Animal Man #12

Credits

• Words: Jeff Lemire and Scott Snyder
• Art: Steve Pugh
• Colors: Lovern Kindzierski

• Story Title: Rotworld: Prologue Part One
• Publisher: DC Comics
• Price: $2.99
• Release Date: Aug 1, 2012

Posted by Trigonis on Aug 6, 2012

Tags: animal man, dc comics, jeff lemire, scott snyder, steve pugh

Buddy Baker?s search for the Swamp Thing yields a team up of Red and Green against the impending terror of Rotworld.

With Cliff Baker horror-struck from within after the Baker family?s final confrontation with the last of the Hunters Three, it appears that only the combined might of Animal Man and Swamp Thing can save Buddy Baker?s son and stop the Rot from reducing humankind to a world of twisted, rotting monsters. But first they have to find the elusive avatar of the Green, and they eventually do find Alec Holland standing alongside Abby Arcane at the precipice of a black lake of death and decay ?? a hell-mouth into which Buddy and Alec must descend in order to defeat the Rot before it grows stronger and envelopes the entire world in its putrid embrace.

Animal Man #12 serves as a stalwart foundation on which to construct a story arc that will no doubt prove a powerful journey into the darkest parts of the human psyche. The combined storytelling finesse of Jeff Lemire and Scott Snyder, coupled with Steve Pugh?s terrifyingly surreal depiction of the netherworld of the Rot make this issue more than just a simple prologue to a greater tale, but one infused with allusions to ancient Greek mythology (the story of Theseus and the minotaur comes to mind) that builds on all prior issues of Animal Man and Swamp Thing to converge brilliantly at this point.

Add to this a wonderful, moving scene (yes, horror stories like this can have ?moving? moments when you have a creative team this amazing writing them) in which Buddy and Alec leave their loved ones behind to enter a rancid realm from which there may be no return and a very concise encapsulation of issues of Animal Man past, and this prologue to ?Rotworld? becomes a true testament to what came before and what terrors are to come. Thankfully, we don?t have to wait very long for part two ?? just read Swamp Thing #12, also out August 1st.

Source: http://www.brokenfrontier.com/reviews/p/detail/animal-man-12

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