Swamp Thing (USA) di Scott Snyder

[Azrael]

Preview: Swamp Thing #9

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[Azrael]

We've been seeing a lot of changes with the main characters. Some have been good and some have been pretty bad. The playing field has gone to a whole new level and how Swamp Thing deals with it is going to be interesting.
The Good
It's no secret how much I love Scott Snyder's writing. Yet he seems to constantly take these great characters and put them in foul situations. Alec Holland has been dealing with his return from the dead and fighting against the Parliament of Trees in their message that he was meant to become their avatar as Swamp Thing. When things got to their lowest point, he accepted his destiny and became Swamp Thing...only to find things got even worse and he is now facing a familiar face in a horrible form. Surrounded by others that have been turned by the Rot, it's not shaping up to be too great of a day for Alec.

The mixture of Snyder's storytelling with Yanick Paquette and Marco Rudy's art is amazing yet highly disturbing at the same time. You become engrossed in the story but are almost left with a continuing sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach. That shows the impact of the story. You do feel for the characters and can understand just how bad the situation is. Swamp Thing made a glorious return with his transformation but he is getting beat to hell in this issue.

The Bad
I got so sucked into this issue, I found myself reading each page faster and faster to find out what was going to happen next. That resulted in it being over too quickly.

And of course, Snyder's roller coaster ride of emotions continues. Just when you think you know where the story is going to go, you get kicked in the gut.

The Verdict
There has been a common theme in many of the "New 52" stories. While we've been getting great stories in many different titles, some of them almost feel as if they've been going on a little too long. With SWAMP THING, I've found myself surprised at how long it took for Swamp Thing to even make an appearance in the title. This isn't necessarily a bad thing but with nine issues, we've been witnessing Alec Holland deal with the same threat. That being said, the story has been been progressing and takes a huge leap here. This is clearly not an issue to be missed. There are big things happening here. Reading this is like watching a movie, you'll want to make sure you stick around to the very end. Just when you think you know where the story is going, Snyder pulls the rug from beneath your feet. The art by Paquette and Rudy is both wonderful and disturbing. Seeing people running with their heads twisted around is not something you expect to see. This is simply a title I am happy to read each month. It feels like a guilty pleasure and watching Snyder beat up the main characters is almost like watching a high speed race. You crave the intensity but know the chances of a fatal crash lies around every corner. This arc may be complete but the overall story is far from being over. There is some closure but there are going to be serious repercussions coming. Now comes the hard part of having to wait another full month for the next issue.

5 su 5

Da CVine

[Buddy Baker]

Questa serie si conferma su livelli altissimi fa impressione pensare che Snyder stia scrivendo due delle migliori serie Dc in contemporanea, davvero bravissimo

[Silver Surfer]

Un mio amico mi ha chiesto quali fossero le serie dei nuovi 52 che secondo me valesse la pena seguire. Io gli ho risposto immediatamente Swamp Thing e Aquaman in questo ordine. Solo che lui seguirà in italiano per cui dovrà aspettare i Tp semestrali suppongo.

[Buddy Baker]

Un mio amico mi ha chiesto quali fossero le serie dei nuovi 52 che secondo me valesse la pena seguire. Io gli ho risposto immediatamente Swamp Thing e Aquaman in questo ordine. Solo che lui seguirà in italiano per cui dovrà aspettare i Tp semestrali suppongo.

Digli anche Animal Man, oltre ad essere stupenda si sta man mano collegando con Swamp Thing (ma forse leggendole in effetti già lo sai)

[Silver Surfer]

Infatti gli ho seuggerito anche Animal Man, specificando però che non leggendola personalmente mi sono affidato in toto al commento di altri amici (e ovviamente in primis stavo pensando proprio a te  ).

[Buddy Baker]

Infatti gli ho seuggerito anche Animal Man, specificando però che non leggendola personalmente mi sono affidato in toto al commento di altri amici (e ovviamente in primis stavo pensando proprio a te  ).

Grande! 

Se supera l'impatto coi disegni gli piacerà tantissimo è un'ottima serie (e a breve mi arriva il tp, è già in viaggio  )!

[Azrael]

The story behind this might be simple enough — Swamp Thing has to convince Abby Arcane to fight off the mind-bending effects of the Rot — but damn if it doesn't look super-pretty, as well. Writer Scott Snyder more or less provides a bare minimum of structure to just let Yanick Paquette and Marco Rudy go to town, and while for many comics this would be suicide, this dream team has what it takes to deliver. Paquette is the powerhouse of the group, giving the inhuman Swamp Thing some surprising humanity with his body language, the sort of sad slump as he tries to reason with his one true love. I also adore Paquette's inking, a really lush use of shadow that particularly pops when we see Abby reach out from her parasitic prison for the first time. Marco Rudy takes a little longer to warm up, with a lot of shots that are either distance shots or blurred by wind and debris (called for in the script, in his defense); that said, by the end of the book, he's pulling out some amazing layout tricks, particularly with Abby framing a page like a dark angel of vengeance. Whew. It's a fairly quick read, as the story is essentially resist-blast-repeat (with a weird victory involving spiking someone's peaches?), but despite that simplicity, Swamp Thing continues to be one of DC's best-looking books.

8 out of 10

Da Newsarama

[Silver Surfer]

Questa mattina mi sono (ri)letto i primi 8 albi e devo convenire che Snyder sta facendo un ottimo lavoro sul personaggio. Non solo ricostruisce tutta l'architettura su cui si fonda Swamp Thing

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introducendo nuovi elementi che bene si sposano con il tono della testata, ma soprattutto esplora in profondità il nuovo Alec Holland, il suo rapporto con il Verde e con

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Ho trovato anche molto azzeccata l'idea di

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Molto coinvolgenti anche i disegni di Paquette, che è attualmente uno tra i miei disegnatori preferiti. Anche se da lontano il suo tratto può apparire abbozzato, è incredibile la quantità di dettagli e di realismo che riesce a utilizzare negli sfondi (ovviamente soprattutto nella vegetazione, ma anche nelle architetture) e nei personaggi (specie quando deve disegnare cadaveri). Secondo me, un ottimo prodotto, distante sia dal classico fumetto di supereroi, sia dalla versione di Moore, ma comunque con una trama piuttosto avvincente.

[Azrael]

Things come to a head in Scott Snyder, Yanick Paquette, and Marco Rudy's "Swamp Thing" #9, as Alec continues to embrace his role as Swamp Thing and battles Abby, recently overcome by the rot, as much to save her as to save the world. Snyder's "Swamp Thing" has been incredibly enjoyable, even for someone pretty unfamiliar with "Swamp Thing" (as I am) and how this story is beginning to cross over with "Animal Man," one of the other great books from DC right now, is quite well done.

Snyder has done an excellent job of building the relationship of Alec and Abby and playing both on the hints of what came before and that connection the two feel, but also in building something new. In this issue we have Swamp Thing up against seemingly impossible odds as Abby has been turned (in a bit of a surprise) to "The Queen of The Rot." I feared as we headed into this showdown that Snyder was going to rely on the time honored "we built the stakes up but now I am just going to show the good guy winning through the power of words," but I should have remembered that Snyder is too smart a writer for that, so we end up with a nice plot twist that still feels authentic to what we have seen thus far in the book. It's a good move and saves the book from becoming cliché or mediocre, turning it instead toward rewarding and surprising.

Marco Rudy is a good choice to share art duties with Yanick Paquette, as Rudy either shares the same style as Paquette, or does a good job of mimicking it, but it's still disorienting for such a major point in the book to have shared art duties. It feels like a time when one artist should be in control and as a result the book suffers a bit visually for it, even though it's still a good-looking book on the whole. Paquette's visuals have been a great fit for this book with his almost organic and flexible layouts and aggressively bold illustration work. Unfortunately, Rudy does not fare as well with the organic layouts and the story becomes a bit more confusing. Even with these flaws though, it's still one of the better-drawn books I'm reading. It helps that both Nathan Fairbairn and Val Staples are exceptional colorists who bring just the right amount of lightness and darkness to this horror book, which could easily trend too dark, but doesn't.

Thanks to the talent on both "Swamp Thing" and "Animal Man" I find myself not only enjoying these books immensely, but also actually looking forward to their crossover -- which is no small feat!

4 su 5

Da CBR

[marco_sanfy00]

Un mio amico mi ha chiesto quali fossero le serie dei nuovi 52 che secondo me valesse la pena seguire. Io gli ho risposto immediatamente Swamp Thing e Aquaman in questo ordine. Solo che lui seguirà in italiano per cui dovrà aspettare i Tp semestrali suppongo.

Digli anche Animal Man, oltre ad essere stupenda si sta man mano collegando con Swamp Thing (ma forse leggendole in effetti già lo sai)

nonchè Batman e B&R

[Azrael]

SWAMP THING #12
Written by SCOTT SNYDER
Art by MARCO RUDY
Cover by YANICK PAQUETTE with STEVE PUGH
On sale AUGUST 1 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED T+
• Prelude to "ROTWORLD"!
• Continued from this month's ANIMAL MAN #12!
• ANIMAL MAN and SWAMP THING – together at last!

[Bruce Wayne]

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[Silver Surfer]

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Ma devo ordinare anche Animal Man 12 o posso farne a meno?

[Bruce Wayne]

Sopra c'è scritta che "continua da Animal Man #12" quindi suppongo di sì.