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Inside this sumptuous hardcover you will find the following: From 1989, the unfinished SWAMP THING: DÉJÀ VU #1 (Book one of an abandoned three-issue prestige format series) by Len Wein and BERNIE WRIGHTSON! All 46 pages of unpublished annotated prelims by Bernie Wrightson AND the unpainted pencils by Bernie Wrightson for pages 1, 2, 4, 5, 7-17, 21, 22, 24, 28 and 33! A 2015 premise for a 6-issue Swamp Thing mini-series by Len Wein (2 pages). A 2015 pitch for a 6-issue Swamp Thing series by Len Wein (7 pages). The script to Convergence: Swamp Thing (2015) #1 by Len Wein (6 pages). Foreword by Christine Valada (Widow of writer Len Wein). Introductions by Kelley Jones and Rebecca Taylor (Swamp Thing (2016) series editor). Essay by Doug Wheeler (Writer of Swamp Thing (1985) #88–109). Pin-ups by Kelley Jones (Batman & Swamp Thing, 4 x Swamp Thing, 2 x Solomon Grundy, Zatanna, Dr. Anton Arcane, The Spectre and Deadman & Swamp Thing)  Pencils by Kelley Jones with lettering placeme...

Ninkugel the Harvester purloins bars (a currency) from his stingy employer, Tonkfarr. Ninkugel trades his bars for a Schema Beetle sculpture. The sculpture comes to life and gives birth to a brood that devours all of Tonkfarr's crops. Ninkugel is thrown in jail, he escapes and leaves his village that has become abandoned. Ninkugel comes across a talking lizard, Wurl. Wurl gets killed by slavers: Rolden and "Huntsman". A Bog King appears. Rolden and "Huntsman" slaughter the beast, but Ninkugel drops his blade, blade first, on "Huntsman"'s foot. Refusing to be sold into servitude in Arn-Uthyr (An homage to Uther Pendragon?), Ninkugel murders Rolden and "Huntsman". Ninkugel runs into a talking dragon (a "demon"), he kills it. Ninkugel arrives at another village, he introduces himself as a "Demon Slayer" to Arloth. Arloth introduces Ninkugel to Smekland. Smekland introduces Ninkugel to the village council members (includin...

Yes, I slogged through Jeff Lemire's boggy story. A tale that ignored its target audience. Alan Moore's Swamp Thing, not Alec Holland as advertised, is brought back to our realm in a post-apocalyptic future to fight an evil, goofy looking Swamp avatar and masses of gruesome monsters. That's pretty much it. Why was such a simple story told in 3 expensive Black Label books? I have no clue. Actually, I do, it's called: Green aka Money. What I did NOT like: NO Anton Arcane!!! A forgettable, unimaginative villain. A vulnerable avatar of the green. That weird perverted paradise dimension where Swamp Thing "lives" with his forever young wife and child. His wife still with him and his daughter not a full grown woman insults long time Swamp Thing readers. I much prefer the more credible retired “My Blue Heaven” version of Swamp Thing living alone in a pocket universe. How does Maxine Baker/Animal Woman keep her large animals fed? The absence of a higher power, yet the ...