![]() ![]() Once I forgave Nestor Redondo for not being Berni Wrightson, I liked his art quite a bit as well. Wein uses a lot of captions for narrative effect, much like the EC comics, and Berni Wrightson's moody artwork is straight out of the Vault of Horror. I don't know if Joe Orlando's editorial direction had anything to do with it but Len Wein and Berni Wrightson (and later Nestor Redondo) crafted something that feels like a throwback to the EC horror comics of the 1950s. ![]() I've read some of the Alan Moore issues but I've never read any of the originals until now. Like a lot of people my age, my first exposure to Swamp Thing was the Wes Craven movie from 1982. Swamp Thing: The Bronze Age Volume one collects a story from The House of Secrets #92 and Swamp Thing #1-13. When scientist Alec Holland and his wife Linda are murdered to gain access to their bio-restorative formula, Alec rises from his watery grave as Swamp Thing! ![]()
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