Swamp Thing - Softcover

Rick Veitch; Alfredo Alcalá; John Totleben

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1845762606 ISBN 13: 9781845762605

Publisher: Titan Books Ltd, 2006

Synopsis

Swamp Thing and Abby Arcane have conceived a child, with the help of master magician John Constantine (Hellblazer), which they intend to become the new Earth elemental. But, then Swamp Thing is cut adrift in time, and all the many wonders he has seen will pale next to his latest odyssey!

About this title

From Booklist

When Alan Moore relinquished writing Swamp Thing in 1987 after transforming it from a third-rate horror comic into a wildly imaginative, hugely influential title, he left impossibly huge shoes to fill. Artist Veitch assumed the scripting duties and, remarkably enough, maintained the high quality while proceeding in the direction Moore had taken by focusing on ecological themes and spiritual matters. The stories in this collection deal with the search for a human body to host a new earth-elemental that, like Swamp Thing, would have dominion over the planet's plant life. After initial attempts fail--one results in the creation of a deranged version of himself--Swamp Thing devises a solution that requires the unwitting participation of cynical sorcerer John Constantine, whose prominent role in these stories generated a crossover into events in Hellblazer, the comic starring him. The absence of the Hellblazer stories is regrettable, and still these pieces show how much life remained in Swamp Thing, at least for the two years Veitch soldiered on after Moore. Gordon Flagg
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Edition details

• Publisher: Titan Books Ltd
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1845762606
• ISBN 13: 9781845762605
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 160