A review by unladylike
Swamp Thing: Raise them bones. Volume 1 by Scott Snyder

4.0

Aside from some of the most confusing layouts I've come across in a comic book (I.e., even after years of reading creatively structured panel sequences, it was sometimes very ambiguous what order the panels were meant to be read, and the script doesn't always follow the same sequential logic as the visual 2-page layouts.), this was a great first trade paperback for The New 52's Swamp Thing. As with Animal Man, which immediately crosses over with this title, DC seems to be working with the likely correct assumption that people have read the most famous stories by Alan Moore and Grant Morrison but probably stopped following the titles after those successful story arcs. Both Swamp Thing and Animal Man directly recall and then modify or add to the origin stories created by Moore and Morrison respectively, so familiarity with those legendary canons would be helpful but not necessary.