There are people who unironically think Animal Man is good

>There are people who unironically think Animal Man is good

Seriously, he's supposed to sound like an idiot, right?

he sounds like someone that dove headfirst into vegetarianism, much like the writer was doing at the time.

But to the point of your loaded question, Animal Man is fucking great, but not because of Buddy's activism.

I do.
Just not because of Morrison's run. It's not very Animal Man-y. Delano a best.
That said the activism stuff was one of the better things Grant did, on principle. Even if it's a little (okay a LOT) heavy handed.

>It's not very Animal Man-y
You do realize Animal Man was practically a non-entity before Morrison got his hands on him, right? There was no such thing as an "Animal Man guideline" for writing stories about him.

Yeah. Try to imagine that not everything is a writer soapbox. Animal Man's views absolutely make sense from the perspective of Animal Man. If you had his abilities, these things would just seem like natural moral choices and comparisons.

someone unironically created this thread

Do the English get Thier beef from the fucking Amazon?

I mean what he's saying is true if you wanna talk about coffee. but beef ?

Of course I know.
He's still got a pretty fucking blatant starter kit with just the name & powers.
The fact that Morrison opted to largely ignore that in favor of the typical 8th dimensional Morrison fare he could slap on anything is the run's greatest failing IMO.

lets not put the run in historical perspective. nice analysis kid

It's not even about historical perspective, it's about tonal. No need to get catty over it.
If you WANT to make it historical it's not like it was the first comic to break the 4th Wall anyway.

If there's one character in fiction that SHOULD be a vegetarian, it's Animal Man. Eating meat would be to him like eating pieces of himself.

Grant has a panel later on where he self deprecates for getting preachy.

and ultimately gets himself killed

Animal Man was one of the good things about New52

Until rotworld

Swamp Thing Rotworld was better imo

>(okay a LOT) heavy handed.
That's the point though. The book is very self aware of what it is. I mean Morrison literally appeared on panel to deliver his pro vegetarianism philosophy while saying it's pretentious as fuck.

Morrison got REALLY REALLY SUPER deep into animal activism during his run on AM. He himself said in the opening to one of the trades that he wasn't sure that he was able to properly convey his thoughts about activism in the book. Although that stuff is heavy handed as hell, his run is damn near perfect.
And then he left it and Milligan took over and fucked it up.

>Animal Man's views absolutely make sense from the perspective of Animal Man
Does it? Because animals eats other animals

By a different writer

No thye would't you realize vegetarian foods take up more room than your standard animal farm? They're large crops, they also aren't indinginous to the regions so they have to jump through hoops to get em to grow.

Then when they run a thresher through the field they kill alll the animals feeding off of the cops as well as the animals feeding on the animals,


So not only do vegetarian foods take up more space, resulting in more land aquisition, they also result in similar animal death counts.

But he also becomes animals that eat other animals, so he winds up being an omnivore either way.

There were a significant number of good things about the New 52

That's just his character, and seeing his powers, it makes sense. If you felt it was real, like a actual person, than it was executed successfully enough. Maybe just not in a character you'd align yourself with, yknow?

Your thinking of beast boy, who transforms while animal man just mimics.

But even then a wolf will eat the bunny when given the chance