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Buddy's back home.

  • It's a bit twisted but Mirror Master shows Even Evil Has Standards and helps Buddy on his Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
  • One of the aspects of the Pre-Crisis era Morrison featured was a Justice League counterpart called the Love Syndicate of Dreamworld. Sunshine Superman believed by the end his appearance if he went back into comic limbo, he'd never appear again. Well years later, Morrison brought the entirety of the Love Syndicate back on their own world, Earth-47, in The Multiversity. Sunshine Superman also appeared among the Supermen of the Multiverse in Final Crisis, well before Earth-47 was established as his new home. It's sweet how Morrison's frequently given the Love Syndicate roles to play as if to indicate they’d make sure they wouldn't be forgotten like Sunshine Superman feared.
  • In their final fourth wall shattering issue on the book, Grant Morrison spends much of it musing that Buddy's life is fictional, and that doing things like killing off his family for drama are simply things that need to be done for the sake of writing. But after hearing Buddy's angst, and recalling their own childhood imaginary friend, Grant has a change of heart and feels that even fictional characters deserve to be treated with some kindness. They give Buddy the Deus Ex Machina he pleaded for, and brings his family back to life.
  • Pictured above. The Milligan run puts Baker through hell, but when Buddy finally reunites with his family... It's all worth it.
    • The same issue also has Buddy bidding goodbye to a Nowhere Man who is slowly regaining his humanity, followed by a brotherly hug. In general Nowhere Man considers Animal Man his friend and constantly sticks with him despite the odds.
  • Cliff is upset that when Maxine goes out with Buddy, they fly, but they always walk together. Later, Cliff tries to hit on two girls, one of whom was wearing an Animal Man t-shirt, and says his dad is Animal Man. They, naturally, don't believe him. Then Buddy shows up and says "Cliff, we gotta go... that was the Justice League, they need us!" and flies Cliff away.

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