A few weeks ago, a friend sent a private message to Scourge and asked Misfortune to introduce the DC hero Animal Man.
Animal Man, whose real name is Buddy Baker, first appeared in the 1965 comic book Strange Adventures
Originally, Buddy was not called Animal Man, but "A-Man", and he was just a little-appearing, dispensable, marginal character who formed a minor group of heroes, "The Forgotten Heroes", with a few other "little heroes".
In the second "British Invasion", Grant Morrison took over the creation of Animal Man, turning Animal Man, a minor hero, into a first-line hero, and the overall setting and style of Animal Man began to change radically.
Animal Man began to gradually move away from the mainstream continuity of the DC Universe and joined the Vertigo Comic after the Vertigo Comics were formed.
When the 89th issue of the Animal Man manga was published, it was canceled due to sluggish sales. Animal Man swapped back to the iconic ** and began to appear in comics and crossover events for other heroes, marking Animal Man's return to DC mainstream continuity.
After the DC Universe was rebooted in 2011 with the big event Flashpoint, Animal Man's comics were universally acclaimed, and his history was added with new elements in addition to returning to the classic continuity.
Let's talk about the DC hero Animal Man.
Animal Man, whose real name is Barnhard Baker and nicknamed Buddy, first appeared in the 1965 comic book Bizarre Adventures
Buddy is a man with a gentle personality and gentle manners. Once, while Buddy and his friend Roger Denny were hunting in the forest, he was irradiated by a crashed alien spaceship and gained superpowers.
A circus train has an accident and circus animals such as tigers, orangutans, and elephants run out and attack Roger and Buddy.
Buddy discovers that he has access to the animals' powers, which he uses to help local professionals capture them.
At this time, aliens attack a nearby town. Buddy intervenes to stop the aliens, but his animal power fades during the fight, and Buddy has to flee.
Buddy catches the two rats and passes the rat cowardice to the aliens, who fall off a cliff and die.
Buddy became a hero under the wide publicity of the local newspaper, and when he proposed to his girlfriend Alan, Alan agreed, and Buddy fainted in excitement in his girlfriend's arms.
In "Bizarre Adventure" 190, Buddy reappeared, he wore **, and became A Man (A Man is a shorthand for Animal Man), with a big A logo on his chest.
Buddy announced that he would dedicate his life to the fight against **.
A-Man was not very popular, and he only occasionally appeared in some other heroes' comics for more than a decade.
It wasn't until the 1984 comic "Action Comics" 552 that the Immortals recruited marginal heroes such as Animal Man (the full name of Animal Man was used at this time), Kev Carson, Congo Bill, Dain Dorrens, the leader of the Sea Devils, the Mermaid Dolphin, Rick Flegg, the captain of the Suicide Squad, and Rip Hunt, the master of time, to form the team's forgotten heroes.
The enemy of the "Forgotten Heroes" team is the "Forgotten Villains", a team of villains formed by Wanda Savage and the Enchanting Witch.
Animal Man and the Forgotten Hero participate in the big event "Crisis on Infinite Earths" that began in 1985.
At the end of the seventies, American comics were in trouble, there was nothing new, and sales continued to decline. In the early eighties, DC Comics brought in a group of young writers and artists from the UK to create DC Comics, known as the British Invasion.
In 1985, DC launched the big event "Crisis on Infinite Earths", which rebooted the DC universe.
In 1988, Grant Morrison, a member of the British Invasion from Scotland, took over the creation of the Animal Man comics, which was originally planned to be a four-issue mini-comic. It was so popular that DC turned it into a long-term one.
Grant Morrison has created a new Animal Man origin story, and this version of the origin story retains the essence of the original origin story with some minor tweaks. In the comics, the original Animal Man also appears, hoping not to change his origin story.
While hunting as a teenager, Buddy came across a crashed spaceship, which gave him powers.
After an unsuccessful heroic experience, Buddy became a stunt movie actor, and after seeing the newspaper headlines about Justice League International, Buddy decided to start his career as a hero again.
Buddy is married to his high school sweetheart, Allen, and they have a son, Cliff and Maxine.
Grant Morrison created the Yellow Alien that gave Animal-Man powers (the concept of "red" was later introduced through the Yellow Alien. Red is a force that connects all animal life in the universe, corresponding to the green color that gives power to swamp monsters).
Buddy is a man of great compassion for all living beings, he is an animal rights activist, environmentalist, and vegetarian, all causes that Grant Morrison supports.
Once, Animal Man helped a group of self-proclaimed eco-*** people save a group of dolphins, he was angry at the cruelty of the fisherman, threw the fisherman into the sea, and wanted to drown the fisherman, but the dolphin who was brutally tortured by the fisherman saved the fisherman.
Grant Morrison's Animal Man, with its theme of "the nature of reality", has been manipulating and deconstructing the fourth wall (the imaginative barrier that separates the reader from the story's setting).
He often presents the artist's unfinished pencil sketches juxtaposed with the finished drawings for the reader.
Some characters, including Animal Man, are realizing that they are comic book characters and are being read by readers**. They can communicate beyond the borders of the page.
In Animal Man 5, Grant Morrison introduces the crooked wolf in the Looney Tunes animation (**Beep Bird), the crooked wolf is tired of the endless cycle of violence of ** characters, he turns to the cartoonist for help, and makes a deal with the cartoonist, willingly leaves the ** world (Looney Tunes) and enters the comic world of Animal Man (DC Universe) to end this violence.
This issue was nominated for Eisner's Best Single Issue Manga.
While Animal Man is out on a mission, his wife and children are brutally murdered. Animal Man begins to investigate the matter. Eventually, Animal Man comes to the Limbo and finds the "God" who controls his life, Grant Morrison, and learns the truth that all life in the DC Universe is fictional.
Grant Morrison tells Animal Man that he can't let the character die just because of realism, sending Animal Man back to the DC Universe and resurrecting Animal Man's family.
Grant Morrison's successor, Peter Milligan, is dominated by surreal villains, quantum physics, and uses Dadaist text-cutting techniques in comics.
After Tom Vicky and Steve Dillon took over Animal Man, they mainly explored the aspect of Animal Man's power totem.
Jamie Delano and Steve Pugh made the Animal Man comics even more terrifying, with the cover of Animal Man labeled "recommended for mature readers."
In 1993, DC established a sub-label "Vertigo Comics", and from 57 onwards, "Animal Man" was merged into Vertigo Comics. Vertigo comics have their own independent continuity, interacting only occasionally with the DC Universe.
Jamie Delano created the concept of red, making Animal Man an "animal avatar".
Animal Man is legally dead, he no longer wears his own **, he no longer links with other heroes, and even gives up fighting criminals, often appearing in half-human, half-animal form.
Animal Man founded Maxine Life Force Church to spread environmentalism, and he became a "prophet of wrath."
Eventually, Animal Man enters the "cosmic phase", where he no longer cares about the activities of the Church and begins to search for universal truths. Be inspired at a higher level.
When Animal Man fights the Spider Queen of **, he realizes that just as diamonds and carbon are the same substance, gods and humans are also the same substance. Every human being and God is the body of God and the soul of the world. Animal Man of Epiphany easily defeats Queen Spider.
Soon after, the Animal Man comic was canceled due to the continued decline in vectors.
When Grant Morrison first took over the Animal Man comics, Buddy joined the Justice League International and formed a strong friendship with Dmitry of the Rocket Red Brigade.
After the cancellation of Animal Man under Vertigo Comics, he made occasional cameo appearances in several comics (mostly in big events) and resumed his **, Animal Man returned to the DC Universe.
The returning Animal Man teamed up with Aquaman to defeat the Gameman.
Animal Man also helped the Justice League many times, and also saved the entire universe in the battle with Magdon.
He also fought against Wanda Savage along with the forgotten heroes.
During Infinite Crisis, Animal Man is recruited by Wonder Woman to join the team traveling to New Kronos to stop Alexander Luthor. In the process, Animal Man forms a friendship with Firestorm.
After the event, Animal Man is trapped on a paradisiacal planet along with heroes such as Starfire and Adam Wonderman. After being attacked by demons on their way back to Earth in a spaceship, Rob passes by to rescue several heroes. Then, during the battle with Lady Styx, Animal Man is controlled by Lady Styx and becomes a zombie under Lady Styx, and he has Starfire kill him.
After Adam and Starfire leave, Animal Man is resurrected and returns to Earth, happily telling his family about his space adventures.
In 2011, DC rebooted the universe with the big event "Flashpoint", and after the reboot, Animal Man continued his identity as an environmentalist and stuntman.
But he is no longer the "incarnation of the animal", his daughter Maxine becomes the incarnation of red, and Animal Man is the protector of the incarnation of red.
Since the Red Avatar was killed by Anton Akon, the "Limb Council" decided to follow the example of the Swamp Monster to instill Red in Buddy the power of Red and protect the Red Avatar.
The "Council of the Limbs" sets up a fake scenario where a spaceship crashes and aliens empower Buddy. Six months later, Buddy's wife, Alan, became pregnant and gave birth to Maxine, the embodiment of red.
Animal Man joins the European division of Justice League International.
After Maxine began to demonstrate his ability to control animals based on necromancy, Buddy began to search for his own powers. Eventually, he discovers that his true power comes from red, just like the green power of the swamp monster.
In the events of Fall of the Corrupt Country, Animal Man joins the swamp monsters against the rotten black. Maxine is corrupted by Anton Akon in order to save his family, and the angry Animal Man defeats Anton and the dark Council of Decay along with the swamp monsters.
During the incident, Cliff was stabbed to death by William Aken.
Allen blames Animal Man for Cliff's death, decides not to see Animal Man again, and takes Maxine with him.
Animal Man approached the Council of the Limbs and demanded that the Council of the Limbs cancel his daughter's identity as the red avatar. The Council of Limbs severes Animal Man's ties to Red and banishes him from the Red Kingdom.
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