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One of the silly things about new writers taking over old characters is the neon fingerprints. Instead of continuing the old, they do something crazy to start–something to make their take on the character and the character’s world startlingly different. In Vaughan’s case, it’s his handling of the Green. Basically put, he gives all the […]

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I think it’d be funny to be false about Vaughan’s Swamp Thing, to compliment him on such cool moves as making his vegetarian ex-Marine a fan of Kurosawa, instead of laughing. I mean… I really don’t think Vaughan listened in any of his NYU writing classes (or maybe the program is really, really “experimental,” teaching […]

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Obviously, Brian K. Vaughan has had some creative writing classes. Unimaginative ones. He pays homage to them in Swamp Thing #3, an atrocious done-in-one set on a crabbing ship. The issue opens all right–Tefé keeps trying to get her narration right… until Vaughan reveals it isn’t Tefé narrating, but one of her shipmates, a young […]

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Relaunching Swamp Thing has proved quite the pickle for Vertigo… unless Warner Bros. manages to turn it in to a successful action movie starring Vin Diesel as Swamp Thing and Emilio Estevez as Alec Holland, I think the franchise is going to be dormant for quite a while. I’ve got a lot of love for […]

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