36 Years Later, The Single Best Comic Issue Of The 1990s Is Still Essentially Perfect

The 1990s were an incredible era of comic books, with remarkable heights in the early decade followed by notable slumping later on, despite soon being propped up by hit adaptations like 1998's Blade. It was arguably the grittiest decade of all for the medium, with rising antiheroes, violent visuals, and subversive storytelling that'd soon become iconic such as The Death of Superman or Knightfall ushering in a new era for iconic IPs, all while major publishers like Valiant continued to emerge and Image Comics was born. Yet, despite much of the calls for realism and grittiness, one particular issue, the final issue of Grant Morrison's Animal Man released in June 1990.