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Swamp Thing #88-98 (1989-1990)
Written by Doug Wheeler
Art by Pat Broderick/Alfredo Alcala, except #88-89 by Tom Yeates, #94 by Kelley Jones, #98 by Tom Sutton/Alcala
I keep forgetting to mention the covers. John Totleben is still doing them, and they're consistently gorgeous—so if I'd been buying the comic every month back then, I might have stuck with it through this patch just for the covers. Maybe.
Who is Doug Wheeler? I've been unable to find out anything about his previous or later work in comics; all I know is that a lot of people really don't like him. Anyway, now he's writing Swamp Thing and, given Rick Veitch's abrupt departure, it's no surprise that the attempt to follow through on Veitch's two big storylines is a bit clunky (the effort to get around the fact that the Holy Grail was a plot element, but then the part about Jesus had to be removed, is particularly arbitrary). Unfortunately what comes after that is not super interesting either.
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Written by Doug Wheeler
Art by Pat Broderick/Alfredo Alcala, except #88-89 by Tom Yeates, #94 by Kelley Jones, #98 by Tom Sutton/Alcala
I keep forgetting to mention the covers. John Totleben is still doing them, and they're consistently gorgeous—so if I'd been buying the comic every month back then, I might have stuck with it through this patch just for the covers. Maybe.
Who is Doug Wheeler? I've been unable to find out anything about his previous or later work in comics; all I know is that a lot of people really don't like him. Anyway, now he's writing Swamp Thing and, given Rick Veitch's abrupt departure, it's no surprise that the attempt to follow through on Veitch's two big storylines is a bit clunky (the effort to get around the fact that the Holy Grail was a plot element, but then the part about Jesus had to be removed, is particularly arbitrary). Unfortunately what comes after that is not super interesting either.
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