Issue #2

Cover Impressions:

Ugh...my eyes are burning. Seriously this has to be one of the worst comic book covers of all time.

Swamp Thing #2 (June, 1982)
Title: Something to Live For
Credits:
Writer-Martin Pasko
Art-Tom Yeates
Editor-Len Wein
Colorist-Tatjana Wood
Letterer-John Costanza

Same crew as last issue.

Plot:

This issue continues from the last issue with Swamp Thing fighting the town mob protecting Casey. Meanwhile Doctor Kay and Mr.G plot to get Swamp Thing by kidnapping Casey, which Kay is able to do while Swampy is busy fighting the mob. Afterwards Swamp Thing is captured by Kay spraying a defoliant from a crop dusting airplane. Swamp Thing wakes up a prisoner of Mr G who identifies himself as Grasp (he says that is not his real name of course!) who wants the Biorestorative formula.  Grasp threatens to run Swampy through a saw blade if he does not give up the formula. Swamp Thing escapes the saw and knocks out Grasp then quickly leaves to rescue Casey, who in the meantime has managed to disable the German Dr. Kay. As the pair flees into a cave system, they are pursed by Grasp wielding a laser gun, who then falls to his presumable death. Swamp Thing and Casey hitch a ride on a train and head west.

Remarks:

Another solid issue (minus the cover). We find out that Kay and Grasp are the villains, they want to use the Biorestorative formula to enrich the Sunderland Corporation and will employ any means necessary to get it. More horror elements in this issue such as threatening to kill Casey (again), almost cutting Swamp Thing in half with a saw,  Grasp having robotic hands under his gloves, and Doctor Kay burning up in an inferno only to walk out at the end of the issue with his skin melting off. So Kay isn't dead does that mean Grasp survived the fall? After all he does have some robotic parts, maybe he is cyborg?

Grade: B-