Swamp Thing by Rick Veitch Book Two: Synchronicity

by Rick Veitch, John Ridgway (Illustrator), Brett Ewins (Illustrator)

With John Constantine struggling to prevent multiple apocalyptic events from converging, SwampThing and Abby must maneuver the synchronicity maelstrom and secure the planet’s future withoutsacrificing the unborn elemental’s life.Experience the landmark crossover as it was meant to be read, with the interweaving narrativebetween Swamp Thing and Hellblazer restored. The sequel to the Moore saga continues in Book Two (of three)! Collects Swamp Thing (vol. 2) #74-79, Swamp Thing Annual #4, and John Constantine, Hellblazer #6-12

Genres: Comics, Horror, Graphic Novels

408 pages, Paperback

Published August 5, 2025

About the author

Richard "Rick" Veitch is an American comics artist and writer who has worked in mainstream, underground, and alternative comics.

Reviews

[Chris Lemmerman · Rating 3 out of 5]

The second of three volumes of Rick Veitch's Swamp Thing run collects the famous issues where Swamp Thing, Constantine, and Abby conceive a child together, as well as a load of other...random stuff around the edges.

Like the first volume, this one also includes a lot of Hellblazer issues, half of which aren't important to the Swamp Thing plot as far as I can see. The actual crossover issues are important, but there's a lot of resolution here for Hellblazer's first year of stories that doesn't impact Alec and Abby at all. They're great, but they're not necessary here at all - I may change my tune after the third volume is released, I suppose.

The actual Swamp Thing stuff is great. There are a couple of experimental issues, like the one where Alec heads inside Abby to see the baby, and the one where he grows his brain super-large so he can compute a problem, as well as the really solid Annual #4 which is a Gray/Rot precursor story, but it takes a lot of time to get to these since the first half of the book is almost all Hellblazer.

Still good, but not really what it's been billed as.

[Bryan · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have a very strong nostalgic attachment to this proto-Vertigo epic.

[Dominic Sedillo · Rating 4 out of 5]

The battle with Superman versus Swamp Thing could have been really great if they went all out, but it was kinda cut short. It was cool to see them confront each other though.

All the side stories with Constantine were interesting but didn’t really seem like they all worked in tandem with the Swamp Thing stories* (*Hellblazer issues are also featured in this collection of Swamp Thing).

It’s a worthy follow up to Alan Moore’s landmark run. I recommend.

[Jen · Rating 2 out of 5]

*2.5/5 stars.

[J.L. Flores · Rating 3 out of 5]

Me gustó, pero lo que más me gustó fue reencontrarme con los viejos episodios de Hellblazer, que ya tenía.