And Then I Read: SWAMP THING 23

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This issue was more miss than hit for me. While I like the way writer Charles Soule is handling Swamp Thing himself, and the new characters he’s introduced work fine, I dislike his Constantine rather strongly. Admittedly, in this issue Constantine has been taken over by a sort of demonic whiskey planted by the true villain, Seeder, but the intelligence and resourcefulness of the Constantine I remember is completely absent. Here he’s just a mindless monster. I’d like to think he could be used better. There are a few nice moments at the end of this issue, but in general I didn’t care for the art that much either. The townsfolk and Constantine seem mere caricatures of even what they were in the previous issue. Can’t recommend this one.