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helpfulsnowman's review
3.0
Not bad. Not bad at all.
It gets a lower rating for me because it's just not my kind of story. Things are a little more...cosmic that I prefer. However, fans of stuff like Sandman or Hellblazer will get into this big time. In a lot of ways, this books feels very much like the successor to the better of the 90's Vertigo stuff and really carries on that spirit, which deserves praise.
It's also a great matching of story and art. Sometimes I feel pangs when I see a story that's got a less mainstream feel to it, so it's decided that a really strange art style is appropriate. This book doesn't have mainstream art, but it's off just enough that it really compliments the story. And though the art has an unusual feel to it, it doesn't fall into that trap you sometimes see where you're looking at the panels, reading the words, and still unsure what exactly is going on.
Also, of the new 52 I've read so far, this one did a better job of making me feel like it's going somewhere with payoff in the longterm. That's always a nice feeling to walk away with.
It gets a lower rating for me because it's just not my kind of story. Things are a little more...cosmic that I prefer. However, fans of stuff like Sandman or Hellblazer will get into this big time. In a lot of ways, this books feels very much like the successor to the better of the 90's Vertigo stuff and really carries on that spirit, which deserves praise.
It's also a great matching of story and art. Sometimes I feel pangs when I see a story that's got a less mainstream feel to it, so it's decided that a really strange art style is appropriate. This book doesn't have mainstream art, but it's off just enough that it really compliments the story. And though the art has an unusual feel to it, it doesn't fall into that trap you sometimes see where you're looking at the panels, reading the words, and still unsure what exactly is going on.
Also, of the new 52 I've read so far, this one did a better job of making me feel like it's going somewhere with payoff in the longterm. That's always a nice feeling to walk away with.
howardtaftmd's review
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
scottpm's review
4.0
Weird, wacky, and WTF are all rolled into one in volume 1. Jeff Lemire takes Animal Man on one heck of a journey. I need to find do out where it ends up.
rltinha's review
5.0
O Lemire não desilude e dota Animal Man da ambiência «lemireiana» de pendor pós-apocalíptico, aqui mais pré-apocalíptico com prolepses nas quais a arte materializa a creepyness latente no que as antecede.
Quanto à arte,
tem momentos destes,
conjugando igualmente a limpeza dos traços prosaicos com as exposição do putrefacto-monstruoso
No termo da leitura deste Vol 1, o Vol 2 assume a qualidade de bem essencial a adquirir no mais curto prazo.
Quanto à arte,
tem momentos destes,
conjugando igualmente a limpeza dos traços prosaicos com as exposição do putrefacto-monstruoso
No termo da leitura deste Vol 1, o Vol 2 assume a qualidade de bem essencial a adquirir no mais curto prazo.
joshgauthier's review
4.0
I have to say, I went into this thinking it would be basically a superhero story, but what I got was darker, creepier, and more unsettling that I expected. This is not to say that what Lemire has done here is bad, just that it goes beyond the bounds of what superhero comics typically look like.
I wasn't a huge fan of the artistic style, but it certainly complemented the story and added to the tone of Lemire's writing.
And at the core of the story, this volume holds up well. At its center, it's a story about a man who finds everything he knows and loves challenged and is left to make sense of this new understanding. It's intense. It's emotional. It's well-delivered. This volume balances on the edge between superhero comic and horror story, but the central humanity of the characters ultimately make it engaging and worthwhile.
I wasn't a huge fan of the artistic style, but it certainly complemented the story and added to the tone of Lemire's writing.
And at the core of the story, this volume holds up well. At its center, it's a story about a man who finds everything he knows and loves challenged and is left to make sense of this new understanding. It's intense. It's emotional. It's well-delivered. This volume balances on the edge between superhero comic and horror story, but the central humanity of the characters ultimately make it engaging and worthwhile.
manuelte's review
5.0
Animal Man is a character I didn't give a second thought at all before reading this volume, it seemed redundant to me in a universe that also has Vixen, Beast Boy, and B'wana Beast, but Jeff Lemire and Travel Foreman make it work amazingly well in the Green-Red-Rot mythology to which we are introduced in the soon to overlap Swamp Thing and Animal Man stories. I especially enjoy the fact that we are presented with a hero that has a rich family life, struggles with the economy, and has shifted jobs many times, making him much more relatable to the reader than the standard billionaire or alien character DC tends to write.
georgezakka's review
4.0
Going into this I didn’t know what my expectations were since the character is foreign to me but after reading this you get a good feel of the character.
Animal man: the hunt - the life web is the connection to all life and the people/animals connected to the life web get the powers of connecting to animal life. When most people connected to the life web go to the red when they die there were some that strived for power named the rot. So when animal man’s daughter is threatened by the rot he has to save the day!
My thoughts (the good and bad) - first of all I love the relationships that buddy has with everyone in the family and I love how they ground him in a way I also really liked how willing buddy is to protect his family. Then the art, the art is really weird and probably won’t appeal to a lot of readers since the the rot is drawn too weirdly or stuff like that but I dug it, I think the weirdness is really unique but my problem with the book was that sometimes that art wasn’t so great and was boring sometimes.
Overall great book
Animal man: the hunt - the life web is the connection to all life and the people/animals connected to the life web get the powers of connecting to animal life. When most people connected to the life web go to the red when they die there were some that strived for power named the rot. So when animal man’s daughter is threatened by the rot he has to save the day!
My thoughts (the good and bad) - first of all I love the relationships that buddy has with everyone in the family and I love how they ground him in a way I also really liked how willing buddy is to protect his family. Then the art, the art is really weird and probably won’t appeal to a lot of readers since the the rot is drawn too weirdly or stuff like that but I dug it, I think the weirdness is really unique but my problem with the book was that sometimes that art wasn’t so great and was boring sometimes.
Overall great book
ostrava's review
2.0
I didn't enjoy this, but I'm willing to entertain the idea that it's a me issue and not with the comic. I don't know who this Animal Man is, but it's more restless than the average Lemire comic, with lots of action. Kind of like, well, like a Gran Morrison book. Maybe he's just being faithful to the source material?
Anyway, not my cup of tea. That's all.
Anyway, not my cup of tea. That's all.
pustulio's review
4.0
Es bueno saber que Lemire no solo escribe novelas gráficas acerca del ser humano, si no que también puede escribir novelas acerca de super humanos. Animal Man es una historia muy bizarra, pero no cae en ese cliché de "ser raro" y que se vea forzado, no. Este comic es raro porque el personaje y el mundo lo requiere.
Le doy 4 estrellas porque leere los siguientes tomos para ver a donde va la historia, la verdad me quedé picado.
Le doy 4 estrellas porque leere los siguientes tomos para ver a donde va la historia, la verdad me quedé picado.
darylnash's review
3.0
A bit like a re-tread of Swamp Thing, down to artwork that is reminiscent of Stephen Bissette's from Alan Moore's run. This is not as good as those classics, but that was something like 30 years ago, and this new Animal Man is a nice divergence from current typical superhero comics.