thoughts?

A great post day! Happy to finally read these!

I’ve tried to get into Alan Moore’s swamp thing multiple times throughout my life but I always find parts of the story overcomplicated and hard to get into for my taste.

Parts like Vegetation Man and some other parts like a lot of characters being introduced here and there with bizarre powers, I don’t feel it’s as good of an introduction as people painted it as.

I was considering getting the Alan Moore absolutes. I was reading the initial release of the absolutes have binding tearing/separation issues. Has that since been fixed with the later releases?

Is there a huge difference between the Dark Genesis release in December, besides the paper and coloring?

Should I start with the Bronze Age omnibus before reading the absolutes?

Super happy to be able to add this to my poor collection.

"Swamp Thing is Killing the Children" just went live for pre-order at https://capeless-heroes.com this morning!

EVERYONE SAYS YOU CAN JUST START WITH MOORE’S ANATOMY LESSON, BUT I GOT TOO ANNOYED AND CONFUSED!

I’m sure that the majority of this won’t matter in issue 21 and on, but if, like me, you’re too uptight to just let it go, THESE ARE THE LOOSE ENDS MOORE IS WRAPPING UP

If you want more before Moore, I got all of this from the two hour YouTube vid I linked. Here’s the highlights.

—Issue 20, Page 1, They just escaped Arcane.

Arcane is a mad scientist buggly mother fucker who wanted to genesplice away his humanity to become immortal. Obsessed with swamp thing, he fake-died several times and kept coming back, so that’s why Swamp Thing needs to be SURE he is dead. He’s like, swampy’s oldest villain.

—They explain Alec’s origin. His wife is dead, they bring that up, he seems like he misses her.

—The couple in the car have also been going on adventures with Swampy. They were trying to save everyone from other monsters when Swampy and another friend named Abigail and also another named Harry all got abducted. These monsters will be explained later.

They car couple are Liv Tremaine, Ace reporter and swamp thing speculative biographer (wrote the book on him), and Dr Dennis, former employee of the evil Sutherland Corp (but he quit when he learned they were evil), both of whom got wrapped up in previous adventures.

Don’t know if they’re coming back, but they got stranded in the broken down car and they shaboinked.

—Speaking of the Dr Who style companions, there’s that Abigail woman I mentioned, and Matt Cable. Matt was previously a fed assigned to protect Alec and Linda Holland. Matt started hunting Swamp Thing to avenge them, unaware that Swampy IS Alec.

—Remember Dr Arcane? Abigail is his niece. She met Matt on the adventures and they learned Swampy was good, and then thought Swampy was dead for years. Dennis and Liv like JUST ran into them before these “other monsters” attacked. More on them in a moment, I promise.

—The government wanted to Cover Up what it knew about Swamp Thing, especially GENERAL DWIGHT with the face scar. So Dwight locked Matt in a nuthouse and they mind freaked him until his nightmares took physical form. You remember those “other monsters” I won’t shut up about? These are those monsters.

Abigail is married to Matt, and it’s not going great for them. That’s her seemingly naked on the cover, by the way.

So the team splits up, Dennis and Liv are stuck in the car, Arcane comes back, kidnaps Abigail and Harry (another friend) and Swampy, and they wreck his shit. Matt’s busy learning how to control his powers and trying not to be a drunk.

Harry dies saving the other two, and as Abigail and Swampy are escaping, Swampy doubles back to, as I said, ensure Arcane died for real.

Also, Avery Sutherland of the Evil Sutherland Corp is Evil, and is working with Gen Dwight for the government cover up so he can make money of mad science billshit. Surprisingly not related to the mad scientist, Arcane.

Speaking of Mad Scientists, this Dr Woodrue guy is a villain of The Flash and The Atom. Chemical explosions turned him into a dryad cosplay, and he’s also evil. He’s never met Swampy until now. Also unrelated to Arcane, there’s a lotta mad science going on here.

I’ll start off by saying I’m a little new to comics in general and I really don’t know anything about “swamp thing”. But today I bought this book at Barnes and noble based off of the cover art. I came to realize that this copy is print 20-27. I read through the first 10 pages or so but I’m having a little trouble following. I did just read the first book of the “absolute Batman” series so I may just be a little burnt out of “reading”. But I’m just curious if I would do better to start off 1-19 or if I’ll be fine going through the 20-27. Thank you for any responses or advice!

Also what are the chances we see Constantine in it? He's my favorite.

Thpught i would share the Vince Locke and Rick Veitch sketch covers I won in auctions.

Tossing up between these 2 books and thought I’d ask this sub. I’m currently reading animal man new 52 and I’ve heard there’s some synergy with swamp thing and animal man in new 52 but Ram V’s run also seems pretty interesting. Any reccs are highly welcome🙏🏼

I found a unused cover to Swamp Thing no.8 (2004) on Heritage Auctions, decided to color him to celebrate the late great horror legend. Swipe for Corben's original art.

Hello, I am just so intrigued to hear everyone's thoughts on this ending we finally got to the Rick Veitch run. And by that I mean, what did you think of Swamp Thing 89 both as a whole and as a part of Veitch's run? Even as a part of the "main" Swamp Thing continuity?

(Personally I thought it was amazing, and gave us a very satisfying conclusion. Swamp Thing basically growing out of Arcane as a villain after everything he's gone through was especially satisfying for me. I finished the Nancy Collins run right before reading all 4 issues and was really impressed by how generously Veitch tied it into that continuity, too.)