Swamp Thing #15-29 (2005-2006)
Written by Joshua Dysart
Art by Enrique Breccia, except #19 by Ronald Wimberly, #20 by Richard Corben, #25 by Dean Ormston, #26 by Jock
We haven't really had a new major point-of-view character in Swamp Thing for a while (aside from the Vaughan series, where they were all new). Dysart creates a good one in Jordan Schiller, a scientist whose connection to Swamp Thing goes all the way back to the Alec and Linda Holland days—and rather than being just a plot device or an excuse for further retcons, this idea leads to some of the most interesting character writing we've had in the series in a long time, even if things do still kind of fall apart toward the end.
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Written by Joshua Dysart
Art by Enrique Breccia, except #19 by Ronald Wimberly, #20 by Richard Corben, #25 by Dean Ormston, #26 by Jock
We haven't really had a new major point-of-view character in Swamp Thing for a while (aside from the Vaughan series, where they were all new). Dysart creates a good one in Jordan Schiller, a scientist whose connection to Swamp Thing goes all the way back to the Alec and Linda Holland days—and rather than being just a plot device or an excuse for further retcons, this idea leads to some of the most interesting character writing we've had in the series in a long time, even if things do still kind of fall apart toward the end.
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