Mar 30th 2011 By: Laura Hudson
and he's the best.
April 26 2011 at 8:46 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThese articles are great. I check back here all the time just to read these.
April 06 2011 at 1:43 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplySo... did you guys know about the Brightest Day reveal in advance?
April 06 2011 at 9:17 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWe did not, we are just eerily prescient.
April 06 2011 at 2:50 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyHoly shit.
Wait wouldn't that be Constantine's baby, I mean. Oh Yeah comics.
Which issues are written by Alan Moore? Those seem to be the most recommended.
To fully appreciate Swamp Thing, you must read the online annotations site. It points out and explains all the ingenious plot points and cultural references of the Alan Moore/Rick Veitch years of Swamp Thing. Including the lost Jesus issue.
http://www.tinyurl.com/readswampthing
That must be the most user unfriendly site I have seen in a while. I mean really that brings me all the way back to the times when I used Netscape navigator.
With that out of the way yes the information is very good.
man I miss Swamp Thing
March 30 2011 at 11:56 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplySwamp Thing doesn't have such a strange convoluted history that it warranted this. The previous ones have been far superior!
March 30 2011 at 7:45 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyActually, this could have been about five panels longer considering all the "reboots" it left out.
March 30 2011 at 7:26 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyDespite being the poster boy for retcons, I don't think Swamp Thing's history is more convoluted than any other superhero character. His basic origins are explained in the first issue, and then "The Anatomy Lesson". All that other stuff is just comic-booky stuff that happened to him.
OK, I guess Tefe needs a bit of explanation, but still.
I always get Swamp Thing confused with Man-Thing
March 30 2011 at 3:32 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyRead Alan moores run and you won't confuse them any more. Awesome article!!
March 30 2011 at 4:47 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplySwamp Thing > Man-Thing > Garbage Man.
And really, isn't it kind of weird for DC to publish a character that blatantly rips off one of their existing character's origins? It's not even a coincidence, Aaron Lopresti has stated outright that he had Swamp Thing in mind when he created the character:
Lopresti: I originally created Garbageman at the urging of Dan DiDio. The DCU needed a monster/hero character to replace Swamp Thing which at the time was being held captive by Vertigo. I am not sure if that is still the case now. So I started developing this character about three years ago with classic Swamp Thing by [Bernie] Wrightson and [Len] Wein) in mind. My intent then and now was to create a character that was both familiar yet at the same time different. I really wanted to revisit the monster as superhero genre that had a run in the 70's. Characters like Swamp Thing, Man-Thing, The Golem, The Living Mummy, Werewolf by Night, etc. Fun adventure books that just happened to have monsters as the lead characters.
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