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Swamp Thing (Black & White Edition) #3
Swamp Thing Book 3
- GenresGraphic Novels
128 pages, Paperback
Published October 1, 1987
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About the author
Alan Moore
1,576 books21.7k followersAlan Moore is an English writer most famous for his influential work in comics, including the acclaimed graphic novels Watchmen, V for Vendetta and From Hell. He has also written a novel, Voice of the Fire, and performs "workings" (one-off performance art/spoken word pieces) with The Moon and Serpent Grand Egyptian Theatre of Marvels, some of which have been released on CD.
As a comics writer, Moore is notable for being one of the first writers to apply literary and formalist sensibilities to the mainstream of the medium. As well as including challenging subject matter and adult themes, he brings a wide range of influences to his work, from the literary–authors such as William S. Burroughs, Thomas Pynchon, Robert Anton Wilson and Iain Sinclair; New Wave science fiction writers such as Michael Moorcock; horror writers such as Clive Barker; to the cinematic–filmmakers such as Nicolas Roeg. Influences within comics include Will Eisner, Harvey Kurtzman, Jack Kirby and Bryan Talbot.
As a comics writer, Moore is notable for being one of the first writers to apply literary and formalist sensibilities to the mainstream of the medium. As well as including challenging subject matter and adult themes, he brings a wide range of influences to his work, from the literary–authors such as William S. Burroughs, Thomas Pynchon, Robert Anton Wilson and Iain Sinclair; New Wave science fiction writers such as Michael Moorcock; horror writers such as Clive Barker; to the cinematic–filmmakers such as Nicolas Roeg. Influences within comics include Will Eisner, Harvey Kurtzman, Jack Kirby and Bryan Talbot.
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October 6, 2018
Arcane really is a total bastard. In pre-Moore Swamp Thing, Arcane was merely a total shit; a mad, completely unethical scientist who was happy to use his own brother as a sort of Frankenstein's monster experiment and wanted the Swamp Thing's body to use as his own. But there was some kind of reason for his nastiness.
Here, he's just a shit for the sake of it. Seriously, resurrecting his niece's near dead husband's body so that he can unleash a horde of sort of zombies serial killers and, essentially just seriously f*** up his niece before killing her is just plain horrible.
But it makes for an excellent horror comic and Bissette and Tottleben bring the crazies (with able support from Alfredo Alcala) with creepy-crawlies running between the panels.
The fourth chapter send Swamp Thing to hell in great style, meeting a few of DCs supernatural stars on the way, including seeing The Demon (as seen on Volume Two) in his native habitat.
Crazy horror and sick art - Moore and his artists firing on all cylinders. Amazing to think but there are better volumes to come.
Here, he's just a shit for the sake of it. Seriously, resurrecting his niece's near dead husband's body so that he can unleash a horde of sort of zombies serial killers and, essentially just seriously f*** up his niece before killing her is just plain horrible.
But it makes for an excellent horror comic and Bissette and Tottleben bring the crazies (with able support from Alfredo Alcala) with creepy-crawlies running between the panels.
The fourth chapter send Swamp Thing to hell in great style, meeting a few of DCs supernatural stars on the way, including seeing The Demon (as seen on Volume Two) in his native habitat.
Crazy horror and sick art - Moore and his artists firing on all cylinders. Amazing to think but there are better volumes to come.
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