Chas Truog

The Animal Man Omnibus collects Grant Morrison's complete, career-launching run. Morrison reinvents B-list hero Buddy Baker — a stuntman and family man who draws powers from the "morphogenetic field" — as an animal-rights activist grappling with real ethical weight. The run grows famously metafictional, building to the moment Buddy literally meets his own writer. Blending superheroics with environmental and philosophical themes, it is one of the landmark works that helped seed the Vertigo imprint. Art by Chas Truog, covers by Brian Bolland.