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Out this week: Poison Ivy/Swamp Thing: Feral Trees (DC, $5.99):
Regular Poison Ivy scribe G. Willow Wilson teams with Mike Perkins for this one-shot that finds Pamela Isley teaming up with the Swamp Thing to investigate a feral presence growing within the Green.
Out this week: Swamp Thing by Rick Veitch, Book One: Wild Things (DC, $29.99): Oh, now this is both interesting and welcome — DC begins to collect Rick Veitch’s run on Swamp Thing, which ended in controversial fashion. This first volume features the beginning of his run, from issue #65 through #73, as well as the issues of Hellblazer that crossed over around that time by Jamie Delano and John Ridgway. It also includes a story from Secret Origin #23 that Veitch wrote featuring the Floronic Man, with art by Brett Irwin.
The question I have, though, is whether we’ll see a second volume — and if that volume will include the version of Swamp Thing #88 that Veitch wrote and Michael Zulli drew, that featured Swamp Thing meeting Jesus Christ. The controversial issue was completed but never published, and Veitch quit the title as a result. Which is too bad, because it was part of a bigger time travel epic that Veitch never got to finish.
This is Clayton Crain's variant cover for Poison Ivy/Swamp Thing: Feral Trees (DC, October 2024).
This is Ashley Wood's variant cover for Poison Ivy/Swamp Thing: Feral Trees (DC, October 2024).
In addition to continuing to write the ongoing Poison Ivy series, G. Willow Wilson will team with Mike Perkins for Poison Ivy/Swamp Thing: Feral Trees in October. It’ll feature the Parliament of Trees enlisting Poison Ivy and Swamp Thing to investigate a feral presence within the Green. This is Perkins' variant cover for the one-shot.
Out this week: DC’s Legion of Bloom (DC, $9.99):
Grab your Benadryl and get ready for Spring, as DC presents a new anthology celebrating the end of winter and the beginning of allergy season. It features stories by Ashley Allen, Julio Anta, Calvin Kasulke, Travis Moore, Kenny Porter, Cavan Scott, Zac Thompson, Isaac Goodhart, Brian Level, Travis Moore, Jacoby Salcedo, Hayden Sherman, Atagun Ilhan and more.
Happy Birthday to the late Len Wein, who sadly passed away in 2017
Happy Birthday to Rick Veitch!
Today in 1971, the first Swamp Thing shambled into the world in a story for House of Secrets #92 by Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson!
Alec Holland fights for the last humans alive in the new Black Label miniseries.
Swamp Thing: Green Hell #1 is in stores this week.
This is an interior panel by Doug Mahnke from Swamp Thing Green Hell #1.
Here’s a look at Christian Ward’s variant cover for Swamp Thing Green Hell #1 (December 2021).
Alec Holland fights for the last humans alive in the new Black Label miniseries.
Ram V and Mike Perkins, who will work on the character during Future State, will re-team for the new series.
Swamp Thing #1 arrives in comic shops today. See what else is coming to comic book stores this week.
