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Scott Snyder is one of comics' best young writers. His current works include Batman, American Vampire and Swamp Thing. He has also been published in Zoetrope, Tin House, One-Story, Epoch, Small Spiral Notebook, and other journals, and has a short story collection, Voodoo Heart, which was published by Dial Press. He teaches at Columbia University and Sarah Lawrence University and lives in New York with his wife, Jeanie, and their children.
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- Series: Swamp Thing (Book 2)
- Paperback: 160 pages
- Publisher: DC Comics; First Edition edition (April 16, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1401238432
- ISBN-13: 978-1401238438
- Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 7.1 x 0.2 inches
- Shipping Weight: 13.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Where Batman is getting all of the attention for writer Scott Snyder, his other little lesser known DC Comics-related series Swamp Thing is doing a marvelous job on its own. I guess that's what you get when you are one of the hot writers in the comic world right now, huh? And let's not forget his great work with Vertigo's American Vampire series (currently on hiatus until the end of 2013) and the upcoming series, Superman Unchained and The Wake. When you have that much of a work load, you have to wonder if the guy works himself thin from doing so many different books. Does Swamp Thing volume 2 back up that theory? I can safely no. Snyder continues to write a great series on Alec Holland as the current swamp monster.
SWAMP THING VOL.2: FAMILY TIES collects issues # 8-11, #0, and ANNUAL #1. Picking up right where Swamp Thing Vol. 1: Raise Them Bones (The New 52) left off, Alec Holland has finally accepted his role as the new Swamp Thing. Complete with a new look, streamlined armor, and a thorny crown for the warrior king, Swamp Thing is on his way to fight back Sethe, one of the lords of Rot, from taking Abigail Arcane as the new Queen of the Rot. The battle will decide if Abigail is still savable or too far gone. And in the conclusion of the battle, an old enemy and greatest foe of Swamp Thing returns: Anton Arcane.
After the cliff hanger ending from volume 1, issues #8-#9 is the conclusion of the battle against Sethe and it is one heck of a fight for the soul of Abigail.
When I heard Scott Snyder took over writing Swamp Thing I was very excited. I really enjoyed Snyder's Batman work and I was hoping for a series approaching the intelligence and depth of Alan Moore's Swamp Thing, which remains my favorite series of all time. I purchased the first three trade paperbacks of Snyder's Swamp Thing. So far I've read about 2/3 through the second TPB and have been enormously dissapointed. I'll probably finish the TPBs I've purchased, but I won't be continuing the series.
This book is very graphic and violent, so I suppose its not aimed at children. However, it has no emotional or intellectual depth whatsoever, and is also utterly devoid of characterization. The book is completely plot-driven (although I'm not sure the plot even makes sense.) What it amounts to is nothing but an action-comic featuring green monsters punching and slaughtering red monsters, and vice-versa. Honestly, you can finish the whole thing in an hour and forget it within two.
The plot is ridiculously repetitive and banal. Within the first ten issues Swamp Thing's girlfriend is kidnapped twice by a "rot" creature and he has to save her. Snyder is obviously trying to relate this to Alan Moore's run because he is using all of the same characters, but he does a very poor job reconciling the two. I think Moore would cringe if he saw Swamp Thing flying into battle in wooden armor with vine wings against an undead horde.
The dialogue is also completely cliche and made me roll my eyes. I can't count how many times the following exchange or something like it was had:
Good Guy: "This ends here/now!"
Bad Guy: "No, this is only the beginning!"
The artwork was adequate, but tiring.
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