Comic Title: Animal Man #17
Publisher: DC (DC Comics Inc.)
Address: 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Imprint: Vertigo
Cover Date: November 1989
On Sale Date: September 26, 1989 Shipping Date September 26, 1989
Source: Amazing Heroes, #171

Copyright Date September 26, 1989
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1989

Shipping Date September 28, 1989
Source: Advance Comics, #9

Direct Market Date September 28, 1989
Source: Comic Shop News, #115, #116, #118

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $1.50
Page Count: 32
Editor: Karen Berger

Title: "Consequences"
Pages: 24

Feature(s):
Animal Man (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Grant Morrison
Penciller: Chas Truog
Inker: Doug Hazlewood
Letterer: John Costanza
Colorist: Tatjana Wood

Reprinted In:
Animal Man:Origin of the Species TPB (2002)
Animal Man Omnibus HC (2013)
Animal Man by Grant Morrison 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition Vol. 2 HC (2020)

Feature Character(s)

• Animal Man (last appearance in Justice League Europe #10; next appearance in Animal Man #18)

Supporting Character(s)

• Ellen Baker (last appearance in Animal Man #16; next appearance in Animal Man #18)
• Cliff Baker (last appearance in Animal Man #14; next appearance in Animal Man #18)
• Maxine Baker (last appearance in Animal Man #14; next appearance in Animal Man #18)
• Roger Denning (last appearance in Animal Man #6; next appearance in Animal Man #18)

Villain(s)

• Mirror Master (last appearance in Animal Man #8; next appearance in Animal Man #20)
• Lennox (first name Jim revealed; last appearance in Animal Man #16; next appearance in Animal Man #18)

Other Character(s)

• James Highwater (last appearance in Animal Man #14; next appearance in Animal Man #18)
• Dr. Whitmore and a debate moderator (no further appearances)
• A group of animal rights activists (no further appearances)

Comments:
This story continues in Animal Man #18.

Synopsis:
Buddy joins a group of animal rights activists who break into a laboratory to rescue animal test subjects. During the break-in, the leader of the group sets fire to the building. Buddy later learns that firemen were injured putting out the fire. He feels guilty that his actions harmed others.

After his wife and best friend both question his actions, Buddy decides to quit being Animal Man. First, though, he appears on a television debate over animal rights. His opponent turns his own arguments against him. When Buddy returns home, he finds James Highwater waiting for him. Highwater is slowly vanishing from existence.

Elsewhere Lennox meets with McCulloch, the new Mirror Master, to get the layout of Buddy's house.