Swamp Fever
I was looking through my comic collection the other day when I came upon six trades collecting Alan Moore's run on Swamp Thing from the 1980's. I took all of them off the shelf, browsed through them, and again realized that what I held in my hands were undoubtedly the greatest comics of all time (This invariably happens every time I reread the run). Swampy has long been one of my favorite characters, and Moore my favorite writer, but I hadn't read these comics in years, and after all the stuff I've read since then I now find myself in a more informed state of mind to actually make this bold statement: Moore's run on the title should be heralded as the second coming in comics...not his WATCHMEN or Frank Miller's DARK KNIGHT RETURNS. Swamp Thing was where it all began; not just my personal opinion, mind you, but also that of several knowledgeable swamp-obsessed comic book mates I've corresponded with during the last few decades. Exactly how can I justify the ...