Swamp Rising
Hey all, I've enjoyed many fellow boardie's journals and I thought I would share my experience reading Swamp Thing (1982) for the first time. I plan to start at #1 and read up to at least #87. Basically the Pasko, Moore and Veitch runs. I've heard nothing but praise (obviously) for Moore's Swamp Thing, but I figured I would start with Pasko, because it is the beginning of the series. Oddly I have found very little reviews of the Pasko issues, so not sure how it will be. I could have started with House of Secrets #92 and the first Swamp Thing volume by Wein and Wrightson, however I own none of those issues at this time. Though I think there is a trade available, so perhaps a detour down the road a bit.
A bit of background on me as a comic collector. I started seriously collecting comics in1985 with Transformers #1, from there I started to collect GI Joe. It didn't take to long and I was collecting a lot of superhero comics mostly of the Marvel variety. I did dabble here and there with DC Comics, mostly Batman and Justice League. Of course by that time Moore was already working on his landmark run on Swamp Thing, but to my 12 year-old self, It was a bit and ignored it. Oddly I did read Watchmen as it was being released, I found it fascinating, literally the best series I had ever read and still is today. But I still never bothered reading his Swamp Thing. As the 90s started, I found myself getting more into DC comics with Death of Superman, Emerald Twilight, Terminal Velocity and Knightfall. I continued collecting comics (mostly DC) up until the end 1999. At that point I was out and was focused on other things.
I returned to comic collecting in 2014 after being lured back into the hobby by the various superhero movies and of course The Walking Dead. Today I've been reading new stuff and old classic runs that I missed all those years ago. Lately I've been reading Superman from 1999-up to the new 52 (including Flash, JSA, JLA, LoSH and few others). I've also been reading the Sliver Age LoSH archive editions, Savage Sword of Conan, Byrne's Superman, Ostrander's Suicide Squad, DC War comics, Stormwatch/Authority/Planetary, Hellblazer and a bunch of Marvel stuff though Marvel Unlimited.
As for why I want to start reading Swamp Thing, not really sure just a combination of things. I have just recently finished up Moore's Providence and had been deciding on reading another one of his other works that I missed like From Hell. But then a few weeks ago I read Batman #23 "The Brave and the Mold" by King.
That I got me to thinking hey maybe I should read Moore's Swamp Thing...which of course were John Constantine gets his start. So on to the reading of Swamp Thing! Hope you all enjoy a Swamp Thing newbie's thoughts on the series.
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