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dukeofmars 's review for:
Saga of the Swamp Thing
by Alan Moore
I'm really digging Swamp Thing. This first volume got me into it right away, for a few reasons which I will update later, but start off with the one:
The complexity of the character. He's not simply a tortured man transformed into something he hates. That kind of gothic story of poor me self loathing will anybody can anybody love me is fine, but what the green guy offers up as a character is so much more: there's an existential message of ok here I am who will I be that moves beyond the dualism of man and monster, swamp and thing (ha).
The richness of the plot. This is Alan Moore here after all, the guy when it comes to funny books that demand to be taken seriously. I've read his self contained epics Watchmen and V for Vendetta. Seeing his genius at work on a serial narrative is a different experience, and a welcome one. Here he has time to experiment, to weave in and out of different themes and motifs for each storyline, like a jazz musician playing some standards each week but mostly branching off with his own voice.
The complexity of the character. He's not simply a tortured man transformed into something he hates. That kind of gothic story of poor me self loathing will anybody can anybody love me is fine, but what the green guy offers up as a character is so much more: there's an existential message of ok here I am who will I be that moves beyond the dualism of man and monster, swamp and thing (ha).
The richness of the plot. This is Alan Moore here after all, the guy when it comes to funny books that demand to be taken seriously. I've read his self contained epics Watchmen and V for Vendetta. Seeing his genius at work on a serial narrative is a different experience, and a welcome one. Here he has time to experiment, to weave in and out of different themes and motifs for each storyline, like a jazz musician playing some standards each week but mostly branching off with his own voice.