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Saga of the Swamp Thing Book Three |  | Author: Alan Moore
Creators: Stephen R. Bissette, Rick Veitch
Publisher: Vertigo
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 42943
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 10.4 x 7 x 0.7
ISBN: 140122766X
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9781401227661
ASIN: 140122766X
Publication Date: June 29, 2010
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Continuing the hardcover collections of Alan Moore's award-winning run on THE SAGA OF THE SWAMP THING, this third volume is brimming with visceral horrors including underwater vampires, a werewolf with an unusual curse, the hideous madman called Nukeface. Best of all, this volume features the comics debut of John Constantine, Hellblazer, who launches Swamp Thing on a voyage of self-discovery that will take him from the darkest corners of America to the roots of his own long-hidden heritage.
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If you bought the first two, I bet you are going to like this one too... August 24, 2010
Carla G. Dávalos Rdz (Mexico, DF Mexico)
This third volume of Alan Moore's Swamp Thing run not only has the first appearance of one of my favorite comic book characters (John Constantine)it really set up the bases of what would some years later become DC's Vertigo line. This volume contains issues 35-42 and has some pretty innovative tales with Swampy taking on some classic monsters like vampires and werewolves, from a totally unexpected perspective, and while there's some stories that betray their eighties origin (Nukeface) and the first two volumes are better overall, an above average Alan Moore Swamp Thing storyline is better than 95% what's being published today (even from the current Alan Moore) Furthermore, the introduction Constantine gives Swamp Thing a guide on a journey which will take him to confront his origins with the Parliament of Trees and the pinnacle of Moore's run with the brilliant confrontation with the Brujeria on the next volume.
From here on out Swamp Thing would still interact with mainstream DC characters (especially in the next two volumes) but Moore's sophisticated take on superheroes and mature storylines would lead him to smash the superhero stereotype wide open with Watchmen, and give birth (along with Neil Gaiman's Sandman) to Vertigo.
This volume maintains the same slick style dust jacket of the second book, instead of the wax paper presentation from the first book (and the same plain engraving on the board cover instead of the haunting image from book one) overall its has pretty much the same presentation. The paper is still not the high grade quality from the Absolute editions, but at least in Amazon you get a pretty good price, only a couple of buck higher than the standard soft cover versions, so it's a pretty sweet deal.
I can't wait to have all six volumes line up in my bookshelf!
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