This Rotworld arc could have been amazing, both here and in Animal Man. Jarringly inconsistent illustrations and muddled plotlines make me wish for what this could have been.

Since this book was a crossover with both Swamp Thing and Animal Man I thought I would save time and just write a review for the story as a whole.To put it simply, I loved this story arc. It was dark, emotional, well scripted and full of action. Snyder's run of Swamp thing has made this title one of my favourites of the N52. And this team up with Jeff Lemire made the conclusion end with one hell of a bang. In both the Red and Green books in the Rotworld title share issues, but we also get to see...

Read this together with Vol.3 from Animal man, but this one definitely deserves more credit..For one: the artwork was more to my liking.. (except for Andrew Balenger's art, sorry dude :( )Secondly, the characters are better, more evolved.Okay nothing more to say but: Thumbs up! Solid story, with lots of action.. Fans of Swamp thing will definitely find their kicks in this one, believe me ;)

I feel very let down by this event. I already wasn’t a fan of the apocalyptic setting this book takes place in, but when compared to Animal Man’s part of Rotworld? Animal Man is better. It has a far more interesting cast of survivors with more varied connections to the Red and Green. I admit reading all of the Rotworld books back to back wasn’t the best idea, Snyder’s constant monologues don’t make it any easier. Snyder has a great voice for Alec and Abby, but he gets so verbose this volume that...

Snyder's run on the title finally finds its footing in this final arc, after the shaky build-up. I'm still not a fan of the overreliance on the larger DC universe, in how it clashes with the strengths of a good Swamp Thing story, and it immediately undercuts the direness of the apocalyptic horror, since it's a foregone conclusion that all of the grimmest consequences are going to be reversed by the end. The tie-in with Animal Man still felt awkwardly shoehorned. Once I let myself just go with it...

An epic possible future with a lot of heartbreak. The ending is inevitable but bittersweet.

Reprints Animal Man (2) #12 and #17 and Swamp Thing (5) #12-18 (October 2012-May 2013). The end is here! Swamp Thing and Animal Man have teamed to end the threat of the Rot once and for all. When they enter the Rot, they find they’ve walked directly into a trap and the trap has consequences. Separated, Swamp Thing discovers himself in a world where the only sign of the Green is the Parliament of Trees after a year-long battle with the Rot…and his beloved Abby is also dead. Now, in a last stitch

I much preferred this side of the story to animal man's version though they both have sad endings. I still think the whole "let's travel back in time" thing is a bit of a cop-out. Hieever, because there's no fairytale, everyone loves happily after ending, I can forgive it that one slight fault. Interested to see what the next arc will be.

Great ending to this epic storyline....too bad other DC books besides Swamp Thing and Animal Man were not apart of this. suspenseful supernatural action made for a page turner. Snyder and Lemire still have it...and great artwork by Paquette.

Well that was kinda a ret-con nightmare. I mean, don't get me wrong, we get to see Greenie taken away through some time warp to wake a year later after Arcane as the Avatar of Rot takes over the world.Right. The whole world. Just a few pockets of live people and not much green left. Even Superman and Batman are walking and mindless rotters.Is this the New 52's hopped-on-acid 6 comic WAY oversimplified version of Blackest night, excising all the other superheroes and just making it a struggle bet...

WOW what an ending!Its pretty much Anton arcane has taken the world and turned it into a rotworld and the duo are a year late when they go into some rot and we pick up with this nightmare world and everything and its strange seeing it but our heroes band together to fight off the rot, fight the fallen heroes and Alec takes some help from Barbara and Bruce left behind a device which s pretty much a plot-solver and I love the way it happens, Alec and Animal-man team up to fight Anton at the height...

Volume Three of the Swamp Thing was an improvement over Vol 2.Swamp Thing continues his fight against the Rot. He and Animal Man enter Rotworld but it is a trap and they set the Rot loose on Earth. What follows is a dark and twisted tale. I enjoyed the rather dark and grim nature of the story. It's negative outlook was a refreshing change from the fairy dust wishes of other authors.The artwork is also well done. It works well for this story. There are many strange creatures and lands are well de...

2.5 starsI couldn't get volume 2.And maybe since I had to skip ahead to this one, it had an effect on how much I enjoyed it.But I really don't think so.I have a feeling you will either LOVE this, or NOT.By the end I had definitely veered toward the Not-So-Much-With-The-Love side.A lot of folks found this to be dark and exciting.I thought it smelled depressing and hopeless.And the ending just killed it for me. I was holding out hope that I'd want to revisit Swamp Thing at some point in the future...

This book was a very intense close to an arc in this series. Man, the imagery is really disturbing. This storyline really gets under my skin in the aspect of decay being a force of evil. One of the good things is I got to see Animal Man with a different artist. I really didn't like the art in the New 52 Animal Man volume I read. The storyline is inherently disturbing, so creepy, squiggly artwork made it worse for me. With this, that barrier wasn't there. There is a hanging thread with the Animal...

Who knew Swamp thing would have the happier ending in this Rot World crossover? NOT ME! Anyway this is Scott Snyder's final issue on his run and it feels very complete. From issue 1 it was building up and the payoff really works. It made me sad and happy at the same time because of the events you might cry, but the overall ending was really sweet. The Green Kingdom arc is super fun and although feels slightly rushed after meeting a certain Bat-friend it does end really well. Sadly it takes 3 iss...

The denouement to Scott Snyder's Swamp Thing was something I was truly looking forward to. "Rotworld: The Green Kingdom" did not disappoint. I was expecting a lot of action, clever plot developments, the usual sombre Swamp Thing touch and a loads of butt-kicking. I am glad to say Scott Snyder (with a little help from Jeff Lemire) did deliver, and nicely so. Yanick Paquette's art is breathtaking, as usual, but I thought Andrew Belanger's (Animal Man issue #17) was lousy and amateurish. However, i...

In Volume 3 of Scott Snyder’s excellent Swamp Thing series, “Rotworld: The Green Kingdom”: Swampy and Animal Man jump into the swamp vortex/portal to Hell to save the world, only to find a year has passed in the 20 minutes they are there and all Hell has broken loose, literally; a handful of supers and pockets of humans are all that survive in a global takeover by the Rot; Swampy goes to Gotham City to find that Batman has turned but left a doomsday weapon that could mean survival for what remai...

The art is good, but I quickly got tired of it.The story`s not so bad, but at the end of the day, it`s pretty much the same ol' cliché of "setting a story in the future, then having the main character travel back to the past at the beginning and setting things so that everything that you just read never really gets to happen" kinda thing.I had started reading thew New 52 Swamp Thing in monthly installements when they re-booted it, and I did sorta like it, I had stopped reading the monthlies at #...

Something’s rotten. Having Swamp Thing punch zombies isn’t really the best use of his character.

As much as people hate the hatchet job that the New 52 did to DC's continuity, I will probably always find Rotworld to be my least favorite part of the New 52. It really boils down to this: Snyder's Swamp Thing and Lemire's Animal Man were both various levels of good before Rotworld. Some parts were even great. But then here comes this stupid event that was both unnecessarily long and extremely uninteresting. Issue after issue of "The Rot is coming! The Rot is coming!" and by the time it finally...