[Dr Kain]

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Meteor

Can I just say that I hear everybody preach about how good Moore's run on Swamp Thing was , but I could never get into his writing. My first exposure to Swampy was the Return of Swamp Thing movie and the cartoon and 90's toy line. He will forever be that in my mind and until someone less pretentious writes a Swamp Thing book and makes him the outright superhero that I knew him as , as a kid. I won't bother.

Batman and just about any other DC hero can float in and out of serious stories , but for some reason Swamp Thing gets stuck in this super dark , serious side of DC. Join the Justice League , have a pet sidekick , punch the Joker! Do something fun for god sakes!

Swamp Thing is not supposed to be a super hero, he was first and foremost a horror comic. Like the Crypt Keeper, Dracula, etc. That is like saying V should be a super hero because he fights an evil government. I like Swamp Thing because he is a tragic character with a huge mythology surrounding him. I would not want him to just go about fighting Crime and such because that is not what he is meant to be. Even in the original comics from Len Wein he is not a super hero. The only reason he travels to Gotham is because the guy that killed him, his wife, and kidnapped Abby is there.

There is a reason that cartoon from the 90s only lasted 5 episodes and the Return of Swamp Thing sucked. I don't care for the first movie, but at least it kept it horror based.