Steve Pugh

Animal Man by Jeff Lemire Omnibus is superhero horror with a family heartbeat. Buddy Baker is not interesting here because he is powerful; he is interesting because the Red, the Rot and the violence of DC's cosmic ecology invade his home and threaten the people he is trying to protect. Lemire turns Animal Man into a story about parenthood, body horror and responsibility, while Travel Foreman and Steve Pugh make the organic nightmare feel genuinely wrong.