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[[caption-width-right:996:[[HypocriticalHumour Ironically enough the Butt Monkey of the JLE was Animal Man.]]]]

!!Grant Morrison
* Issue #2 has the following exchange between a rich guy, Lester, and his girlfriend, Luna.
--> '''Lester:''' Jeez Luna, when I said you could buy a pet I didn't mean for it to be one of the extras from Film/{{Aliens}}!
--> '''Luna:''' It's a mantis, Lester. A praying mantis. [[NightmareFetishist They, like, prey on innocent little bugs who don't know any better.]] [[BitingTheHandHumour I think I'll call it "Lester"]].
* Issue #6, a pretty tragic story about a Thanagarian artist who decides as a last art piece to destroy LA with a tectonic bomb after broadcasting his entire life to the population, ends with a massive MoodWhiplash. Animal Man is screaming for help because he doesn't know how to deactivate the bomb, and all seems to be lost... Until ComicBook/{{Hawkman}} appears and just [[BoringButPractical shuts it off with a switch]].
* During the Martian Manhunter's appearance Buddy [[BrickJoke asks him why they accepted Blue Beetle as a member.]] J'onn admits he doesn't know why.
** The same issue has Buddy absorbing the playfulness of a kitty and goofily playing with him, much to the constern of Maxine of all people.
* An infamous scene has Animal Man having accidentally picked an ape's horniness, just when he is alone with MsFanservice ComicBook/{{Vixen}}, who is engaging in EroticEating. Hilarity ensues.

!!Peter Milligan
* The run opened with the grotesque image of Buddy eating a horse alive, since he was becoming much more animal-like.

!!Tom Veitch
* The Penalizer is an {{Expy}} of ComicBook/ThePunisher [[StylisticSuck that does little more than kill random people and angst about it.]] Ironically enough, [[HilariousInHindsight Steve Dillon would later go on to draw the Punisher.]] alongside his [[MyRealDaddy real daddy]], Creator/GarthEnnis.
* One part has Buddy and Ellen alone, when suddenly Cliff bites Ellen on the neck. After a {{Beat}} panel where it seems Buddy is regressing... It's revealed they are engaging in kinky foreplay. BlackComedy at its finest.
--> Nggggrrr... Me Ape Man.

!!Jamie Delano
* The ending of "Talking Turkey", the story featured in the ''Vertigo Jam'' one-shot, where Buddy is so pissed off by the turkey's dim view on humanity and disparaging remarks on the merits of his vegetarianism that he [[FlippingTheBird gives the turkey the finger as it walks away]].