- Paperback: 189 pages
- Publisher: Vertigo (Aug 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1563899752
- ISBN-13: 978-1563899751
- Product Dimensions: 16.8 x 1.2 x 25.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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And so ends Alan Moore's run on Swamp Thing. I am a huge fan of the series but alas, these final issues of Moore's run tend to underwhelm. Two of the eight issues collected here aren't even penned by him and surprisingly they may not be the worst in the book.
Don't get me wrong, this is still lightyears ahead of most other comics, especially at the time it was published, it just seems to be missing some of the human element which was so evident in previous issues. Swamp Thing is in space and has been there for quite a while. Where the previous issues did well in this new celestial environment, some of the ones in this collection just lack anything of real human value. In one really bizarre chapter he is captured and raped by a godlike, semi-cybernetic super-organism for the purpose of pro-creation, all told from the perspective of the creature itself as it narrates the story to its offspring.
Another chapter has Swamp Thing discover a planet of sophisticated vegetable life, his arrival causing accidental cataclysm which prompts the intervention of one of the Green Lantern corps, although an interesting concept; it didn't seem very well executed, some of the veiled symbolism and metaphor really felt like a rare miss from the mind of Alan Moore.
The thing about this collection is that it's essential for anyone who has collected the series up until now. The very last chapter is great and gives us closure on Moore's entire story-arc. I even think there's a pseudo-Moore in the shape of a bearded and hairy native American who expresses his disdain for money before sailing gracefully on past the Swamps.
Don't get me wrong, this is still lightyears ahead of most other comics, especially at the time it was published, it just seems to be missing some of the human element which was so evident in previous issues. Swamp Thing is in space and has been there for quite a while. Where the previous issues did well in this new celestial environment, some of the ones in this collection just lack anything of real human value. In one really bizarre chapter he is captured and raped by a godlike, semi-cybernetic super-organism for the purpose of pro-creation, all told from the perspective of the creature itself as it narrates the story to its offspring.
Another chapter has Swamp Thing discover a planet of sophisticated vegetable life, his arrival causing accidental cataclysm which prompts the intervention of one of the Green Lantern corps, although an interesting concept; it didn't seem very well executed, some of the veiled symbolism and metaphor really felt like a rare miss from the mind of Alan Moore.
The thing about this collection is that it's essential for anyone who has collected the series up until now. The very last chapter is great and gives us closure on Moore's entire story-arc. I even think there's a pseudo-Moore in the shape of a bearded and hairy native American who expresses his disdain for money before sailing gracefully on past the Swamps.
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And so ends Alan Moore's run on Swamp Thing. I am a huge fan of the series but alas, these final issues of Moore's run tend to underwhelm. Two of the eight issues collected here aren't even penned by him and surprisingly they may not be the worst in the book.
Don't get me wrong, this is still lightyears ahead of most other comics, especially at the time it was published, it just seems to be missing some of the human element which was so prevalent in previous issues. Swamp Thing is in space and has been there for quite a while. Where the previous issues did well in this new celestial environment, some of the ones in this collection just lack anything of real human value. In one really bizarre chapter he is captured and raped by a godlike, semi-cybernetic super-organism for the purpose of pro-creation, all told from the perspective of the creature itself as it narrates the story to its offspring.
Another chapter has Swamp Thing discover a planet of sophisticated vegetable life, his arrival causing accidental cataclysm which prompts the intervention of one of the Green Lantern corps, although an interesting concept; it didn't seem very well executed, some of the veiled symbolism and metaphor really felt like a rare miss from the mind of Alan Moore.
The thing about this collection is that it's essential for anyone who has collected the series up until now. The very last chapter is great and gives us closure on Moore's entire story-arc. I even think there's a pseudo-Moore in the shape of a bearded, towering native American who expresses his disdain for money before sailing gracefully on past the Swamps.
Don't get me wrong, this is still lightyears ahead of most other comics, especially at the time it was published, it just seems to be missing some of the human element which was so prevalent in previous issues. Swamp Thing is in space and has been there for quite a while. Where the previous issues did well in this new celestial environment, some of the ones in this collection just lack anything of real human value. In one really bizarre chapter he is captured and raped by a godlike, semi-cybernetic super-organism for the purpose of pro-creation, all told from the perspective of the creature itself as it narrates the story to its offspring.
Another chapter has Swamp Thing discover a planet of sophisticated vegetable life, his arrival causing accidental cataclysm which prompts the intervention of one of the Green Lantern corps, although an interesting concept; it didn't seem very well executed, some of the veiled symbolism and metaphor really felt like a rare miss from the mind of Alan Moore.
The thing about this collection is that it's essential for anyone who has collected the series up until now. The very last chapter is great and gives us closure on Moore's entire story-arc. I even think there's a pseudo-Moore in the shape of a bearded, towering native American who expresses his disdain for money before sailing gracefully on past the Swamps.
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Sowing the Seeds
11 Oct 2003
Format:Paperback
Here is the final installment of Alan Moore's tremendous and groundbreaking run on the Swamp Thing series, collecting original issues #57-64. Moore brings to a precise ending his take on the character and his breathtaking development as an elemental spirit, but with plenty of room for future writers to continue the series. We also see the apotheosis of Moore's strong horror (and increasingly, sci-fi) writing, which both resurrected and revolutionized this comic genre. At the beginning of this particular collection, Swampy's spirit is still drifting in outer space, and Moore takes him on a series of adventures that illustrate his very "fertile" imagination. Swampy restores fertility to Adam Strange's nuclear-damaged planet, accidentally mates with a lonely bio-mechanical space station (in a great example of speculative sci-fi), and accidentally enslaves a sentient plant civilization but amends his misdeed with help from the local Green Lantern associate. Moore brings his run to a close by finally reuniting Swampy with his true love Abby, as he ponders his place as an elemental god on his home world. The artwork continues to astound as well, with Rick Veitch and Alfredo Alcala handling most of the duties during this period, while colorist Tatjana Wood continues her moody and praiseworthy work. This is the stupendous ending to one of the great series in comics history, and also one of the best graphic novel collections. [~doomsdayer520~]
16 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Reunion and Departure
1 Sep 2003
Format:Paperback
While the title of the final collection of Alan Moore's Swamp Thing work has an obvious meaning to it, the reunion between Alec Holland the Swamp Thing and his wife Abby, the book is also Moore's last work, so it is just as much his departure from a character he changed in so many ways, helping to create what would someday be DC Comic's Vertigo line.
The final collection features some more of Moore's reworking of the DCU with some horrifying results. Adam Strange, hero of Rann, appears, and Moore suggests that Strange may be Rann's hero, but not for the reasons he thinks he is. As Swamp Thing makes his journey home to Earth after his forced severing from the Green as seen in the previous collection, he makes a variety of stops, some of which show how his abilities and such make him one of the more powerful beings, and as such, Alec's reasoning in the end as to why he doesn't just fix the Earth's ecology for humanity makes a good deal of sense.
Of course, Moore never lets you forget Swamp Thing began as a horror book. Alec's revenge against his would-be killers for separating him from Abby for so long (which, as far as Alec is concerned, is the real crime they committed) takes on terrifying aspects as we see just how powerful someone who can control plants really is. His trip to a planet of sentient plants has similar frightening results as he inadvertantly pulls up a body made entirely of the citizens of the city and needs to be stopped by the planet's Green Lantern, but not before his presense causes internal shifts in a few of the planet's inhabitants, most for the worse, seeing what they really are as opposed to what they believe themselves to be.
Most horrifying (and somewhat confusing) is an issue recounted by some kind of alien creature which it seems is part plant, part asteroid, and part machine, and her capture and what appears to be a rape of Alec trying to get home while his consciousness travels across space.
I give this collection four stars for a simple reason, though. In the middle of the book is a single issue Moore didn't write dealing with Alec and the New Gods. Artist Rick Veitch wrote that one. It's not a bad issue, but if you buy this thinking Moore wrote every issue (which may be an impression you get from reading the cover), then you should be warned that this is not the case.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Best of the Run
24 Jan 2008
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Alan Moore's entire run on Swamp Thing is amazing. But his `Swamp Thing in Space' stories are my favorites as Moore switches from weird horror to weird sci-fi-horror. As remarkable and acclaimed as Watchmen is, for my money, this is where Moore penned his most ground-breaking stuff.
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