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Absolute Swamp Thing, Back For October 2019

Published Sat, 23 Feb 2019 12:00:22 -0600

Last updated Tue, 26 Feb 2019 22:07:32 -0600

Bleeding Cool reported that original orders for the Absolute Swamp Thing edition had been cancelled – and so it came to pass. But in the new DC Previews, it has been solicited again, for release in October this year.

Reprinting the earliest Alan Moore, Steve Bissette, Rick Veitch and John Totleben Swamp Thing stories together, recoloured and oversized in the format pioneered by Scott Dunbier, Steve Bissette has talked more about what the volume will contain on Facebook,

What I've been told by the editor is they've labored to correct all errors in all previous reprints; they've even recovered original color sep overlays for some pages.

The 15,000+ word text piece I wrote—and ran it past John and Michelle Colonnese Totleben and Rick Veitch at every stage, for corrections/revisions/fact-and-memory-checks, to ensure accuracy, and cleared permissions from interviewer Dana Marie Andra… to quote Dana's 1984 interviews with Alan, John, and myself—has been accepted; barring DC legal scrutiny, it will be published complete in this volume.

John Totleben and I have provided scans of never-before-published artwork (our audition pieces, sketches, etc.) as well.

Here's the current listing:

The classic Swamp Thing stories from criticall acclaimed author Alan Moore (Watchmen) are now collected for the first time ever in a slipcased hardcover edition with brand new coloring in Absolute Swamp Thing By Alan Moore Vol. 1.

Before the ground-breaking graphic novel Watchmen, Alan Moore made his debut in the U.S. comic book industry with the revitalization of the horror comic book The Swamp Thing. His deconstruction of the classic monster stretched the creative boundaries of the medium and became one of the most spectacular series in comic book history. With modern-day issues explored against a backdrop of horror, Swamp Thing's stories became commentaries on environmental, political and social issues, unflinching in their relevance.

Includes the story "The Anatomy Lesson", a haunting origin story that reshapes Swamp Thing mythology with terrifying revelations that begin a journey of discovery and adventure that will take him across the stars and beyond.

Author Alan Moore and illustrators Stephen Bissette, John Totleben, Rick Veitch, Shawn McManus, Ron Randall and Dan Day joint together to rise from the swamps in slipcased hardcover edition, Absolute Swamp Thing By Alan Moore Vol. 1. Collects Saga Of The Swamp Thing #20-34 and Swamp Thing Annual #2 with brand new coloring.

It looks like a rather glorious way to see where it all began. After this series blew up, American comics would never be the same again.