonite thank you!
nice
great video, this is a great introduction for comics and the work of morrison, wish you talked about the red hood comic. Its my favorite.
@@joaquinpalavecino6308 thank you! And ya never kbow, maybe i will get to talking about red hood eventually
@@ItsQueenZee oh mix characters, i ment red mask the villain that animal man tries to help with sui***dal
@@joaquinpalavecino6308 ohhhhh. I really liked that issue as well but i was trying not to make the video too long. My fave issue of Animal Man is actually the one with the thanagarian artist/terrorist, the ending is hilarious.
@@ItsQueenZee your summary was great, with good narrative. I completly forgot that one but i remeber that the realy stresed me, like empaty for buddy in that moment. But my favorite one of all issues is the one with the dolphin.
@@ItsQueenZee your summary was great, great narrative. My favorite of all the issues is the one with the dolphin. The one you said really got me stressed in the end, like imagine being in the situation that buddy is. But then hawkman just pushing the buton... yeap its funny
This was a fun watch just breezing by his wife getting sa'd in the woods is crazy
Awesome man 👨
How does this man have 190 subscribers? This is a travesty!!!
2:56 Why was Grant Morrison so happy in that photo?
@@wellesradio he discovered a new wizarding spell to help in his eternal battle with Alan Moore
0:48 Daredevil would disagree.
If animals believed in God human would be the devil
holy shit
Where can I watch this comic online and free
Get farther away from the mic or get one of those protector things that go on top of the mic
You will sound much better
: D love Him
wait ya didn't mention with tagging as one of with his powers
@@hiruyabebaw807 hm what do you mean?
@@ItsQueenZee those other powers he gets when he fights the fuckin "dark side of god"
@@hiruyabebaw807ohhhh. That happens AFTER the Morrison run, and generally isn't a main part of his powerset
ok
Can you do a video on killer mtoh kiteman polkadot man and condiment king please
@@ulicesveracruz2202 all cool characters! Maybe i'll get around to it but i cant 100% guarantee
Or it destroys u and everything around u
where i can read in that quality?
@@bIuecat. you could buy the book on amazon or use something like DC Universe Infinite
I loved this video but do not do another Grant Impression. He's not brittish my guy😂 he's a Scott
😭😭😭
1:20 and we've gotten two liberal already.
Sometimes writers can be too clever for their own good. At what point does clever writing become pretentious rubbish?
Dude, you have some kind of droning sound in the background of your voice over...
In the key of G#
😭i'll try to fix ittttt. I'm still so new to this yt thing, i barely even know how to normalize audio.