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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 741.5941 EAN: 9780930289225 ISBN: 0930289226 Label: Vertigo Manufacturer: Vertigo Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 176 Publication Date: February 23, 1998 Publisher: Vertigo Release Date: February 23, 1998 Studio: Vertigo Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Amazing HorrorWith Swamp Thing, Alan Moore, one of the most talented authors in comic book history, rewrote the rules. I picked this up 20 years ago and am still amazed. Steve Bissette and John Totleben are probably my favorite art team in the history of comics. This is close to their start, so it's a little rough around the edges, but still way above and beyond the vast majority of most illustrators out there. Steve drew the amazing layouts, destroying storyboard conventions, and John tightened the loose sketches ... Read More Rating:  - Graphic SF ReaderAlan Moore took this as an opportunity to try something completely different with the Swamp Thing character, and pretty much succeeded. While I am not as much a fan of this as some people, it is still pretty good. The Swamp Thing series also introduces to someone perhaps a bit more interesting. John Constantine, Hellblazer. Rating: - Where the comics revolution REALLY beganMany would say that the comic industry was redefined by works such as Watchmen and The Dark Knight returns, but for me (and there are countless people who would agree with me on this one) it all started with the first issue of Swamp Thing included in this collection. "The Anatomy Lesson" heralded a new narrative structure and a literary voice that still rings in the ears of most comic book fantatics to this day: Alan Moore. After clearing up some unfinished storylines before starting his revamp of the ... Read More Rating: - the beginning of a horror masterwork"No death, no doom, no anguish can arouse the surpassing dispair which flows from a loss of identity. Merging with nothingness is peaceful oblivion; but to be aware of existence and yet to know that one is no longer a definite being distinguished from other beings - that one no longer has a self - that is the nameless summit of agony and dread." - H.P. Lovecraft The ability to communicate this concept, sudden and total loss of identity, is a high achivement. -That- is psychological horror, ... Read More Rating: - Sophisticated SuspenseThe above title was once the series tagline. Anyway, Vol.1 starts off with the autopsy of Swamp Thing by the Floronic Man showing that Swamp Thing was never human. He was only the memories of Holland combined into the living swamp. He soon returns to the swamp and sets up roots in the swamp and begins to grow some sort of vegetables. Abigail soon finds Swamp Thing and is confronted by the Floronic Man and tells her the above information. However, once Floronic Man gets in touch with his inner plant, he goes ... Read More |
