737: The Bolthole of My Own Self-Referentiality


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Oct 11 2024 83 mins   113

It was the late ’80s and comic writer Grant Morrison was fast becoming Grant Morrison. Come back with us to look at his run on Animal Man, issues 1-26, in which a has-been/never-was superhero becomes an outspoken animal rights activist, witnesses the near-undoing of the Crisis on Infinite Earths, and meets his own maker—who looks strangely like Grant Morrison. Before Deadpool and She-Hulk broke the fourth wall, this was Peak Meta.


Grant Morrison's "Animal Man"


Chip Sudderth with Lisa Schmeiser and Tony Sindelar





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