by John Totleben, Stephen R. Bissette, Alan Moore, Dan Day
3.5 stars. 5 stars for chapters 1 and 2. The rest of this volume really fell flat in comparison. The first 2 chapters were so good, though, that I can't give this volume less than 4 stars.
I definitely enjoyed this one, and it was Alan Moore in good shape (certainly better shape than that mass of who knows what known as From Hell, which I tried to read and dropped). Anyhow, I was familiar with the character of Swamp Thing, but I had never really read it. So, this makes a pretty good e...
I am pretty sure this is the first I've read of Swamp Thing. I have a vague memory of Swamp Thing guest starring in an issue of a trade I read long ago, but that hardly counts. So I don't have a background in what Alan Moore is doing here that's different from what came before. What must have been a...
Still a visual marvel of a comic years and years later... Alan Moore is known as being one of the best comic writers ever, and the more and more I read of his, I see why.. I might end up being a very serious Swamp Thing fan by the time I'm done reading this run.
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I got this as a gift from my brother a few years ago, and held off reading it. I figured - it's not super heroey enough for me and who wants to read about an overgrown talking shrub?But I was wrong - this is good stuff. Dark, morbid and dense it's well worth your time. Horror infused, with really go...
"Yes...I...have read...the file." - Read this book to learn why that is one of the most chilling pieces of dialogue to ever appear in a graphic novel! I would give this edition five stars just for Alan Moore's brilliant reinvention of Swamp Thing (as well as The Floronic Man, a one-time B-lister Jus...
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