
GM: Buddy was kind of a B-lister, he was in awe of Superman when they met, he tried out and got on the Justice League of Europe, but he was still not completely at ease with his powers and was relatively untested as a hero.

PKD: You wrote him to be a vegetarian and an animal rights activist, as well as a very humanistic drawing of a superhero.

So if there are birds around, he can fly if there is a strong bull close to him he can attain great physical strength. He can borrow the powers of nearby animals for a few minutes. GM: Well, it was the late 80s, Buddy Baker / Animal Man had been a little used DC character from the 60s, appearing in some issues of Strange Adventures. PKD: Animal Man, tell me about your writing that series. GM: Em, OK, but that bright pink light is making me uncomfortable. PKD: Go Squids! But let’s talk about you … GM: Yeah, I’m looking at it and under your name is typed “insert name here” and I think it’s from Miskatonic University? PKD: That’s what the certificate on the wall says. Dick, and they discuss, among other things, Morrison's writing for the Animal Man series. Grant Morrison lays on the couch of his therapist, Dr.


He divides his time between his homes in Los Angeles and Scotland. He is also the author of the New York Times bestseller Supergods, a groundbreaking psycho-historic mapping of the superhero as a cultural organism. In his secret identity, Morrison is a "counterculture" spokesperson, a musician, an award-winning playwright and a chaos magician. In addition to expanding the DC Universe through titles ranging from the Eisner Award-winning SEVEN SOLDIERS and ALL-STAR SUPERMAN to the reality-shattering epic of FINAL CRISIS, he has also reinvented the worlds of the Dark Knight Detective in BATMAN AND ROBIN and BATMAN, INCORPORATED and the Man of Steel in The New 52 ACTION COMICS. Since then he has written such best-selling series as JLA, BATMAN and New X-Men, as well as such creator-owned works as THE INVISIBLES, SEAGUY, THE FILTH, WE3 and JOE THE BARBARIAN. Grant Morrison has been working with DC Comics for twenty five years, after beginning his American comics career with acclaimed runs on ANIMAL MAN and DOOM PATROL.
