Comic Title: Animal Man #19
Publisher: DC (DC Comics Inc.)
Address: 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Imprint: Vertigo
Cover Date: January 1990
On Sale Date: November 28, 1989 Shipping Date November 28, 1989
Source: Previews, #9

Shipping Date November 28, 1989
Source: Amazing Heroes, #173

Shipping Date November 30, 1989
Source: Advance Comics, #11

Direct Market Date November 30, 1989
Source: Comic Shop News, #125, #126

Copyright Date November 28, 1989
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1989

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

Title: "A New Science of Life"
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:Deus Ex Machina TPB (2003)
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 Animal Man #18; next appearance in Animal Man #20)

Supporting Character(s)

• Ellen Baker (dies in this story; last appearance in Animal Man #18; next appearance in Animal Man #26)
• Cliff Baker (dies in this story; last appearance in Animal Man #18; next appearance in Animal Man #26)
• Maxine Baker (dies in this story; last appearance in Animal Man #18; next appearance in Animal Man #26)

Other Character(s)

• James Highwater (last appearance in Animal Man #18; next appearance in Animal Man #22)

Comments:
This story is continued from Animal Man #18 and continues in Animal Man #20.

Synopsis:
Buddy and James Highwater continue their peyote hallucination atop a mesa in Arizona. Buddy confronts the nature of reality and his powers. During his altered mental state he is confronted by a different version of himself from another reality. He also has the sensation that he is a character in a story.

After the peyote wears off, Buddy returns home to find his wife and children have been murdered.