A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “The best thing to come out of the DC relaunch. Absolutely  knocked it out of the park ….Gold stars for the creative team.” – io9 As a part of the acclaimed DC Comics—The New 52 event of September 2011, Animal Man Buddy Baker, has gone from "super" man to family man–but is he strong enough to hold his family together when Maxine, his young daughter, starts to manifest her own dangerous powers? As these new abilities continue to terrify Buddy and his wife Ellen, things take a turn for the worse as Buddy begins a startling transformation of his own that will lead him on a journey into the heart of The Red. Collected here are the first 6 issues of this dramatic new series from writer Jeff Lemire ( Sweet Tooth ) and artist Travel Foreman ( The Immortal Iron Fist )! This volume collect issues 1-6 of Animal Man , part of the DC Comics—The New 52 event.