It didn’t fit back into Final Crisis as well as it left, but so what. I love that the metatext has got folks thinking meta-phorically: first Mandrakk is Mandrake, and now he’s Alan Moore. Maybe Frank Miller, if you compare All-Stars. Merryman in Limbo, crazy-ass Ultraman—it’s taken a while, but I’ve finally gotten over the name; he shows up on no less than the twelfth page of ウルトラマンs on Google Image Search (but not without stopping at this), and even then it’s not a picture with the upside-down shield and clever FedEx-like negative space—that’s right, I got my end of Animal Man. Thanks, Grant.
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