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    Swamp Thing #0

    Swamp Thing » Swamp Thing #0 - To Monsters released by DC Comics on November 2012.

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    The mysteries of Alec Holland and Anton Arcane revealed!

    Throughout history, Arcane has slaughtered the champions of the Red and the Green, and only Alec has escaped death – but for how much longer?

    Here we find a small girl walking through a blizzard in Manitoba, Canada in 1897. She is searching for the "Green Man" to bring back the spring. She passes out just as that generations Swamp Thing appears. He carries her to his home where he nurtures her back to health. She tells him that the cold is killing everyone in town, and he consoles her by telling her to be patient, that soon he will bring about a great spring. She responds by telling him she doesn't want the cold to end.

    Suddenly the girl stretches and grows until out from the girls skin appears Arcane. They fight but soon Arcane kills that avatar. He states that that had not been his first avatar murdered. We flash forward to the Louisiana swamps and see Arcane once again disguised in skin. This time hidden in one of Alec Holland's friends. They are toasting to the success of the bio-restorative formula. Here Arcane thinks back to all the avatars of red and green that he has killed over the years. Later that night after the toast Arcane sneaks into Linda and Alec's home so that he can kill him, but find only Linda. He takes her body and goes after Alec who is not home; rather he is working late in the lab.

    As Arcane goes to visit Alec he talks to him (while in disguise) and calms him from his stress. Then as he leaves he opens a pipe to release flammable chemicals and drops a bunsen burner which causes the lab to ignite. Holland runs out of the burning lab and, alight, he falls into the swamp murk. Arcane burst out of his guise and taunts the trees of the swamp. In Brazil the Parliament of Trees hears Arcane's victory, but one former avatar has an idea to save Alec. Five years later we flash forward to a hand bursting out of the swamp.

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    Anton Arcane is really creepy! 0

    Sorry I haven't been keeping up with the reviews I've been pretty busy lately and also my local Comic shop has been having trouble lately with getting the issues but I'm back now.I've decided to start buying two new books Wonder Woman and Swamp-thing with the Zero Month so expect reviews for those issues in the future and for the rest of the series.The GoodThis issue is a story about Anton Arcane and what he has done over the years and how he has hunted down the avatars and the red and the green...

    4 out of 4 found this review helpful.

    Swamp Thing #0 0

    THE GOOD:  Kano is doing the art in this issue and it looks really good. Seeing his facial expressions and the details that he adds to the backgrounds and characters is stunning. The way that he conveys horror in the panels is also very, very good. The story is interesting filling in a lot of questions that I had about the character from issue #1. Seeing Anton come back and really track down the avatar of the green is interesting to see and I'm glad that we got to see more of the Swamp Thing fro...

    3 out of 3 found this review helpful.

    "You Have Lost! You've Lost!" 0

    The Good   Whew, Arcane's getting around a bit isn't he? It's interesting to see the parallels of the origins of Alec Holland / Swamp Thing featured here, as well as Buddy Baker in the Animal Man #0. I don't want to spoil the core idea running through both these books, but its cool to see how Arcane's actions has forced the Red and the Green in a difficult situation.  I also enjoyed seeing a character from the wonderful Animal Man Annual, I was hoping he'd return in some aspect and he did briefl...

    2 out of 2 found this review helpful.
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