![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Running from 'Saga of the Swamp Thing #37-50' and brushing up against the massive 'Crisis on Infinite Earths', this arc finds Swamp Thing being led from adventure to adventure by a mysterious new figure, one who seems to know more about his increasingly powerful plant body than he is saying. ![]() While Swamp Thing himself has grown into a cult icon in comics, he was also responsible for the introduction of another one John Constantine, con man magician. The blocky, but expressive artwork of Phil Hester and Kim DeMulder also harkened back to the gothic inspired artwork of Wrightson and Veitch, giving Swampy his first hit under the Vertigo banner. Though Morrison wasn’t on the title very long, his trippy plotting coupled with Millar’s pitch black humor made for a fun return to the “roots” of Swamp Thing. Collins took a more traditional approach to the title, ushering it from the DC imprint to the newly launched Vertigo Comics stamp, British imports Grant Morrison and Mark Millar brought psychedelic horror back to the title with Swamp Thing #140-144, collected under the title 'The Root of All Evil'.įinding himself separated from his plant body, which is going on a murderous rampage throughout the Bayou, Alec Holland must go on a drug induced “vision quest” to reunite his mind with his Elemental body - that is if the villainous “Parliament of Stones” doesn’t kill them both first. ![]()
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