While Wein and Wrightson conceived of the monster as Alec trapped within the swamp, Moore and Bissette’s revival of the series in 1982 imagined the swamp as merging with the traces of Alec’s human subjectivity and memory. While the television series may draw from any of the various versions of the Swamp Thing character put forth since its initial creation by Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson in a 1971 issue of House of Secrets, our essay looks specifically to Alan Moore and Stephen Bissette’s version, which saw a complete overhaul of the Swamp Thing canon and included a small but significant twist in the titular character’s origin story. In anticipation of the upcoming web television series Swamp Thing (set to premiere on on the DC Universe streaming service), we have been asked to offer a “teaser” of our chapter about the comic series published in the 2016 anthology collection, Plant Horror: Approaches to the Monstrous Vegetal in Fiction and Film, co-edited by Dawn Keetly and Angela Tenga.
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