Status Updates From Saga of the Swamp Thing: Bo...

Swampy is home.

Speeding to the finish. Or is it stumbling?

Ok so I’m now at the point where I finished reading this in my youth. And I totally see why I stopped them. I have no friggin’ clue what I just read *now*.

Almost at the end of Moore’s run.

I didn’t get much past this on my youth. I’ve got a far better grip on these events now.

I was spoiled by Moore’s collaboration with Stephen Bissette and John Totleben. After issue #50 other artists began to fill their spot & the quality waned. Still Grade A, but the first half of this run remains the best I’ve read. Issue #60 Totleben steps back in & reminds that precedent. A biomechanical Giger-esque living structure neither planet or ship, Love Death + Robots vibes, allusion to Odyssey, abstract

Moore flings our hero from the Swamp to the stars, continuing his departure from Horror bayou origins to other ‘Greens’. I love how smoothly this comic kneads ingredients of environmentalism -Gaia theory- into its increasingly sci fi tinged batter as Swampy makes contact with other planetary intelligences. Moore is a true wizard, two issues in I’m spellbound.

Nine years ago I started reading Alan Moore’s run at my brother’s recommendation. From 2017 to now I’ve been reading this saga, refreshing once a year everything that lead to this point. The impetus that sent me truly down the rabbit hole was one John Constantine, the now-archetypal occult investigator whose DNA is riddled through urban fantasy. Moore ends his first American comic writing role here