![]() ![]() That figures in, because he doesn't talk and she doesn't recognize him, he's a monster. The Swamp Thing is actually Dr Alec Holland, who gets transformed in a lab explosion and ends up in the swamp, reborn as this organic creature. ![]() That basic story line is pretty interesting. No real character development or relationships outside of Swampy's origin story. Characters that don't usually seem quite real, B-movie stereotypes who talk like they are naive and stupid. And here it is, such as it is, in the garish pulp horror colors of the early seventies from Bernie Wrightson, with all the purple prose you would expect from the genre and period. I had read this some time ago as I was reading the first three volumes of Alan Moore's great Swamp Thing run, to see where it all started. a twisted caricature of humanity that can only be called. ![]() and in that frightening, mind-shattering second-knows what it has become! A muck-encrusted, shambling mockery of life. examining the clusters of root, the crumbling chunks of moss. then pauses, studying its gnarled, misshapen hands. and into the light once more! Something that pulls itself upright on unsteady legs, searching its cloudy mind for a fragment of memory. something that claws its way out of the grasping mire. ![]()
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