In his 1986 classic Watchmen, Doctor Manhattan screws around with physics and encounters Swamp Thing's elemental relativism up close and personal, as he exiles himself to Mars to wonder whether or not the stupid human race, always at war with itself, is worth saving. But Moore made a career of bringing heroes to heel.
"Ever since we first encountered Woodrue, he's lost every battle he fought." "This is ridiculous," Flash complains to Superman and crew, as things get ugly between Floronic Man and Swamp Thing. 24 finale only concede that they are out of their element. 21 exhumes the minor Atom foe Jason Woodrue, known as Floronic Man, for a diabolical four-issue arc packed with gore, philosophy, allusion, surrealism and even the Justice League, which Moore brings into the issue No. Moore's now-legendary run on Swamp Thing breathed life into characters old and new. By the time it is over, Swamp Thing is killed so he can be reborn.Īnd it's not just him. On one page, an addled redneck name-drops Nicholas Roeg's bizarro thriller Don't Look Now on another, Swamp Thing soliloquizes at length like Hamlet pondering Yorick's skull. It's an action-packed debut, intensified by experimentation in layout and pacing, and shot through with Moore's humor and gravitas. Moore went right to work raising the stakes on "Loose Ends," creating the corporate mercenaries of Sunderland, whose lethal pursuit and attempted murder of Swamp Thing, and pretty much everyone associated with self Alec Holland (his former human), shoved aside the more personal intrigue of previous Swamp Thing issues.
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