Animal Man by Grant Morrison 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition #2

In "Spooks," Jo and her family confront unsettling echoes of the past when Maxine believes she sees her father again, and Ellen senses something watching from the shadows. Buddy, drawn in by the same ghostly figure he once glimpsed as a child, begins to unravel a mystery tied to a house marked with the cryptic numbers 9 and 27—numbers eerily echoed by Cliff and his friends after a séance with a Ouija board.

In "Consequences," Animal Man finds himself at the center of a growing animal rights movement, his role as a spokesperson forcing him to confront the limits of his own convictions. Meanwhile, Mirror Master's uneasy alliance with Mr. Lennox reaches a breaking point, and at the Baker household, James Highwater arrives with his own unresolved struggles.

In "At Play in the Fields of the Lord," Animal Man joins James Highwater on a journey to Arizona for a peyote vision quest, where the boundaries between spirit and reality blur. As they navigate the desert’s ancient rhythms, Jo uncovers unsettling truths about the source of his powers—and the looming shadow of a second Crisis yet to come.

In "A New Science of Life," Buddy Baker confronts a haunting vision of the original Animal Man from Strange Adventures, a figure who challenges his place in the legacy. Waking from the dream, Buddy returns home to face the weight of his deepest loss, where the past and present blur in the quiet aftermath.

In the wake of unimaginable loss, Buddy recovers from a deep despair only to receive a cryptic phone call that shatters his fragile peace. Meanwhile, a shadowy government group prepares to unveil a chilling new weapon for Mr. Lennox, their motives as opaque as the figures behind the project.

In "Crisis," Animal Man finds himself caught between timelines as he debates fate and free will with the Phantom Stranger, Immortal Man, and Jason Blood in a past he’s traveled to. Back in the present, Psycho Pirate’s reckless resurrection of forgotten and newly forged characters sends shockwaves through reality—until the aliens and James Hightower call upon Animal Man to face a threat even they may not survive.

In "Purification Day," Animal Man confronts the unsettling truth of his fictional existence, joining forces with James Highwater to send comic book characters back into limbo. As the aliens return him to his world, he's left grappling with a haunting question: who—or what—is behind the suffering he endures?

In "Monkey Puzzles," Animal Man ventures into a graveyard of forgotten characters, guided by a dying monkey whose scribbled script holds the key to a mysterious journey. Following the monkey’s final instructions, he travels to Grant Morrison’s home—only to find himself years later, back where he started.