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DC Comics/Boom Studios Crossover: Swamp Thing Is Killing The Children

NYCC: DC Comics/Boom Studios Crossover announced, Swamp Thing Is Killing The Children, by James Tynion IV and Werther Dell'Edera

James Tynion IV announced a new DC project, a new crossover project, and a new Something Is Killing The Children project from Boom Studios at New York Comic Con, as part of Boom Studios' twentieth anniversary panel, Swamp Thing Is Killing The Children. And it will be created by the SIKTC creative team of James Tynion IV and Werther Dell'Edera.

'For the first time ever, BOOM! Studios' award winning comic book series, co-created by James Tynion IV and Werther Dell'Edera, Something is Killing the Children, is crossing over with something dark from DC in the just announced one-shot special SWAMP THING IS KILLING THE CHILDREN. The Eisner-winning creative team and co-creators of Something is Killing the Children are teaming up to tell this exciting, bold new chapter combining the dark supernatural existentialism fans have come to expect from DC's Swamp Thing, and the kinetic, visceral monster killing heroism that has made Something is Killing the Children a household name.

"It's such an incredible thing to see Erica Slaughter next to Swamp Thing" said Josh Hayes, Vice President of Consumer Sales and Marketing at BOOM! Studios.  "Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson are synonymous with comics I grew up on, and absolute masters of their craft.  To have modern masters like James Tynion IV and Werther Dell'Edera telling a tale like this is something – I mean Swamp Thing that I can't wait to read!"

"I'll admit the sheer brilliance of the title alone was reason enough to get excited about this," said Chris Conroy, Executive Editor for the DC Black Label imprint, "but James and Werther have gone deep and created a story that's just as ambitious as any of the other classics in the Swamp Thing library. I think fans of both the SlaughterVerse and of the darker side of DC comics are going to be shocked and delighted when they see what we've been up to!"

Something Is Killing the Children was published in 2019 as a limited – and then ongoing , comic book series created by James Tynion IV and Werther Dell'Edera, monthly by Boom Studios and follows Erica Slaughter as she hunts monsters that are killing children, set in a small town, Archer's Peak, Wisconsin, beset by child deaths and disappearances. and with spinoffs and prequels expanding what is now known as the Slaughterverse. Something of which Swamp Thing will now be a part.

Swamp Thing was created by writer Len Wein and artist Bernie Wrightson in House of Secrets #92 in 1971 as a stand-alone horror story set in the early 20th century, before gaining his own series, as Alec Holland, a scientist-turned-swamp monster, living in a world drawn to other horror and supernatural threats. The character later had a highly acclaimed run under new-to-America writer Alan Moore, with Stephen Bissette, Rick Veitch and John Totleben, seen as changing the very nature of American comic books going forward, and eventually inspiring the now-returning Vertigo imprint from DC Comics. Swamp Thing would also go on to become one of the staples of the Justice League Dark, a team featuring magical superheroes.

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