That scene comes in issue #2 of the series, which Buddy take a break from patrol, sitting on a rooftop and unwrapping a sandwich that his wife, Ellen, has made for him. I love this premise, but it needs a particular scene to give it context. And there are no pockets in a spandex outfit. It works perfectly for Morrison’s take on Buddy Baker, a family man who dons a costume but adds a denim jacket because he’s self-conscious of how he looks in Spandex. Truog’s artwork is perfect - clean art that fits the super-hero mold, but somehow less barrel-chested and heroic that a George Perez or John Byrne. It’s an issue of DC Comics’ Animal Man, written by by Grant Morrison and illustrated by Chas Truog. Tough break for someone who ties knots for a living.Īnd this one… one of my favorites. That moment in Suicide Squad in which Slipknot - a villain who makes knots and no, I’m not kidding - runs off and Amanda Waller detonates the bracelet on his wrist, blowing off his hand. That final page of Ex Machina #1, in which one of the twin towers remains standing - forever changing history while plotting the course for the series. Storm, feverish and trapped underground, runs a knife through Callisto to save the X-men and to take leadership of the Morlocks living underneath New York. That full page in Hellblazer in which John Constantine gives the finger to the devil. “The Dream of a Thousand Cats” - an entire story in The Sandman dedicated to the power of story and the reality of fiction. That moment in Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing where he describes The Flash as a man who runs so fast his life is an endless gallery of statues, a line that instantly swivels my entire perspective on the super-hero.
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