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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Klaus" data-source="post: 2467600" data-attributes="member: 607">"Now tell me, why the Coyote, why do you persist?!"Because of that's what Wile would do.And because of this (regarding Grant Morrison's run on DC's Animal Man series):"Morrison wrote later that he initially could only plan the first four issues. Forced to come up with a plan for an ongoing series, Morrison began to lay the groundwork for the remainder of his run. #5, "The Coyote Gospel," featured a cartoon coyote (like Wile E. Coyote) named Crafty who enters our -- or at least the DC Universe's -- reality only to be shot. In the story, the coyote hands Animal Man The Gospel According to Crafty -- a text that tells of how Crafty tired of the endless violence and struck a deal with his (artistic) Creator to suffer in our world -- or the DC Universe -- in exchange for peace in his cartoon world. Crafty dies in the end, held by Animal Man, and the "camera" pulls back to show Crafty bloody on the road where it crosses, making him a Christ-figure; what's more, we see the fingers and brush of Crafty's Creator putting red blood over the image. Filled with Native American overtones of the coyote as trickster figure, and complete with a series of suggestive epilogues that hinted at the postmodern twists Morrison would later apply in the series, the issue stands as the first one that really feels like Morrison's own."</blockquote>