Comments: It's a nice straightforward story about a man who is retired from the superhero business and has decided to make a comeback. He goes throughComments: It's a nice straightforward story about a man who is retired from the superhero business and has decided to make a comeback. He goes through the motion of convincing his wife of his decision, and what entails of a superhero comeback. There is a mysterious figure who arrived in San Diego, and who might be responsible for the anomaly that happened at the end of the issue.
Synopsis with Complete Spoilers: The story starts with a man in a trench coat walking on the sides of the hi-way towards, San Diego, California. Internally he is complaining the noise, smell of the city. Then we go to Buddy Baker's neighbor, where Buddy is helping his neighbor, Mrs. Weidemeir, regain her cat that is tuck in a tree. The branch he was standing in broke and he fell. Good thing for animal powers. Just like the cat he saved, he flipped and landed on his feet. He told his neighbor, it's due to his movie stuntman training. The lady's husband didn't notice as he was just at the beach chair snoozing and drinking his lemonade. But he did tell his wife to tell Buddy Baker to get out of his garden so he can get some peace and quiet.
Buddy went home. Inside the Baker household, Buddy tells his wife he is interested in going back to the supehero-ing business full time again. It's his dream. His wife has heard this story before. Buddy explained it. He'll be doing magazine interviews, talk shows, personal appearances, so that he can help pay the bills. Ellen tells him dream don't pay the rent. Their children join in, an obnoxious son, and a cute daughter, who gets into a typical sibling argument that is started with the older brother teasing the younger sister. Meanwhile, in an urban part of San Diego, the man with the trench coat is in an alleyway. He is screaming in agony from the pain of various screaming, and city foul smelling odors. He removes his helmet and leans against the side of a building. A man with a gun approached him. Faster than a snake, he grabs the hand with the gun and crushed it with the strength of a buffalo. The criminal screamed, and the trenched-coated man punches him in the face and throws him back out in the mainstream street. He ran to get away as the screaming is getting louder in his head.
Buddy convinced his wife that he is going back to the superhero gig. He'll utilize the next several days to train. On his first day, he and his wife go fishing in a nearby stream. He practiced breathing underwater like a fish. The second day he practiced his flying skills like a bird in a mountaintop. On the third day they are in a desert and he raced his wife who was driving the car. He was fast as an ant. On the fourth day, he was talking to his agent and friend Roger, about the superhero gig. Roger got him a talking engagement in the Dick Griffith Show. Things are looking good for Buddy Baker. Later that evening, the trench-coated man drank some liquid from a corked bottle. And somehow he is no longer discombobulated. He made his way through the top of buildings until he arrived at STAR Laboratories San Diego Division. The screaming is getting louder in his head. And on the fifth day, Buddy is in front of the television motioning for his entire family to watch his interview on television. Unfortunately, many of the good parts were cut off and only the bad parts were left on where Buddy Baker came across as a joke. He was called "the human zoo."
The next day, Buddy received a call from Roger. He changed into his Animal Man costume and told his wife that STAR Labs saw him on the talk show and needed his help. Something about a break in. Buddy is pumped up for this and is in good spirits. He's back in the superhero business. In another part of town, inside a forest, there are four middle aged men, hunting birds and drinking and hanging out for the weekend.
Arriving at STAR Labs, Buddy is met by Dr. Myers who told him he was expecting someone like Superman. On the way to the laboratory, they talked about his Buddy's powers. They then arrived in a Bio-Hazard marked doorway. When they went inside it is a mess as if a hurricane passed by and damaged every laboratory equipment. And surprisingly metal doors were bent and ripped off the hinges as if done by someone with super-strength. He told Buddy that the problem is not about the break-in. And he showed him the problem, behind the ripped steel doors is a thing that resembled numerous moneys combined together to form a monstrous blob....more
Richard Kenneth
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