Comic Title: Animal Man:Born to Be Wild TPB
Publisher: DC
Imprint: Vertigo
Cover Date: 2013
On Sale Date: February 20, 2013 Direct Market Date February 20, 2013
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Direct Market Date February 13, 2013
Source: Previews, #290

Cover Price: $19.99
Page Count: 288
Editor: Scott Nybakken

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "The Naked After-Noon Snack"
Pages: 24

Feature(s):
Animal Man (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Peter Milligan
Penciller: Chas Truog
Inker: Mark Farmer
Letterer: John Costanza
Colorist: Tatjana Wood

Reprinted From:
Animal Man #28 (1990)

Feature Character(s)

• Animal Man (last appearance in Animal Man #27; next appearance in Animal Man #29)

Supporting Character(s)

• Ellen Baker (last appearance in Animal Man #27; next appearance in Animal Man #29)
• Nowhere Man (a CIA agent; first appearance; next appearance in Animal Man #29)

Villain(s)

• Front Page (dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Notional Man (first appearance; next appearance in Animal Man #29)

Other Character(s)

• Mike (last appearance in Animal Man #27; next appearance in Animal Man #29)
• A police detective (no further appearances)
• Cindy (a hooker; no further appearances)
• Uncle Barney (a circus owner; in flashback; no further appearances)
• Lizard Girl (in flashback; no further appearances)
• An unnamed babysitter (no further appearances)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Lucinda Angel (in a photo)
• Matthew Angel (in a photo)
• Mark Angel (in a photo)

Comments:
This story is continued from Animal Man #27 and continues in Animal Man #29.

Synopsis:
Animal Man is questioned by the police following the incident in which he bit into the neck of a police horse. The CIA arranges for his release from custody. Buddy then does some checking and discovers many historical facts are not correct. Since waking from his coma, history is different.

Buddy returns home to find his wife in bed with another man. He beats the man up, then claims that Ellen belongs to him now. Ellen throws him out of the house. During the fight a strange CIA agent named the Nowhere Man enters. He tries to conscript Buddy on a mission to protect the president.

Buddy's conversation is interrupted by an attack by two former associates of Nowhere Man. Buddy is overcome with violence and bludgeons Front Page to death. Later, the other named Notional Man, plants a bomb which destroys a nightclub.