Friday 18 May 2012

Alan Moore's run on Swamp Thing

Alan Moore's run on the Swamp Thing  title is the best streak of writing I have had the pleasure to read.  His entire run lasted from v2 20-64.  A grand total of 45 issues was Moore's debut in American comics, and it was amazing.  I started from issue 1 to get the back story from Pasko, which wasn't terrible writing, but then issue 20 came along and blew Pasko out of the swamp.  Moore's impossible use of words and descriptions, the sometimes philosophic storylines that happens inside the mind, and his ability to create depth in his characters sets him apart from other writers.  This was him at his best.  During his run he also wrote the Watchmen, which is another amazing piece of literature.

Just some of the cool things that happens between 20-64.  Moore introduces John Constantine to the world, whose appearance is modeled off of Sting.  Moore re-envisions the origin of the Swamp Thing into a plant elemental rather than a disfigured Alec Holland.  Swamp Thing fights and defeats Batman and all of Gotham City.  He has a vampire story that is imaginative and changed how I looked at vampires.  Such as a community of vampires that gets flooded so they live underwater, which makes total sense.  And whenever someone ventures into the water they attack like sharks.  Moore's writing concerns itself with such topics as loneliness, pride, ego, environmentalism, power, revenge, justice, nature, family, and so on.  This is, as polled, one of the greatest writer runs in comic history, and deservedly so.

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