Animal Man #14 Preview/Discussion

[Jake Fury]

Love how Lemire is handling Constantine in this series. His JLD version just doesn't seem quite the same. Odd....

[Talisman]

And with Funny Faust in-between :)

Lemire is really making him one of my favorite DC villains.

[Talisman]

Is Timothy Green II taking over the art from Pugh? I'm a huge fan of Green II, and wouldn't hate this revelation.

[new_onslaught]

Is Timothy Green II taking over the art from Pugh? I'm a huge fan of Green II, and wouldn't hate this revelation.

They share art dutties in a really good way. Pugh gets the Rotworld future and Green gets the present with the rest of the Baker family.

[Talisman]

They share art dutties in a really good way. Pugh gets the Rotworld future and Green gets the present with the rest of the Baker family.

I can live with this, but do we know what happens after RotWorld?

[new_onslaught]

I can live with this, but do we know what happens after RotWorld?

I guess not.

[dupersuper]

So...the last page...

Any thoughts on who's guarding Arcane's fortress? Rot-League maybe?

I was thinking it's something like that. The absence of the primary defenders of Earth (JL, Stormwatch, etc.) has been conspicuous.

[InformationGeek]

I was thinking it's something like that. The absence of the primary defenders of Earth (JL, Stormwatch, etc.) has been conspicuous.

Oh! That'll be neat! Who would draw a better Rot Justice League: Pugh or Yanick?

[dubbauw]

So does anyone know if Ellen, her mom, and Cliff are the new Hunters Three? I'm new to Animal Man, so I don't know if they have some ability to come back and possess others, cause I remember in #12 Buddy said he took out two of them. And in this one im pretty sure the three Bakers said they are the hunters now.

[Alpha Male]

Gorilla Grodd!!! I liked seeing this!!! Now if they add Vixen here this would be complete!!

[pikul]

It seems I'm in the minority here : I hated it from the first page to the last.
So boring and repetitive. Worst issue of the series so far.
Dialogues are absolutely terrible : how many times the characters will explain to us that "the Rot is spreading eveywhere" ?

[Young Corn God]

Lemire's intentional Liefeld burns in this issue were so blazingly obvious that I can't believe anyone's even questioning whether it's a thing. I'm guessing this issue was scripted about the time Rob had his epic flameout a couple of months back. Lemire got to do his commentary by implying that all of the characters Rob was involved with were tainted and "rotted" from the experience. I thought it was so blatant it almost subsumed the main text of the story, but it was delicious enough that I enjoyed it anyway.

[Outside_85]

Lemire is really making him one of my favorite DC villains.

Faust is to me one of those kinds of villains thats needed in comic books, where they can be menacing in one instance and in the next they end up doing something stupid that ruins all their own work. Sadly these kinds of characters are endangered in the modern grit-filled comicbooks, as was seen when Dr. Light was flipped from his usual setting to possibly one of the worst types of monsters DC could think of.