Rick Veitch, John Totleben, and Alfredo Alcala did a fine job on the art chores, along with Tom Yeates. The writing is still top notch, though, even in the fill-in issues written by Stephen Bissette. The cynic in me thinks maybe Alan Moore should have stopped with the last volume and let Rick Veitch get Old Swampy back to earth but he still delivered the goods. It feels tired in a lot of ways, though, like Moore is running out the clock. It's also a good ending for the Alec Holland Swamp thing if one never reads another Swamp Thing comic. In some ways, this feels like a reset to status quo, a fitting end to Moore's run. Old Swampy ends the famine on a dying world, fathers children against his will with a clockwork cyborg plant thing, visits a world of sentient plants, bumps into Metron of the New Gods, and finally ends up back on Earth. Whatever happened to that book.Īnyway, this volume is more science fiction and fantasy than the thought provoking horror of the previous volumes.

He travels from Rann to Apokalips and all points in between, looking for a way to get back home to Earth and to Abbie Cable.Īlan Moore was stretched very thin at this point, simultaneously working on Watchmen. In the aftermath of the previous book, Swamp Thing finds himself light years away from home. Saga of the Swamp Thing Book 6 collects issues 57-64 of Swamp Thing, Alan Moore's last.

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