SAGA OF THE SWAMP THING HC BOOK 03

Collecting issues #35-42 of Alan Moore’s award-winning SWAMP THING, this volume brims with visceral horrors including underwater vampires, a werewolf with an unusual curse, and the debut of John Constantine!

Written by ALAN MOORE
Art by STEPHEN BISSETTE, JOHN TOTLEBEN, RICK VEITCH and others
Cover by STEPHEN BISSETTE and JOHN TOTLEBEN

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  1. Awesome. Vol. 2 contained one my favorite single issues of all time (the Annual) so I’m really excited to discover the rest of this run. (I wonder will this contain the Batman issue and the dendraphilia scene I always hear about?)

  2. I’d be much more excited for this if the paper quality was better; it’s the same cheap junk that was in the TPB. Really, if they were anything except just the rubbishy paperbacks with a hardback cover. 

    I also think it, along with a lot of 80’s comics, could really do with a great, or even decent, recolour (I realize that’s a large endeavour). Still, I’ll probably pick it up as I’ve only read up to the first two volumes and they had some fantastic high points (and a number of low ones too).

  3. Seriously, WTF is up with Vertigo and their cheap paper quality? Been picking this and Preacher in HC and the thin-ass newsprint paper makes me feel kinda ripped-off (even though I’ve enjoyed the damned thing.) Still picking this up though!

  4. What really upsets me about these trades is how they keep putting TERRIBLY GENERIC images of Swampy on the covers. Can’t they give us something more distinct? 

    I’m ambivalent about the paperstock. On the plus side, MOST of the glossy paper used these days tends to give me terrible GLARE problems. Seriously, unless I’m reading in sunlight or in a room that has like three different light sources, providing even distribution of reading light, I find myself having to stragetically tilt every page of every comic I read.

    On the other hand, rough paper feels cheap.

    You know when this never used to be a problem? The ’90s. The "glossy" paper back then wasn’t so glossy that it was hard to read. And all MY Vertigo trades from the ’90s (Sandman and Preacher) they came with reasonably glossy paper. Unlike today. Seriously, I keep wanting to buy a few recent Vertigo trades to check out certain series, but when I pick up the trades in the store and start flipping through them…the production quality just looks a bit too cheap.

  5. I’ve heard wonderful things about the underwater vampire issue! I hear it’s scary as hell! Can’t wait.

  6. I actually like the paper quality of these new trades; it’s not just like crappy printer paper or the glossy stuff in most of marvel’s trades. 

     Anyways, these alan moore issues are the beginning of the american gothic story arc, the one he is most known for; to PraxJarvin, the issues where he goes to Gotham, fights Batman, and the entire dendrophilia thing are collected in trade #5: Earth to Earth. The stories in this trade are wonderfully chilling, especially the vampire story, but more so the first two chapters, "The Nukeface Papers." They’re not chilling in that it’s a jump out and scare you chilling, but in a way that appeals to, as Alan Moore does really well, the actual horrors in the world at the time, and still present. In all, I’d recommend it, these issues are the ones that got me hooked on swamp thing.

  7. The covers to the trade paperback series are gorgeous.

    American Gothic is one of my storylines in the whole run.

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