Comics! Animal Man #17

Animal Man #17

Writers: Jeff Limire & Scott Snyder
Artist: Steve Pugh (Pages 1-4, 10-11, 14-20)
Penciller: Timothy Green II (Pages 5-9, 12-13)
Inker: Joseph Silver (Pages 5-9, 12-13)

Solicitation and Preview

Review
Quick recap for Rotworld - We had a Prologue for both Swamp Thing and Animal Man, we had an annual from Swamp Thing that went into the Rotworld mythos, we had four issues each for Swamp Thing and Animal Man, and now a we start a four part finale. So 15 comic to tell this whole story.

Why?

What we have seen so far doesn't really amount to a big as a crossover as this feels. Let's call this what it is - over hyped. This story really feels stretched out. Readers were told that these two series would crossover big and it would be grand and all this and all that. I am a bigger fan of Animal Man than I am Swamp thing, and I just feel like both of them have drug each other down and have essentially followed the same plot points that if I had known this is how the story would have unfolded then I would have stuck just with one of these books, if that.

What we are dealing with here is an alternate dimension story. And I'm sorry, but I have little to care for with characters of alternate stories where it doesn't feel like anything that happens here will matter in the regular universe (and for those who have read Swamp Thing #17, now you see why).This is a big battlefield where everything is going crazy yet I just don't see why I should care.

The big thing that DC promoted on its website was the fact that there is a death of a Green Lantern in this book, and then there is a surprise new Green Lantern. The magic of the new Green Lantern is only around for a page, and I just shrug about it.

Padded isn't the right word, but it is the first word that comes to mind.

Grades
Words: 4/10
Pictures: 5/10
General Feeling After Reading: Blargh.
Buy Next Issue: I've traveled this far, might as well go for one more.