This book is gorgeous!I know everyone and their mom has read this series by now so I'm going to talk about why you should buy the "Absolute" hardcover edition. Its simple, its a freakin cool book. Not only is it a oversized hardcover, the texture is a beautiful mossy green velvet with light green metallic foil pressed on for the script. The sleeve it slips into is really pretty and the spine alone gives me the chills with how cool it is. It literally has swamp thing looking back at you. The insi...

My first time reading this amazing Swamp Thing run by Alan Moore. The art is superb and worthy of the absolute treatment. I enjoy the new coloring of these issues as it makes the art pop even more. The absolute does have binding issues. It doesn't impact the reading of this and there is a reprint coming out next month (with the dc black label instead of vertigo) that will hopefully not have this issue.

This is as good as it gets for me, I did read this on the tail end of my Vertigo reading list which made me appreciate it even more. I knew before going in that this run spawned the publishing offspring Vertigo into being and man, what a start... its an incredible crafted story and even tho they label it horror I just feel that its so much more. While there are horror elements in it its a highly philosophical journey with so many unexpected cameos (which is another reason you should read some ot...

Finished this today since I was told not to come in to work due to over-scheduling (no complaints from me, I don’t wanna be in the pharmacy on the day before a holiday lol). The art was incredible and the stories were great. Sometimes Alan Moore is too “out there” even for me, but this was right up my alley. I kinda want to do my hair like Abigail once I grow it out some more. Would highly recommend this edition, it’s stunning and the contents are great!

I enjoyed the second half of this a lot more than the first. The artwork is also brilliant

Before there was WATCHMEN, V FOR VENDETTA and FROM HELL, a relatively new writer, Alan Moore, got carte blanche to reinvent an obscure monster comic called Swamp Thing. In the beginning of the 70s it was made popular with writers like David Michelinie, Gerry Conway and Len Wein who created the character. After that first run it was back to obscurity, until the end of the 70s when DC wanted to revive the character, but they had to wait because of the infamous DC Implosion (short version, almost 2...

I've got a soft spot in my heart for Swamp Thing. My brother and I rapaciously watched the movies and TV series as kids, and we collected all of the figures from the short-lived animated series. I read some reprints of a few of the seminal issues over the years, and I read the entirety of the New 52 run in real time, along with the various one-offs and miniseries since then, but I'd never gotten to experience complete arcs of the series when it was in the hands of Alan Moore, Stephen Bissette, a...

Well here it is, the famed Swamp Thing run by Alan Moore. A legendary achievement in comics. One that is still as relevant and as interesting today as it was decades ago when it started. These stories are essential reading if you are a fan of this medium. They started the British Invasion movement and legitimised British writers in the eyes of American readers. For all the acclaim this run has and all it’s celebrated glory, does it truly live up to its hype? Of course it does.When Alan Moore too...

The first issue is probably the worst one in the series. Because the series existed as a monthly comic and when Alan Moore started writing it he needed to wrap up the previous stories. That makes the first issue very jarring, just chatting about all these characters I know nothing about! But once he gets started on his own story it gets very good very quickly.I never noticed before how similar the first story arc about the villain Dr. Jason Woodrue is to the villain in Moore's Miracleman series....

When Alan Moore took over as writer for Saga of the Swamp Thing, he had already started to make a mark in the UK with ambitious projects like Marvelman and V for Vendetta, and Swamp Thing itself was enjoying its best art since Bernie Wrightson had left the title thanks to the team of Steve Bissette and John Totlebon. But absolutely nothing compares to what this team (along with Rick Veitch et. al) accomplished once put together. Moore's scripts are justly famous, but it's remarkable how little t...

As if 380 pages of rich, captivating and gloriously vivid panels and colouring weren’t enough, Alan Moore serves up wave after wave of sophisticated ideas and quite brilliant prose that breathe all kinds of life into an otherwise uninspiring DC character.This stunning edition collects THE SAGA OF THE SWAMP THING issues #20-34 including an annual and an epic afterword. Some of the issues in here are easily amongst the most memorable I’ve ever read. And I’ve read allooooot of comics. Moore leans h...

I'm not typically a graphic novel reader, but I've varied my reading materials as part of the 2020 pandemic. As such, I found this one at my local library. This was a beautifully bound hardback with stunning, colorful, and lush illustrations that captured my attention. Personally, that's about where my enjoyment ended.I was never a big fan of the Swamp Thing. Regardless, I was willing to give this a try. I remember finding the movie interesting as a kid and thought this would closely follow the

With a literary sense for drama, the young Alan Moore elevates the pulp monster to the existential other which is a mirror for humanity. This mirror is best looked at with this absolute edition - I for one have no problem with the re-colouring.

I wonder why I didn't read this sooner and I found myself waiting to get an edition that is worthy and finally, this is it. Swamp Thing, being written by Alan Moore is a great read in so many levels. He makes you care about the characters. He makes you understand what Earth is going through. He makes you understand that horror is very important in our lives and the impact of horror to this day, can be not just scary, its needed. Swamp Thing was the beginning for Alan Moore writing for DC Comics

There’s not much I can say that haven’t been said already about this book so all I’ll say is this... I’m so jealous that someone can come up with these INSANE panel layouts, it blows my mind how creative and beautiful it can be!

What can you say about this? One of the best run in comics collected in a beautiful edition.Some people doesn´t like the new colors... I loved them, it gives the story a new feeling.Alan Moore is a genious and all the team that worked with him in this beautiful story.

I bought and read all the original issues when they came out on the newsstands. Reading them again in this all-new remastered Absolute edition now some 35+ years later, I am astounded at how well-done this was. It was like reading a brand-new story and it is as close to perfect graphic novel as I've read.

Wow! I did not know what I was getting into and had no idea of what Swamp Thing was about prior to reading page 1. My expectation was to read a monster book with some action in it. I got it because it had awesome reviews, because I loved what Alan Moore did with Watchmen and V (should have expected more than monster book... I know) and it was a beautiful edition.What I got in place of just a monster book was quite an adventure. First of all, the book is beautiful and the recoloring is really a m...

I read these back in the 80s, it was the b&w Titan collections. I now read the re-coloured version and was surprised to find that the story and art has aged well, like a good wine.I rank this as some of Moore’s best work. It is scary and haunting and at the same time just beautiful.Bissett’s and Totleben’s art is just brilliant and lift the story to new highs.

It's been nearly a decade since I visited this story originally. Not much has changed, Alan Moore's story still inspires horror and fear, though I did find new things that I hadn't noticed the first time. Swamp Thing remains a must read for comic enthusiasts.