Comic Title: Animal Man Omnibus HC
Publisher: DC
Imprint: Vertigo
Cover Date: 2013
On Sale Date: July 31, 2013 Direct Market Date July 31, 2013
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Direct Market Date July 31, 2013
Source: Previews, #294

Cover Price: $75.00
Page Count: 712

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "A New Science of Life"
Pages: 24

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

Writer: Grant Morrison
Penciller: Chas Truog
Inker: Doug Hazlewood
Letterer: John Costanza
Colorist: Tatjana Wood

Reprinted From:
Animal Man #19 (1990)

Feature Character(s)

• Animal Man (last appearance in Animal Man #18; next appearance in Animal Man #20)

Supporting Character(s)

• Ellen Baker (dies in this story; last appearance in Animal Man #18; next appearance in Animal Man #26)
• Cliff Baker (dies in this story; last appearance in Animal Man #18; next appearance in Animal Man #26)
• Maxine Baker (dies in this story; last appearance in Animal Man #18; next appearance in Animal Man #26)

Other Character(s)

• James Highwater (last appearance in Animal Man #18; next appearance in Animal Man #22)

Comments:
This story is continued from Animal Man #18 and continues in Animal Man #20.

Synopsis:
Buddy and James Highwater continue their peyote hallucination atop a mesa in Arizona. Buddy confronts the nature of reality and his powers. During his altered mental state he is confronted by a different version of himself from another reality. He also has the sensation that he is a character in a story.

After the peyote wears off, Buddy returns home to find his wife and children have been murdered.