when i was 6 or 7 my dad had this box of a bunch of old comics from when he was a kid, and i went through like a three month phase where i was completely buried in those comics. i think there was mostly Swamp Thing comics, and i fell in love. well it's really been years since i truly read a comic book, and enjoyed, and i've suddenly rediscovered my love for swamp thing. like i said before, i've never really been thrilled or even vaguely interested by the X-men comics, or batman, or superman, but something about swamp thing is so bad ass that i can't resist it. i love the narration especially. for example, there's this one part where swamp thing's girlfriend is in court for "consorting with a non-human organism" aka swamp thing, so he gets pissed and travels through the green to this rose she's holding, and the narration is like "he whispers her name... and he whispers "i'm coming'". so awesome. my dad says Alan Moore is like the best comic book story writer in history... i don't know enough about any of that to really have an opinion, but this swamp thing book has a pretty awesome story so... i think my favorite thing about swamp thing, is that he's about as far away from tights, undies, and a cap as you can get.
btw that cover up there is the one i'm reading right now.
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