Swamp ThingBook 1: Saga of the Swamp Thing
Written By Alan Moore
Art by Stephen Bissette and John Totleben
1998
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Swamp ThingBook 2: Love and Death
Written by Alan Moore
Art by Stephen Bissette, John Totleben and Shawn McManus
1999
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Swamp ThingBook 3: The Curse
Written by Alan Moore
Art by Stephen Bissette and John Totleben
2000
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Swamp ThingBook 4: A Murder of Crows
Written by Alan Moore
Art by Stephen Bissette and John Totleben
2001
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Swamp ThingBook 5: Earth to Earth
Written by Alan Moore
Art by Stephen Bissette, John Totleben, Rick Veitch, and Alfredo Alcala
2002
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Swamp ThingBook 6: Reunion
Written by Alan Moore
Art by Stephen Bissette and John Totleben
2003
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Swamp Thing was Moore's first big break into American comics. Taking over the reins of a character orginally created by DC in 1971 and only re-releaseled in 1982 because of a (lousy) Wes Craven film - Swamp Thing was a nothing character going nowhere (blah Alec Holland blah scientist working in the Louisina swamps blah secret bio-restorative formula blah killed by a bomb blah reborn as a humanoid plant thing blah). Apparently it was only given to Alan Moore because - seeing how nobody really read it - even if he screwed it up it won't really do any harm. Instead he transformed the character and the series into a breakthrough hit. Taking the reins in 1983 Moore starting off by touching on typical environmental themes (cutting down trees = bad) and trying to tell a dark horror-style comic (there are werewolves and underwater vampires for those that want them) but then it soon grew to become something that stretched the limits to what kind of story you could tell in a 'superhero' comic book before those limits snapped and it mutated and flowered into a new thing entirely - (things get kinda strange but also kinda totally amazing). Just so you know: it's a DC Comic there are lots of guest appearances by other characters (Batman, the Spectre, the Demon, Deadman, Adam Strange and the Phantom Stranger to name a few) but all of them so nicely interwoven into the main story that things never feels that aburpt. But yeah. Worth reading. Still one of the best sagas in comics.
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Links: The Hooded Utilitarian:Muck Encrusted Mockery of a Roundtable, IGN Article on Swamp Thing, The M0vie Blog Review, Tearoom of Despair Review of Swamp Thing #60.
Further reading: The Sandman, Hellblazer, Neil Gaiman's Midnight Days, V for Vendetta, Locke & Key, Gravel, DC Universe: The Stories of Alan Moore, The One, Animal Man, Planetary, Daredevil (2001 - 2006), Hitman, Promethea, Neonomicon.
Profiles: Alan Moore.
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