A portion of the following essay was originally posted to this site, in modified form, as part of its Muck-Encrusted Mockery of a Roundtable, on April 15, 2010. Particular thanks go to Robert Stanley Martin for his valuable comments on that prior incarnation. *** “If I have any real talent at all in comic writing, [...]
The Swamp Thing roundtable has shambled along a bit longer than I expected, and we’re still not necessarily done. But while we’re waiting for a last post I thought I’d pull some passing thought-bubbles from the muck: Andrei Molotiu: if issue 20 is damage control, it’s excellent damage control, taking a narrative that had rolled [...]
In his post, Eric argued that Moore’s Swamp Thing is feminist, both because it presents Abby as a strong, heroic figure and because it critiques Swamp Thing’s own abusive use of patriarchal power. I agree with Eric that power and gender are both important themes in the Swamp Thing series. I’m less certain that Moore [...]
Swamp Thing is the uber-incarnation of “wallowing in familiar tropes.”
Unlike many readers here, I haven’t read much Moore. I started with Voodoo, which I hated utterly, tried something else, and never went back. I was looking forward to Swamp Thing, because so many people recommended it and thought I would enjoy it. And I’m sorry to say that I think, well, I think I [...]
As any reader of Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing can tell you, there’s little doubt that the emotional core of the series is Abigail Arcane Cable, initially Swampy’s friend, later his paramour, and still later, his common-law wife. Moore’s greatest coup in the series was in turning Abby into what is probably the greatest female character [...]
Once upon a time, there was a character called Swamp Thing. He was created by Len Wein and Berni[e] Wrightson in 1971, and then there were some other comics, and then The Anatomy Lesson happened and everyone started paying attention, or at least retroactively turned their attention to that point in time, since not a [...]
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