Swamp Thing

[Colin YNWA]

Okay so a post over at The Beat got me thinking. In the comments section in an article about Scott Snyder leaving Swamp Thing after #18 someone suggested that it'd be great if Al Ewing was to take over (I assume that who  they mean, up and coming British writer called Al - has to be right?)

How bloody great would that be - I mean absolutely fantastic if he did. Well, anything that takes away the time he has writing for 2000ad being a bad thing aside, BUT if he was going to get a US title that'd be the one. Or is one big green monster enough in anybodies life?

http://comicsbeat.com/scott-snyder-leaving-swamp-thing-with-18/

As I know there's at least one big Swampie fan here I thought it'd be worth asking for opinion, or alternatives.

[SmallBlueThing]

A big bearded up and coming young british writer called Al on Swamp Thing? Nah, that'd never work. The comic has standards, you know.

Hmm. I'd not given the replacement to Snyder much thought, as im not sure i consider this current volume of Swampy as 'canon', in the same way that volumes one to three are and four may be, if you fudge it. I just assumed some currently 'hot' writer would come in and do six months, before buggering off and leaving the book to cancellation again- until next time. Mr Ewing might be fun- if it knocked the stupidity of the current stories on the head, i'd certainly support his investiture into the Parliament of Tree-Huggers, as Swampy writers arent called.

To be honest, i dont have a favourite for the job. Ive read the book for years off and on, and i survived Doug Wheeler, so feel i can survice anything. Good luck to whoever picks it up though, and if there's an online petition to get Al and Henry Flint on board, i'll happily sign.

SBT

[radiator]

NO!

Keep him on Dredd!

[Colin YNWA]

Now Al I can support as he could do that AND 2000ad stuff at the same time BUT Henry, wonderful though it'd be no cos surely that'd take him from us?

[Link Prime]

Now Al I can support as he could do that AND 2000ad stuff at the same time BUT Henry, wonderful though it'd be no cos surely that'd take him from us?

If you love someone, set them free...

I'd love to see Al Ewing and / or Henry Flint on Swamp Thing, and I honestly believe both are prolific enough that they'd still contribute to 2000AD even if they had the gig.

As for another suggestion...Brandon Graham? Think of the possibilities!

[Colin YNWA]

Now Al I can support as he could do that AND 2000ad stuff at the same time BUT Henry, wonderful though it'd be no cos surely that'd take him from us?

If you love someone, set them free...

NEVER!

We must jealousy guard them and crush all their hopes, dreams and aspirations that might take them from us.

[SmallBlueThing]

My dream team of wayne simmons and gene colan will never happen- wayne would be good cos he's never written comics to my knowledge, would come at it fresh and is a riable scare-meister. And his tattoos and slappy head would scare the kiddies and middleaged hippies who make up the swampy audience, which would be great.
Gene Colan is dead, sadly, and it's an eternal source of regret we never got a Colan swamp thing.

Henry Flint could do swampy and dredd, peasy.

SBT

[TordelBack]

We must jealousy guard them and crush all their hopes, dreams and aspirations that might take them from us.

That's in this board's Articles of Association, in the first few lines I believe, right after '1.0.1. This gaggle of nerds, geeks, dweebs, colonials and ex-squaddies, hereafter 'the Forum', accepts that it is on Thin Ice, but chooses to continue regardless'.

[SmallBlueThing]

Typically, after spending the day thinking about, and slagging off, this current run of Swamp Thing, I settle into the bath with #15 and find it's bloody fantastic. I have no idea if it makes any sense- I read these things four weeks apart and generally forget the intricate bits and bobs of plot and characterisation from issue to issue- but all I know is that was one hell of a single issue. Incredible creature art and gorgeous layouts and page design by fill-in artist Marco Rudy- right there, there's yer man for when Paquette leaves with Snyder in #18. Best of all, he draws him minus the wooden armour and horns.

Often, people pop up here and beg the board to buy a particular comic in an effort to widen their comic-reading beyond 2000AD. I don't usually do this- but here I will. Take a look at Marco Rudy's art if you're in a comic shop, it's bloody great!

SBT

[Professor Bear]

SBT, I am vaguely curious what you made of the Swamp Thing run where the main character was reinvented as a teenage girl.  Mainly because I remain unconvinced it is real.

Mind you, this was real: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H5zXh6MVvg

[Jim_Campbell]

That's in this board's Articles of Association, in the first few lines I believe, right after '1.0.1. This gaggle of nerds, geeks, dweebs, colonials and ex-squaddies, hereafter 'the Forum', accepts that it is on Thin Ice, but chooses to continue regardless'.

Forum needs a 'Like' button.

Cheers!

Jim

[SmallBlueThing]

SBT, I am vaguely curious what you made of the Swamp Thing run where the main character was reinvented as a teenage girl.  Mainly because I remain unconvinced it is real.

Mind you, this was real: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H5zXh6MVvg

Ah, good old Animated Swampy- absolute complete shit on every level. I watched the pilot the other day with the kids, and even they walked away- and they like the Pokemon cartoon.

As for the "the Swamp Thing run where the main character was reinvented as a teenage girl"- I guess you mean Brian K Vaughn's volume 3. Heh- well now, I actually quite like it a lot (I'm missing #11, so need to pick that up before I can start my proper reread) if only because it's remarkably nasty in parts, often bad-tempered, needlessly wanky in others, mostly averagely drawn, and short- running only 20 issues (the shortest Swampy so far... and yes, I'm watching DC's publicity regarding the leaving of Snyder and Paquette closely). It's okay- I can see why they did it, after 200 comics featuring a shambling moss monster, the switch to the human daughter of a shambling moss monster who has special powers seems like it could have worked. It didn't really, but rather than than what came next. Thankfully, a two parter by Richard Corben would eventually come along and set the big greeny back on the right track.

I love Swampy very much, but I'll not pretend it's always good. In fact, if I were very honest I'd probably say that there's more average or shitty Swamp Thing issues than there are good ones. It's just that the good ones are very good indeed- and not just the Alan Moore ones at all, oh no.

SBT

[O Lucky Stevie!]

Stevie'd be upping John Smith if it wasn't for the fact that we've been waiting over 5 years for Devlin Waugh: Ship Of Fools so...

Alec Worley, anyone?

[SmallBlueThing]

Heh! Oddly Stevie, i emailed DC Comics with that very suggestion. Thinking of the tone of AotW and how i think something along those lines would work for Swamp Ting- not a Moore-copying horror series, but a high adventure with a darker edge.
Anyway- two people with independently the same idea? In internet-speak that's a fact, isnt it? ALEC WORLEY IS THE NEW WRITER ON SWAMP THING!

SBT

[O Lucky Stevie!]

Absolutely & indubitably SBT! DC clearly cancelled Hellblazer – a title that had Worley & Pleece written all over – to free him up for Swampy.

Though, in all honesty, we'll undoubtedly get the China Melville proposal that they rejected a few years ago. Or Peter Milligan. If we're lucky.