DC Flips the Script on an Iconic Swamp Thing Story
Warning: contains spoilers for The Swamp Thing #11!
The Anatomy Lesson” is one of Swamp Thing’s most iconic stories, and now DC has flipped the script on it. The story saw the Floronic Man perform an autopsy on Swamp Thing and learn of his true nature in the process. Now, in The Swamp Thing #11, the Floronic Man once again finds himself cutting up a Swamp Thing—but it goes much different this time. The issue, the first of the book’s second season, is on sale now in print and digital.
In 1982, DC Comics launched The Saga of the Swamp Thing to coincide with the release of the Wes Craven-directed film. The movie was a flop, and the book floundered. Editor (and Swamp Thing co-creator) Len Wein rolled the dice, giving the soon-to-be-canceled book over to a relative newcomer to American comics: V for Vendetta creator Alan Moore. Moore hit the ground running, upending everything readers thought they knew about Swamp Thing in 1984’s Saga of the Swamp Thing #21. In the story, titled “The Anatomy Lesson,” Jason Woodrue AKA the Floronic Man, dissects the captured Swamp Thing at the request of General Sunderland, in a bid to weaponize the creature. The Floronic Man discovered much more instead—that Swamp Thing had never been human and was a plant creature with a man’s memories. The story set the tone for the rest of Moore’s run, and remains iconic to this day. Now, DC flips the story on its head in The Swamp Thing #11, written by Ram V, illustrated by Mike Perkins, colored by Mike Spicer and lettered by Aditya Bidikar.
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