Absolute Swamp Thing by Alan Moore Vol. 1

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The Deadman Collection – Collects Strange Adventures #205–216 (1950–1973), The Brave and the Bold #79, 86 and 104 (1955–1983), and material from Aquaman #50–52 (1962–1978), and Challengers of the Unknown #74 (1958–1978). This was the second book in the line of oversized DC slipcased hardcovers after The Green Lantern/Green Arrow Collection, though again not as oversized as an Absolute edition. Release date: December 2001. ISBN 1-5638-9849-7 Moore's scripts are justly famous, but it's remarkable how little they've aged. In his first issue on the title, a tidying-up of Martin Pasko's run, Moore takes what was then an at-best C-list hero and encapsulates the existential irony of a superhero being nothing without a supervillain as Alec cradles his now-dead archenemy in his arms and genuinely mourns the mutated Arcane for what his absence means for his own purpose in life. And speaking of existential, Moore leaps from there into "The Anatomy Lesson," one of the most radical single issues in any comic book to that point. Throughout the issues collected here, Moore blends poetic minimalism, classic comics purple prose, even a few flashes of the literary modernism that would fully bloom later in his career. His concepts, whether his own or refined from pitches from his pencilers, turn Swamp Thing from the emotionally tortured ghost of a man lamenting his lost humanity into a cosmic force who can meld with the Earth and traverse the deepest recesses of Hell.

I've got a soft spot in my heart for Swamp Thing. My brother and I rapaciously watched the movies and TV series as kids, and we collected all of the figures from the short-lived animated series. I read some reprints of a few of the seminal issues over the years, and I read the entirety of the New 52 run in real time, along with the various one-offs and miniseries since then, but I'd never gotten to experience complete arcs of the series when it was in the hands of Alan Moore, Stephen Bissette, and John Totleben. Well my girlfriend got me this collection for my birthday last week, and it is a transcendent experience. He comenzado de esta forma porque lo primero que hice al enfrentarme por primera vez con Una lección de anatomía, fue, simple y llanamente, hablar con una tía que es profesora titular de biología en la universidad más conocida de mi país. Sí, el pequeño organismo que consume al hombre que pasó a ser la cosa del pantano, efectivamente existe. Y tiene todas las propiedades que Moore nos enseña, aunque sus capacidades difícilmente podrían asumir la conciencia de una persona. Claro que, por ese lado, lo único que nos toca hacer es, dejar que el escritor se tome su libertad creativa. An unnamed, alternate universe incarnation of Swamp Thing makes a non-speaking cameo appearance in Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths as a minor member of the Crime Syndicate.Over the years, the Swamp Thing series has been nominated for and won several awards. Len Wein won the 1972 Shazam Award for "Best Writer (Dramatic Division)" and Berni Wrightson won the Shazam Award for "Best Penciller (Dramatic Division)" that same year for their work on Swamp Thing. Wein and Wrightson also won the Shazam Award for "Best Individual Story (Dramatic)" in 1972 for "Dark Genesis" in Swamp Thing #1. The series won the Shazam Award for "Best Continuing Feature" in 1973. With issue #140 (March 1994), the title was handed over to Grant Morrison for a four-issue story arc, co-written by the then-unknown Mark Millar. As Collins had destroyed the status quo of the series, Morrison sought to shake the book up with a four-part storyline which had the Swamp Thing plunged into a nightmarish dreamworld scenario where he was split into two separate beings: Alec Holland and the Swamp Thing, which was now a mindless being of pure destruction. Millar then took over from Morrison with issue #144, and launched what was initially conceived as an ambitious 25-part storyline where the Swamp Thing would be forced to go upon a series of trials against rival elemental forces. Millar brought the series to a close with issue #171 in a finale where the Swamp Thing becomes the master of all elemental forces, including the planet.

Mesi fa, ammaliato da Watchman, decisi di cominciare a decorticare Moore dalla sua prima opera: Swamp Thing . Fra tutti gli incespichi di pubblicazione, e la moltitudine di versioni uscite negli anni, ho sempre atteso che qualcuno venisse a mettere in ordine la situazione perché, devo esser sincero, non capivo davvero COSA comprare. Panini esce con questi due volumi di raccolta e io le do un bacio di ringraziamento in cui lascio colare un rivoletto di bava. In parallelo sto portando avanti la saga di Sandman (di Gaiman) che ad oggi, arrivato agli ultimi due volumi, sentenzio come uno dei viaggi più emozionanti che abbia mai fatto. Moore would later reveal, in an attempt to connect the original one-off Swamp Thing story from House of Secrets #92 to the main Swamp Thing canon, that there had been dozens, perhaps hundreds, of Swamp Things since the dawn of humanity, and that all versions of the creature were designated defenders of the Parliament of Trees, an elemental community which rules a dimension known as "the Green" that connects all plant life on Earth. Moore's Swamp Thing broadened the scope of the series to include ecological and spiritual concerns while retaining its horror-fantasy roots. In issue #37, Moore formally introduced the character of John Constantine the Hellblazer as a magician/con artist who would lead the Swamp Thing on the "American Gothic" storyline. Alan Moore also introduced the concept of the DC characters Cain and Abel being the mystical reincarnations of the Biblical Cain and Abel caught in an endless cycle of murder and resurrection.Absolute Swamp Thing by Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson collects a story from The House of Secrets #92 and Swamp Thing #1-13. While Len Wein writes all the issues, Bernie handles the art on 1-10 and Nestor Redondo handles the rest. Once I forgave Nestor for not being Bernie, it was all good. McAvennie, Michael (2010). "1970s". In Dolan, Hannah (ed.). DC Comics Year By Year A Visual Chronicle. Dorling Kindersley. p.146. ISBN 978-0-7566-6742-9. 'Swamp Thing' was the name of Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson's turn-of-the-century tale, and its popularity with readers led a modernized version of the character into its own series a year later. Comics Code Rejects Saga of Swamp Thing Story; Swamp Thing Rejects Code", The Comics Journal #93 (September 1984), pp. 12/13.