Animal Man

With all the reboots that Marvel and DC are lauding, and the mass exodus of talented creators leaving the big two, it's easy to see that mainstream superhero comics are going swiftly down the drain...if they weren't down it already. So when people talk about there favorite superheroes, they rarely talk about how good the comics that star that superhero are. The real question is: What is the best superhero comic? For me, it isn't Watchmen or any Batman comic. It's Grant Morrison's Animal Man

The first 26 issues of Animal Man, written by Morrison, relaunched after the Crisis continuity event, heavily featured tons of environmental issues and surrealism.

Blue Beetle doesn't do shit

The most complicated origin story ever 

Morison as an author brings many new things to superhero comics, which for the most part are ignored by the community at large. The character, the everyman Buddy Baker, is completely generic. But that's the point

Yes these are the coolest superheroes ever

The most innovative part of Animal Man, the part that makes it the best superhero comic ever, it the fact that Morrison introduces the DC continuity into the plot, and then obscure characters fight the DC Universe in order to escape oblivion. It's complicated. Typical Morrison
 

They seeeeeeee yyouuuuuuuuuu

The comic also breaks the fourth wall in a major way, for Animal Man travels through it and to our universe's  Glasgow and has a chat with Morrison himself. (According to Morrison's later work, All-Star Superman, our universe is created by Superman) 

You could be Aquaman. That would be worse 

Not anymore

Oh Elongated Man 

Well that's all for Animal Man. The Morrison run is now published by Vertigo in 3 neat trade paperbacks if you want them. See you next time