We’re four episodes in, and Rotworld is still engaged in rising action. Frankenstein and his crew push through to the final line of Arcane’s defenses, and the Baker family regains their humanity just in time to witness a horrifying scene. Readers who have stood by this title through its extended build-up are likely to appreciate the significant changes to power dynamics.
Even with writer Jeff Lemire providing two major developments in this book, it’s very apparent that the main event is yet to come. Frequently, the tendency is to dwell on such plot points for too long, so you might think that it’s a good thing that the story races along without much fanfare. In this case, though, it would have been nice if the events in Animal Man #16 felt a bit more momentous.
The linework for the book is split between Steve Pugh and the team of Timothy Green II and Joseph Silver. Pugh gives some nice scale to the issue’s main villain and quietly slots some startling images into his illustrations. Again, it would have been nice if more attention had been drawn to those frames, but they do their job effectively.
Green’s renderings of Maxine were a bit of a disappointment, however. She seems uncharacteristically mature and dynamic in Green’s pages, as the artist seems to eschew the character’s young and innocent angle for an indication of her coming of age.
The cameo-powered climax of Rotworld may still be lurking in the future, but this month’s installment of Animal Man is a tale worth your money. You may not get the emotional catharsis that you’ve been waiting for, but the story is engrossing enough to make the trip an enjoyable one.
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