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More a push into body horror. But I LOVE the idea Abby gives Swamp Thing of growing a "better" brain to solve with the "Sprout" who was "conceived" to be the replacement Swamp Thing. In addition, his meditation on superheroes is very interesting. And his solution will seed a lot of potential stories later with the Children's Crusade and BKV's Swamp Thing.
Having gotten his stride after the first volume's a bit more erratic lurches, this volume shows that Veitch may lack Moore's sure poetry that is laid out like prose, but he's definitely brought some ace plotting chops to bear on the storyline. You can see the faint hints of where things are going a long way away and how he moves through the paces is nicely balanced and measured. Still a bit more tongue-in-cheek than Moore ever let the title get, Veitch's Swamp Thing is still a comic book and he
Veitch's penchant for experimentation is thankfully tempered so far in his follow-up to Alan Moore's outstanding run on Swamp Thing. I actually enjoyed this volume more than the last, largely because Veitch allows the stunning art and coloring (big shoutouts to Tatjana Wood) to show-not-tell some killer plot moments. Our buddy Mr. Thing is struggling to find what to do with the sprout as he comes to the realization that destroying the Parliament of Trees has succeeded in simultaneously stripping...
Decidedly weaker than the Alan Moore run...
I probably should not have started in volume 8. I was lost a lot during this story. I would call this the most "grotesque" graphic novel I have finished in my life. It was earthy and bizarre and gritty and awkward all at the same time, yet I was hooked anyway. I may or may not read further titles.
Not exactly Alan Moore, but almost up to his standard. Very trippy, with some fantastic art and moral reckonings.
Who could follow Alan Moore on such a trend-setting series? Rick Veitch, so much fun.
It's hard to tell a comicbook about a superhero without punching. But that's what the Swamp Thing expects to be. Here, there's a lot of trippy religious talk. I don't think it ultimately comes together, although it's a good experiment. It looks like DC stopped collecting this book after the Veitch run -- just like it stopped collecting Shade the Changing Man and Doom Patrol. Collect everything, spare nothing.
I'm enjoying this a lot more than I remembered and have come to the conclusion that the Rick Veitch is very underrated, though I've yet to reread the confusing time-travel arc. Veitch manages to strike a good balance between plot (adventure, character development, lots of elementals introduced, subplots galore) and prose (including deep ecology philosophising). He also does all the art (!!), which is less gritty and horrific than the Bissette/Totleben stories, but still really detailed and with
After a year's worth of issues—this is the second trade of Veitch's run—the overarching storyline shows no signs of maturation; while the ideas here are engaging and thoughtful, the pace is glacial.
Loosing patience with Abby and Alec. If Constantine wasn't in this (and it wasn't directly interwining with Hellblazer) I would have quit reading it. Chester is also awesome.
I have to admit that I have been a fan of Rick Veitch since I read an issue of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles where the Turtles help Casey Jones retrieve his stolen car from another dimension. Apart from the concept of the Turtles being weird in and of itself, this story was sufficiently bizarre enough for my burgeoningly weird fourteen year old self to become a fan (eventually as a parent, my children would have a Veitch drawn TMNT poster that once hung in my teenaged bedroom in theirs.) In the y...
This collection is a little Constantine heavy, but that's not necessarily bad. It's got a lot going on and some of the character endings/solutions are a little less than satisfactory.Still, that dragon/dino elemental was sick.
This is a review for the entire Rick Veitch run (and its tie-ins), not just this volume.Alan Moore is an impossible act to follow. I applaud anyone brave enough to try. Rick Veitch had an advantage, having already been working with Moore during the latter part of that run. Because of this, he definitely has a good feel for the tone and character of what Moore set up. It feels like a direct continuation not only of the story, but of the product as a whole. Now, this is mostly a good thing, but un...
7/10
