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Review Linky Dinky: Animal Man #5

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Over at Newsarama, I wrote a few words about Jeff Lemire and Travel Foreman's Animal Man #5, trying to focus mainly on the art.

Foreman doesn't hide anything from the reader.  The bulbous monsters and the horrible disfigurement that Buddy suffers battling it are front and center in this issue. Nothing is hidden or left to the reader's imagination. A vision of Animal Man's daughter Maxine as the corruptor of the world is made complete by her spider-like legs and a thoroughly dissected Animal Man. It gets far more shocking when she pulls the skin off of his face in the vision, an image repeated from the cover but the vision in the book is more vivid and terrifying. Foreman makes an image that's impossible not to see. His horror is presented so matter-of-factly that you can not avert your eyes from it. It's not hidden and it's not implied. Foreman is drawing a horror story that won't let you look away from it. It's the kind of horror that's terrible in idea and concept but beautiful in execution.

You can read the whole review here.