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Vaughan’s Swamp Thing finale is a cop-out mess. Worst is the last page, which references a famous old Swamp Thing shot, not because the homage is a bad idea, but because Camuncoli is such a terrible artist. Even with Cameron Stewart inking, these are easily the two worst illustrated issues of the series (no wonder […]

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The real Swamp Thing–Swamp Thing of Earth-1–and Tefé waste an issue talking. Vaughan really thinks using curse words makes him a good writer. It’s so neat to see someone making that senior in high school, freshman in college mistake. It’s should be a metaphor for Tefé’s character, but it isn’t.
This issue, the Five Easy Pieces […]

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There are two surprises at the end of the last of these issues. First, the real Swamp Thing finally shows up (Vaughan’s run has shown, better than it’s done anything else, Tefé is the Corey Haim of Swamp Things). The other surprise is the big villain woman is really the big villain man in drag. […]

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Finally. Vaughan finally realizes no one’s been suspending his or her disbelief and gets an honest conversation into the comic. Tefé’s a gullible twit. In not so many words, her two wannabe boyfriends get around to having the conversation of her not being the most discerning individual.
Vaughan even leads into the second issue well, by […]

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There’s a disconnect between writing and art after Deadman’s second issue. It takes Jones a long time–two issues being a long time for this one–to define what the series is going to be (an almost-espionage thriller with a few twists, major and minor) and once he does, Watkiss’s art doesn’t work anymore. Yes, seeing Watkiss […]

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