Not your average green avenger
By Dave
March 26th, 2009 | Leave a comment
Before he created Watchmen and V for Vendetta, Alan Moore revived the minor comic book character Swamp Thing, making a hit graphic novel in the 1980s, which led to a couple of movies and a TV series.
Writes Laurel Maury for NPR: “Although he’s a red-eyed, gorilla-shaped mass of dripping lichen, our hero is inherently compassionate, logical and just. Swamp Thing is a horror comic, but it’s also a late-century incarnation of the idea of the noble savage, straight out of Dryden or Rousseau — only made of roots, twigs and swamp muck.”
The character underwent various incarnations, but never gave up his tree-hugging ways completely.
Maury continues: “Moore, a famous lefty, mixed his penchant for plumbing the psyche’s unholy depths with concepts from the nascent environmental movement, making his revamped Swamp Thing a sensation.”
An illustrated excerpt (CLICK HERE):
