And Then I Read: SWAMP THING 18

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I skipped issue 17, having grown tired of the crossover, but came back for Scott Snyder’s final issue, and I’m glad I did. It focuses on Alec and Abby, always the center of this modern Swamp Thing story for me, and is full of heartfelt emotion as well as a fair amount of action, as Alec rescues Abby from Arcane, only to have her become something quite different, something that will separate them, perhaps forever. (Though this is comics, so you can’t quite believe anything is forever.)

The art by Yanick Paquette plays to his strengths again, as it did in the earliest issues, allowing him free reign to design artful and attractive pages while still letting the emotion to shine through. Really, if all the issues could have been like this one, I’d have enjoyed the entire run of this book more.

Highly recommended.