Of the books listed, I'm only picking up Batgirl, Green Lantern & Red Lanterns. It's kind of hard to recommend the books to you, as many of them have yet to be released. I picked up Batgirl out of curiosity. I'll be buying the Lantern books solely for the art. I'm surprised Justice League isn't among your possible titles, as you strongly hinted at an admiration for Jim Lee's artwork. You can add my voice to the ones recommending Animal Man to you. I didn't take to the art at all, but it's a very good story. For the record, Animal Man started off in the DC Universe proper. He was introduced, in 1965, in a title called Strange Adventures. After two appearances, he languished in obscurity before being revived by Grant Morrison in the post-Crisis Dc Universe. While Animal Man is generally remembered as being a Vertigo title, it did not become so until it's 57th issue, during Jamie Delano's run as writer of the series. As soon as Delano took over the writing chores, with issue #51, Animal Man did start carrying a "Mature Readers" label. During Morrison's run on the title, Animal Man was also appearing in Justice League Europe, being one of it's founding members. Animal Man came to it's conclusion in 1995. After that, the character made sporadic guest appearances in various DC titles, like Aquaman & Justice League, before gaining some prominence in DC's 52 mini series.
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