![]() ![]() ![]() In issue #5 he said, "Nope, I'm going in a different direction, Alan Moore," and then he went off and into the metafictional realm. I don't think there was a necessarily an ambition on Grant's part other than to get work at DC.ĭefinitely. I would assume he chose Animal Man simply because Animal Man wasn't being used and he could take a comical and completely absurd in-a-great-Silver-Age-way character and do something that was more serious and had more resonance in the post-modern age, much in the way Alan Moore would take a ridiculous character like Marvelman and update him for the '80s. The B'Wana Beast would come back and it would be this dark and twisted look at animal experimentation. So he came up with the "Animal Man" pitch, which he pretty clearly based on the Alan Moore-style approach to superheroes, and he only envisioned it being four issues. ![]() ![]() Even more than breaking new ground in comic books, which he thought "Arkham Asylum" would do, Grant wanted DC to like his writing. And so he quickly came up with "Animal Man," I guess because Animal Man was obscure and he wanted something that would sell he wanted something DC would buy. He says that he had the "Arkham Asylum" thing well worked out that was his big pitch, and then he realized on the train that he didn't have anything else. ![]()
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