Swamp Thing VOL 04: A Murder of Crows

Dubiously aided by mystic John Constantine, Swamp Thing is revealed to be an elemental whose power spans the globe and whose voyage takes him from the most visceral horrors of a haunted house to breaking his earthly roots and traversing the afterlife. A Graphic Novel. Original.

How did the DC character most noted for simplicity handle the hyper-complexity of the Crisis on Infinite Earths? In the ever-able hands of Alan Moore, Swamp Thing: A Murder of Crows rises above the mid-1980s corporate reorganization to grant our hero his apotheosis into his current plant elemental form. Fans of John Constantine will eat up the smart-aleck astral con man's performance throughout, and the central struggle--uniting good and evil against something much bigger and older than either--is classic Moore. The art is bold and beautiful, organic by necessity, and contributes as much to the reader's suspense as the script. It seems that Moore et al. have spent so much time transcending their medium that they may have created a new one of their own. --Rob Lightner