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Continuing the hardcover collections of Alan Moore's award-winning run on THE SAGA OF THE SWAMP THING, this third volume is brimming with visceral horrors including underwater vampires, a werewolf with an unusual curse, the hideous madman called Nukeface. Best of all, this volume features the comics debut of John Constantine, Hellblazer, who launches Swamp Thing on a voyage of self-discovery that will take him from the darkest corners of America to the roots of his own long-hidden heritage.
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If you bought the first two, I bet you are going to like this one too..., Aug 23 2010
By Carla G. Dávalos Rdz "Chuckymonster" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Saga of the Swamp Thing Book Three (Hardcover)
This third volume of Alan Moore's Swamp Thing run not only has the first appearance of one of my favorite comic book characters (John Constantine)it really set up the bases of what would some years later become DC's Vertigo line. This volume contains issues 35-42 and has some pretty innovative tales with Swampy taking on some classic monsters like vampires and werewolves, from a totally unexpected perspective, and while there's some stories that betray their eighties origin (Nukeface) and the first two volumes are better overall, an above average Alan Moore Swamp Thing storyline is better than 95% what's being published today (even from the current Alan Moore) Furthermore, the introduction Constantine gives Swamp Thing a guide on a journey which will take him to confront his origins with the Parliament of Trees and the pinnacle of Moore's run with the brilliant confrontation with the Brujeria on the next volume.From here on out Swamp Thing would still interact with mainstream DC characters (especially in the next two volumes) but Moore's sophisticated take on superheroes and mature storylines would lead him to smash the superhero stereotype wide open with Watchmen, and give birth (along with Neil Gaiman's Sandman) to Vertigo.
This volume maintains the same slick style dust jacket of the second book, instead of the wax paper presentation from the first book (and the same plain engraving on the board cover instead of the haunting image from book one) overall its has pretty much the same presentation. The paper is still not the high grade quality from the Absolute editions, but at least in Amazon you get a pretty good price, only a couple of buck higher than the standard soft cover versions, so it's a pretty sweet deal.
I can't wait to have all six volumes line up in my bookshelf!
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A treat for old and new fans of Alan Moore and Swamp Thing, Jan 26 2011
By GraphicNovelReporter.com - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Saga of the Swamp Thing Book Three (Hardcover)
Containing Saga of the Swamp Thing issues 35 through 42 from 1985, including infamous and still-chilling stories dealing with nuclear waste, vampires, werewolves, and racism, this is horror at its most meaningful and its deepest. Alan Moore's scripts still stand out as gems of pace, characterization, and tone.These eight stories have been reviewed time and time again over the last 25 years, so let me concentrate here on presentation, which is excellent. The hardcover is very well made with a simple yet striking cover. The paper quality is good but not super-white like the original trade paperback reprints, doing justice to both the line art and Tatjana Wood's colors, which still put most modern comics to shame. All told, these tales probably never looked better, not even in their original publications.
The volume opens with a brand-new introduction by artist Stephen Bissette that provides some context behind the stories and history of their publication. Possibly for the first time, this essay allows us to understand that many of the ideas in this book came not only from Alan Moore but from Bissette and collaborator John Totleben. Bissette also puts some of these stories into their historical context, especially the "Nukeface Papers" serial, which was inspired in part by the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant just six years earlier.
If you've never read Moore's Swamp Thing stories before, you're in for a treat. If you have read them, this is definitely the edition to revisit. Well worth the $25 cover price. Look for Volume 4 in February.
-- John R. Platt
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One of the best, Dec 19 2010
By walter boring - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Saga of the Swamp Thing Book Three (Hardcover)
Is hard to write a review for Alan Moore's run on swamp thing, this is a ground breaking masterpiece. But perhaps is best to say why isn't an absolute edition out? Because of the recycling paper this edition sports? This run is far superior to watchmen (it should get an absolute) if your a Moore fan this should be in your collection. There's so many well thought moments in this run that is safe to say that no one has ever come close to igniting so much passion and so much character into this book, ever again. My only complain is how the color looks, it doesn't look like is been remastered although it looks better than the previous collection (the new digital dowload looks way better). Except for that, the hardcover is great. I suggest that you get them all, for is such a powerhouse of story telling, it has moments of joy, action, and sadness, that after you read the run, it will grow in your mind because it will plant a seed of wonder in your brain I will never forget the saga of the swamp thing and neither will you.
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