DC COMICS
WRITER: Scott Snyder
ARTIST: Yanick Paquette
COLORS: Nathan Fairbairn
LETTERS: John J. Hill
32pp, Color, $2.99
Swamp Thing is a horror comic book character from DC Comics. The character is a plant elemental and a sentient, walking mass of plant matter. Created by writer Len Wein and artist Berni Wrightson, Swamp Thing first appeared in House of Secrets #92 (cover dated July 1971).
The best known version is Alec Holland (Swamp Thing #1, October/November 1972), a scientist who becomes Swamp Thing due to a complex process involving his death, a “bio-restorative formula,” and a bomb. British comic book writer Alan Moore came to fame in the United States when he began writing Saga of the Swamp Thing with issue #20 (January 1984) and re-invented the character with issue #21. As part of DC Comics’ re-launch of its superhero comics line, “The New 52,” Swamp Thing is back.
Swamp Thing #1 (“Raise Dem Bones”) finds Dr. Alec Holland alive. He has stopped working as a botanist in favor of working in construction. Holland is no longer Swamp Thing, but has all the memories of being the legendary plant elemental. The plant world, both natural and paranormal, has not forgotten him, however. Something is wrong, and even Superman is calling on Dr. Holland, because something dark is coming.
Even with its exciting last act and the shocking splash page that ends it, Swamp Thing #1 is interesting, but is mostly setup. It seems as if this is going to be a good series, but let us not kid ourselves. Scott Snyder is not Alan Moore, and Yanick Paquette, as good an artist as he is, will not create the eerie graphic magic that artists Steve Bissette and John Totleben did with Moore. For those who grew up reading the Moore/Bissette/Totleben Swamp Thing, everything besides the Wein/Wrightson Swamp Thing is sadly inferior.
Still, this new Swamp Thing could be good.
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