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PREVIEW: Comics Corner #12 | Grant Morrison’s Animal Man

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

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🗓️ 29 April 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Connor and Harry return to Comics Corner, to discuss Grant Morrison’s famous run on Animal Man — and whether it is a metatextual triumph or Leftist propaganda. Watch the full premium video: https://www.lotuseaters.com/premium-comics-corner-12-or-grant-morrisons-animal-man-29-04-24

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Comics Corner. I am your host Connor joined again by Harry.

0:03.7

We're so back. Yeah we had a universe wide reboot we had a costume change the whole thing.

0:08.4

I don't remember most of my history. Somebody cut my hair. Yeah, and speaking of not understanding continuity

0:14.1

Grom Morrison's animal man we decided to come back with a bang. Mainly because as well we

0:18.7

wanted to follow this on hopefully with crisis and infinite Earths and Legends.

0:23.0

So you can understand exactly what happened to comics in the 80s leading up to when Watchman ruined everything.

0:28.0

But I'm getting ahead.

0:30.0

Well, this was post Watchman, wasn't it?

0:32.0

And it might have been, from what you've been discussing before we began

0:34.4

recording this it might have been a commentary on Watchman which is giving it some

0:40.3

positive credit which I will not be giving it right okay so let's go into this because I said to you before this,

0:46.0

this is the omnibus edition for our audio listeners.

0:48.4

This was the 2022 reprint, very famous story.

0:53.0

It was the thing that Grant Morrison on the map

0:54.7

as part of his, he moved over to the US

0:56.6

in order to do this as part of the British invasion.

0:59.0

And it's very famous for being what most people considered

1:01.6

to be a metatextual triumph. And I read it and I was very disappointed so I said to you we need

1:06.2

to do this episode first so I can decide whether or not I need to sell this thing

1:10.0

what were your thoughts?

1:11.0

First of all I'd like to clarify a few things.

1:13.7

She said not understanding continuity then brought us over to Animal Man and Grant Morrison.

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