Swamp Thing is the best horror show you're not watching right now, probably because you have to subscribe to the DC Universe streaming service – and because you know it's "dead show walking" now that it's been cancelled after only one episode (and strong reviews). I don't blame you for not bothering to subscribe. There […]
You know what? Let's take a break from all of the behind-the-scenes drama going on over the "how's" and "why's" behind cancelling Swamp Thing – a show that received audience and critical praise (and a 92% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes) before its second episode even aired – to appreciate what we still have (for […]
With DC Universe's live-action Swamp Thing crawling its way onto our screens this Friday, the streaming service is done with the teasers and preview images and is getting right to the heart of the horror with the official trailer for the 10-episode series. Alec Holland (Andy Bean) and Abby Arcane's (Crystal Reed) investigation into what appears to […]
With DC Universe's live-action Swamp Thing less than two weeks away from its May 31st debut, the streaming service released tweeted a sneak preview of new poster artwork that highlights Alec Holland/Swamp Thing (Andy Bean, Derek Mears) and Abby Arcane (Crystal Reed). At a DC Universe fan event on Friday night, those in attendance had the opportunity […]
With DC Universe's live-action Swamp Thing less than a month away from its May 31st debut, the streaming service is offering us a new teaser focusing on Andy Bean/Derek Mears's Alec Holland/Swamp Thing and Crystal Reed's Dr. Abby Arcane. In the clip below, Abby is learning that the "man of her dreams" may just be the "monster" […]
With DC Universe's live-action Swamp Thing less than a month away from its May 31st debut, series star Henderson Wade took to social media on Friday to do two important things: one that was intended, and one that might have been by accident. The former was through a post on his Instagram account that let […]
After a week of news, rumors, and specualtion (see below), DC Universe's live-action Swamp Thing is set to stalk the streaming service's swamps starting Friday, May 31st – but that doesn't mean you have to wait until then to start caring about "The Green." But why listen to DC Universe when you can take some "friendly […]
Now that Swamp Thing has its horticulture hero in place, DC Universe is bringing on "The Big Bad" with Kevin Durand (Lost, The Strain) joining the series as Dr. Jason Woodrue aka the villainous Floronic Man. Durand stars opposite Derek Mears, Andy Bean, Crystal Reed, Jennifer Beals, Maria Sten, Jeryl Prescott, Virginia Madsen, and Will Patton on the streaming service's upcoming drama series adaptation based […]
Looks like DC Universe's Swamp Thing has a "thing" for Derek Mears, with the 2009 Friday the 13th actor set to portray the title character. Andy Bean (It: Chapter 2) is also on board, set as the creature's human "alter ego" (???) Alec Holland. Mears and Bean star opposite Crystal Reed, Jennifer Beals, Maria Sten, Jeryl Prescott, Virginia Madsen, […]
Actress Virginia Madsen (Sideways, The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair) is set to star opposite Crystal Reed, Jennifer Beals, Maria Sten, and Jeryl Prescott as a series regular in DC Universe's Swamp Thing, the streaming service's upcoming drama series adaptation built around the DC Comics character created by Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson. Written by showrunner Mark Verheiden and Gary Dauberman, and directed by Len Wiseman (The […]
The Walking Dead's Jeryl Prescott is expanding her genre universe into the swamps of Louisiana as blind fortune teller Madame Xanadu in DC Universe's Swamp Thing, the streaming service's upcoming drama series adaptation built around the DC Comics character created by Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson. Prescott's mystic with a mysterious past and supernatural perceptions that reveal the future joins Jennifer Beals, Crystal Reed, and Maria […]
Jennifer Beals (Taken, After) is being tasked with bringing a little law and order to DCTV, cast in a key recurring role alongside Crystal Reed and Maria Sten in DC Universe's Swamp Thing, the streaming service's upcoming drama series adaptation built around the DC Comics character created by Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson. Written by Mark Verheiden and Gary Dauberman, and directed by Len Wiseman (The Gifted, Lucifer), […]
Now that Gotham's Crystal Reed and Channel Zero's Maria Sten are set to join DC Universe's Swamp Thing, series screenwriter Gary Dauberman (It: Chapter One) is giving us some insight into what fans can expect from the upcoming series. Written by Dauberman and Mark Verheiden, directed by Len Wiseman (The Gifted, Lucifer), and based on the DC Comics characters created by Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson, the […]
Gotham's Crystal Reed is returning to DC's small screen universe – but not to Batman's old stomping grounds – as the female lead in DC Universe's Swamp Thing, the streaming service's upcoming drama series adaptation built around the DC Comics character created by Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson. Written by Mark Verheiden and Gary Dauberman, and directed […]
The panel was moderated by Chris Ryall, with a rotating group of panelists, Josh Olson, William Stout, Erik Nelson, Steve Barnes, Nat Segaloff, Jud Myers, J.K. Woodward, Scott Tipton. Christine Valada, and Jason Davis. Susan Ellison, Harlan's widow, was in the audience, seated in the front row. Bill Sienkiewicz was supposed to be on the […]
I've been lucky enough to have seen Len Wein on many panels over the years, the last one will always be the one I remember most. It was last year, at SDCC 2017, and it was the tribute panel for Bernie Wrightson. Len was clearly not doing well, and he had a hard time even […]
In February, DC Comics will pay tribute to comic book editor and writer Len Wein, co-creator of Swamp Thing and Wolverine, in a massive hardcover called The DC Universe by Len Wein, reprinting his classic work for the publisher — as well as his final work for the Swamp Thing Winter Special. Renowned writer Len Wein, the […]
Fantastic Four #52 and #53 were hotly political comic books putting out a daring message in a tumultuous time in American history. To put it in perspective, these two issues were published two years after the Civil Rights Act, one year after the Selma-Montgomery March, the Watts Riots, and the murder of Malcolm X, and […]
The Swamp Thing is travelling across a frozen wasteland with a small child in tow. They are running from an unknown snow monster that is creating the blizzard. Swamp Thing knows that he must kill the monster, or he and the Green will die. The follow-up story is an uncaptioned Swamp Thing story by Len […]
For the upcoming expanded re-release of the Patrick Meaney-directed documentary, Chris Claremont's X-Men, I was given the opportunity to interview both Meaney and Chris Claremont himself to talk about the documentary, the X-Men, and the kind of comics the world needs. BC: I'll start with Mr. Claremont. This is one you probably get a lot, but I have to […]
