Talk:Swamp Thing

Real/Fictional Placement

It seems to me, as an encyclopedia article, not a "Who's Who in the DC Universe" fictional comic bio, that Fictional Character Biography should come after Publication History as it reflects the conceptual and real world development of the character which is the primary purpose of an encyclopedia article. If you were doing a report or article on the character, the fictional biography, which is generally pretty fluid and often reflects what is currently written as canon to the character, isn't the primary information that you'd be looking for. I'm not arguing that it shouldn't be included. But the Publication History and real world facts should take precedence over it. beanlynch 15:25, May 3, 2017 (UTC)

Moore Vandalism

This section is entirely untrue: He also caused some significant controversy by having young (assumed by many to be underage) Kate Chappel fall in love with the Swamp Thing. During her confession to him, she uttered the well-known line, "You aren't ugly. Your face is just... complex. I like it." There was never a character in Swamp Thing called Kate Chappel, nor did the series ever deal with underage love.

Plot summary

I cut the following section, titled "Key plot lines under Alan Moore". It has style problems, but more than that, it only describes a single plot line (or maybe one and a half). If someone really wants to do a summary of the whole series, go ahead, although there are plenty of fan sites for that. ←Hob 19:10, 2005 Feb 26 (UTC)

After the revelation that he is not human in 'The Anatomy Lesson' Swamp Thing Returns to Louisiana. SW's relationship with Abigail Arcane deepens, but it turns out she has been engaged in an incestuous relationship with her own uncle (disguised as her husband, who has secretly been killed). Abigail's soul is sent to hell, but in an issue modelled on Dante's Inferno, SW follows Abigail, encountering characters such as The Spectre en route, and eventually rescues her.

Just as a note, the "Saga of the Swamp Thing" link now redirects to this artice, making it a recursively pointless mess. I can only assume there was once a seperate page for this storyline/comic. I don't know much about it myself so I'm not touching it, though I assume the best thing to do is just change the link to normal text. Just a heads up to the editors working on this page.--Lord Shitzu 12:33, Mar 25, 2005 (UTC)

Collections?

With four series and so many authors, is there a coherent set of trade paperbacks available for this series? Is anyone up to the task of cataloguing them? Has someone done so already? If I want to get into the series, where's a good place to start? Moore's run kicked off the whole British Invasion of the 1980s, right? grendel|khan 16:44, 2005 Apr 22 (UTC)

Added Collections of existing TPBs. (I am not sure if the 4th series has been collected beyond Bad Seed) -Grumpyhan 16:13, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Solomon Grundy

Solomon Grundy's origin is very similar to the Heap and he was introduced at DC not long after the Heap in the early 40's. Grundy has appeared in recent years in Robinson's Starman and in some memorable episodes of Justice League Unlimited. He deserves a page of his own, but I don't have time to dig out my old Green Lantern/Starman reprints.

Yes, and in one of Rick Veitch's Swamp Thing storylines, Grundy almost becomes Swamp Thing's successor. (That whole bit was probably totally mystifying to anyone who wasn't familiar with DC's long history of odd characters, but the same is true of much of Moore's DC writing, not to mention Neil Gaiman...) ←Hob 15:18, 2005 Jun 13 (UTC)

2016 6 Issue Mini Series

There is a new 6 issue series by DC Comics that started cover date March 2016. It is written by Len Wein. It is set in New 52, but not exactly as it seems to not entirely follow all of the New 52 changes to the parliament of the Green. Would that be considered a Volume 6, or just a mini series?

Can somebody share a quote from Comics Interview #102?

The section on Nancy Collins states that there is an attempt to restore a pre-Moore feeling to the series, and cites an interview in Comics Interview #102. Does anybody have this, and if so, can you share the supporting quotation, specifically the mention of Moore? Thanks.

Additional citations needed

I removed the Refimprove template that was added six years ago. While there is room for improvement, i.e., there are some paragraphs that would benefit from a citation, the article has a typical percentage of reliable citations for a C-class article IMHO. May I suggest that we look for citations rather than debating whether the Refimprove template should be added back? (I hope that doesn't sound snarky).   - Mark D Worthen PsyD (talk) 05:49, 10 December 2017 (UTC)

Best of lists

The article does not currently include any best of lists where comic book superheroes are compared and ranked. Currently there is only one mention in the intro (which is supposed to summarize the article) but nothing in the article itself.

• Wizard rated Swamp Thing 78 out of 200 [1]
  • (better source and a citation for the specific issue might be necessary, Wizard has done various lists so he might be higher rated on other lists)
• Empire rated Swamp thing 29 on their list The 50 greatest comic-book characters
• IGN rated Swamp Thing 28th on their list of the Top 100 Comic Book Heroes
• PasteMagazine listed Swamp Thing 27th on their list
  • (also Anton Arcane 94th)

Not sure where best to add this to the article, and not sure what form would be best (well prose is best but a list would the easiest way to start). Maybe there are more sources or better sources. Maybe these lists need to be presented with context to be explain the date they were published or if it is a specific version of Swamp Thing that receives most of the praise. I leave these links here for now and maybe I'll add them to the article later, but if someone thinks they know a good way to include them in the article then please go ahead. -- 109.76.211.92 (talk) 01:56, 10 June 2019 (UTC)