#buddy baker

[theflashzoom]

DC Trend: Men of Summers Postcard

Summers are here. So here are the edit panels for each of the DC heroes for their shirtless postcard icons.

You can download their postcard to send your friends, post an image or even place it for decoration in your home.

#dc comics #dick grayson #nightwing #bruce wayne #batman #buddy baker #animal man #jason todd #red hood #barry allen #the flash #clark kent #superman #ted kord #blue beetle #michael jon carter #john henry irons #dc steel #ted grant #wildcat dc #carter hall #hawkman #rick tyler #hourman #wally west #green lantern #kyle rayner #rex mason #metamorpho dc #steve trevor

[dailydccomics]

Justice League of America by Ed Benes and Brian Miller

#clark kent #bruce wayne #diana prince #dc comics #superwonderbat #mari mccabe #dinah lance #hal jordan #zatanna zatara #dc #arthur curry #red tornado #roy harper #JLA #justice league of america #wally west #kendra saunders #karen starr #john stewart #buddy baker #beatriz da costa #comics #cover art #ed benes #superman #batman #wonder woman #green lantern

[buttholes]

Everything you have ever known. Everything that is, was, and shall be. It's only a hallucination.

↳ Animal Man #19 (1990)

#animal man #buddy baker #comicedit #dcedit #*mine #*graphics

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"That Really Happened?!" DC Comics Tournament Entry #24

Animal Man discovers the Fourth Wall

[ID: Comic panel close up of Buddy Baker who turns towards the audience, eyes wide in shock and says, "I can see you!" /END ID]

What Happened?

After the tragic death of his family, Buddy Baker (aka Animal Man) takes peyote with a friend and has hallucinations where he finds out that his life has been repeatedly retconned into what it is today. He encounters a previously retconned version of himself who was rendered sterile after exposure to the radiation that gave him superpowers and thus couldn't have the kids that Buddy just lost. Buddy wants to know who has been causing the retcons and is told to look behind him. From a single comic panel, Buddy looks out in fear as he sees past the Fourth Wall, looking directly at the comic book reading audience.

What's pretty wild about this all is that a) his knowledge of the Fourth Wall continues far beyond this story and b) they never use it for jokey, joke Deadpool-style humor of addressing the audience. It's fully addressed as a cosmic horror story to be viewed by millions of readers and having zero control over your own life or privacy from watching eyes. He has a full-on existential crisis over this and everything. And yet he still has to go to other series like Justice League Europe and pretend that everything is still as it was.

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#dc-polls-trh #dc comics #buddy baker #animal man

[evilhorse]

Justice League International #24

#justice league international #jli #guy gardner #the flash #wally west #fire #beatriz da costa #blue beetle #ted kord #animal man #buddy baker #metamorpho #captain atom #ice #tora olafsdotter #wonder woman #elongated man #ralph dibny #booster gold #michael jon carter #martian manhunter #j’onn j’onzz #rocket red #homage #kevin maguire #dc comics #mister Miracle #Batman #comics #80s comics

[wheelsgoroundincircles]

Richard Petty and Buddy Baker 1972

#richard petty #car #cars #buddy baker #nascar #stock car racing

[comicarthistory]

The origin of Animal Man, from 52 #19. 2006. Art by Brian Bolland.

#dc comics #dc universe #justice league #animal man #buddy baker #brian bolland #mark waid #grant morrison

[hawkzeyes]

If you don’t shut up 😭 this man was having a CRISIS

Animal Man #6 (1988-1995)

#hawkman #how lovely…to see you here #buddy baker #animal man #dc #dc comics #comic panels

[comicsiswild]

Animal Man (1988) #13

#animal man #buddy baker #freedom beast #dc #dc comics #vertigo #vertigo comics

[bearforceone3]

animal man sketch page because i started reading his book

#my art #dc comics #animal man #buddy baker #he comes off as a dude who’d make a podcast because he has a lot of free time #This Ain’t Your Dad’s Zoo with Animal Man: Episode 1: I Am Not Booster Gold Please Leave Me Alone #(his kids listen to it so please no mean comments) #he listens to dad rock and jungle music btw

[theflashzoom]

#alan scott #green lantern #michael jon carter #booster gold #adam strange #buddy baker #animal man #barry allen #the flash #oliver queen #green arrow #arthur curry #aquaman #sanderson hawkins #dc sandman #brainiac 5 #dc comics #dc polls #justice league

[dailydccomics]

around the world with the Justice League! Justice League International Annual #3

#justice league #dc comics #power girl #kara zor l #ted kord #blue beetle #justice league international #beatriz da costa #fire #guy gardner #green lantern #booster gold #tora olafsdotter #captain atom #dc #jli #buddy baker #animal man #scott free #mister miracle #wally west #flash #comics #jli annual #cover art

[the-antiapocalyptic-man]

Animal Man: Buddy Baker and a manifestation of the Great Red Beast, modeled off Buddy's chimera animal form from the Vertigo run

One thing I wanted to do early on when developing the headverse was tie together the various systems of the DC multiverse closer together, kinda of inspired with what James Robinson was trying to do near the beginning of Earth-2, but got lost under later writers. Robinson explicitly tied Alan's powers to The Green, with Will Power acting more as a conduit than an abstract green goo energy source unto itself.

I always wanted to do something similar with the Red Lanterns being tied to The Red (or the Morphogenetic Field) and specifically a figure that ended being underutilized in Earth-2, The Great Red Beast.

So in canon, The Great Red Beast ended up just being a transformed Yelena Montez, trapped in that state after accessing The Red. Since its a parallel universe, any relationship between The Beast and The Butcher (Earth-1/Earth-0's Red Lantern Entity) is never explicated upon. Which, to be fair, there's no look into whether Earth-2's other Light Spectrum Avatars have equivalents to Ion, Adara, Nekron, or the Life Entity, but The Beast is so similar its counterpart that it's a little strange not to dig into.

This is all to say I want to take that canon and shift it a bit so that Avatars of the Red are, in a way, a different group of Red Lanterns. Red Lanterns on a cosmic level all exist as extensions of Atros becoming Atrocitus and manipulating the narrative to make himself THE Red Lantern through which all others become tools of his rage, even as Red Lantern stories have shown characters like Bleez, Rankorr, and even Dex-Starr becoming more self-aware and operating independently of Atros' will.

Buddy, Vixen, Beast Boy, and to a degree even Wildcat (Ted, Yelena, and Tommy) all kind of exist as possible examples of another way to exist as Red Lanterns, with Brother Blood being the counterpoint that wants to embrace Atrocitus and his discipline.

idk I haven't typed out a big lore dump on one of these posts in a while and wanted to get some thoughts out and collected.

tl;dr Animal Man is a Red Lantern in my au

#dc #fanart #headverse #au #redesign #animal man #buddy baker #the great red beast

[bish-0-p]

animal man reading guide.

i recently finished reading just about every appearance for buddy baker aka animal man, so i figured i would try my hand at making a guide! if there are any mistakes, feel free to correct me <3.

buddy's first appearance is in Strange Adventures #180

Strange Adventures #184, #190, #195, #201

Wonder Woman (1942) #267 & #268

Action Comics #552 & #553

DC Comics Presents #77 & 78

Crisis on Infinite Earths #10-12

Animal Man (1988) #1-6

Invasion! #2-3

Animal Man #7-8

Justice League International #24

Animal Man #9-11

from here, buddy has joined justice league europe. that content is skippable, but if you want to read it it's Justice League Europe #1-12. continue reading animal man alongside it. i switched between them

Animal Man #12-26 is the rest of the morrison run. this is THE essential run. if you read anything, read morrison's run

Animal Man #27-32 is the milligan run. it continues the horror elements of morrison's run with a theme of "loss of control"

Animal Man #33-50 is the veitch and dillon run, and it expands on the theme of loss of control by having buddy lose control of his life, arguably his family, and his powers for the ten thousandth time

Animal Man #51-79 is the delano run, and it's my second favorite run of the series. this run is all about buddy taking control back over his life in the form of literally becoming a god

Animal Man #80-89 is the prosser and harper run, which i heavily disliked because it went a completely opposite direction. it also marks the end of the series and the last we see of buddy for a bit

Aquaman #35

Resurrection Man #25-27

Hawkman (1986) #16-17

now we get into the infinite crisis/52 era. there's a lot of jumping

Identity Crisis #1 & #7

JLA #119

Infinite Crisis #2

Outsiders (2003) #31

Firestorm (2004) #20

Infinite Crisis #3

Outsiders #32

Firestorm #21

Infinite Crisis #6-7

52 #5-9, #16-20, #28, #31-33, #35-37, #43, #47, #51-52

Countdown to Adventure #1-8

from here you could read Rann-Thanagar Holy War, it's optional

Justice League of America (2006) #26-27

Blackest Night #5-8

Flashpoint #5

Animal Man (2011) #1-11

Swamp Thing (2011) #11-12

Animal Man #12-17

Swamp Thing #17

Animal Man #18-22

Justice League Dark (2011) #23

Animal Man #23-29

Justice League United #0-16

from here, buddy is mostly only seen in cameos. most of them aren't worth reading for buddy alone, but i enjoyed The Flash #790-791

and there you have it! if there are any additional suggestions or questions, please feel free to comment, dm me, or send me an ask <3

#dc #dc comics #buddy baker #buddy baker dc #animal man #animal man dc #dc reading order #reading order #animal man reading order #dc reading guide #reading guide #dc reading list #reading list

[evilhorse]

Justice League America #32

#justice league america #jla #justice league europe #jle #Batman #Bruce Wayne #mister miracle #scott free #animal man #buddy baker #zombies #the Teasdale imperative #crossover #team up #adam hughes #dc comics #comics #80s comics

[wheelsgoroundincircles]

Buddy Baker's #6 Dodge Daytona

#buddy baker #car #cars #dodge daytona #dodge #nascar #stock car racing