Alan Moore’s environmental monster
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From www.salon.com:
By Andrew O’Hehir
The genius behind “Watchmen” redefined both the audience and the narrative possibilities of comic books with his newly reissued “Saga of the Swamp Thing.”
I have no idea what the first 19 issues of the revived “Swamp Thing” (written by Martin Pasko and drawn by Tom Yeates) were like, and comics fandom being what it is, I’m sure they have admirers. But when Pasko left abruptly with several plot strands hanging in midair, DC editor (and “Swamp Thing” creator) Len Wein asked a young English comics writer to come over from London and give Alec Holland’s universe a whirl. That guy’s name was Alan Moore, and his best-known work at that point was the apocalyptic political thriller “V for Vendetta,” a work inspired by Orwell and Pynchon that seemed a world away from American superhero comics. But Moore told Wein he’d do it, as long as he got a free hand to reshape “Swamp Thing” and its protagonist as he wished.
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http://www.salon.com/books/review/2009/03/04/swamp_thing/