Swamp Thing Vol. 4: A Murder of Crows
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Read in August, 2007
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Ok, let me try to recount this: A psychoactive yam falls off of swamp thing and is picked up by a hippie who discovers it gives you good trips if you are good and bad trips if you are bad. Then swamp thing fights ghosts in a haunted house. Then swamp thing and John Constantine handle the crisis (an event in DC comics in the 1980s) and fight some Chilean male witches who wear waist coats made of Christians skins. Then they prevent some Cthulu-like evil satan darkness from destroying heaven.
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This is my favorite comic series of all time. Alan Moore took one of the goofiest characters in all of comics and made one of the most beautiful stories ever written in the medium. I'm copying and pasting this into into the review for all of the volumes by Alan Moore, as each book is fantastic.
Swamp Thing brings together elements of romance, horror, mysticism, and science fiction into a truly compelling and unique tale of a creature that can control organic matter. Sometimes sweet and somet...more
Swamp Thing brings together elements of romance, horror, mysticism, and science fiction into a truly compelling and unique tale of a creature that can control organic matter. Sometimes sweet and somet...more
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Read in April, 2006
Alan Moore's tenure on the Swamp Thing title is considered to be truly groundbreaking. There's massive opportunity for over-the-top farce in Swamp Thing, but Moore takes the character seriously and spins complex tales of love, humanity, evil, and ambiguity. The series is also the birthplace of Hellblazer's John Constantine, and the contrast between Constantine's smart-mouthed, "victory by any means necessary" attitude and Swamp Thing's slow-talking, moral, and fiercely loyal personalit...more
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Here is where Moore lost me. He has to deal with DC's Crisis on Infinite Earths housecleaning (go wikipedia it if you're that curious). It's all well and good for the fictional continuity, I suppose, but it doesn't make for a particularly compelling storyline.
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Read in September, 2008
That's the swamp thing I know. He meets the council of trees. Recruits a demon army to fight a doomsday cult of south american warlocks. More Constantine. Still not primordial, but top notch.
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The rebirth of the universe at the end is a bit of a rehash, but the build up humane, horrifying, and beautiful.
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The Swamp Thing story is Alan Moore's creative height, especially in terms of emotion in comics.
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Read in November, 2007
Starting to lose me. The Winchester house story was kind of nice, though.
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Read in October, 2006
Alan Moore is usually cool...
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