I received my weekend pass to the New York City Comic Con earlier this week. I breathed a sigh of relief. Not that it was delivered, but that I didn't toss it in the trash with my junk mail. I then searched the site to buy the Iron Man lithograph. I had remembered reading about it but had failed to see it listed in the store. No luck, so I Googled like crazy until I found a reference to the print. How do you get one? Buy a NYCC VIP package, that’s how! They will only make about 400 and the first 100 will be signed by Joe Q. How do you get one? You buy a NYCC VIP package, that’s how! For only $400.00 you receive the print, VIP seating, a bust, tee shirt and other sundries. I had neglected to read the fine print in the VIP blurb. Oh well. No interest in a lot of the VIP perks, and with the state of the economy, not enough dough!
The creature, called Swamp Thing, was originally conceived as Alec Holland mutating into a vegetable-like creature, a "muck-encrusted mockery of a man". However, under writer Alan Moore, Swamp Thing was reinvented as an elemental entity created upon the death of Alec Holland, with Holland's memory and personality intact. He is described as "a plant that thought it was Alec Holland, a plant that was trying its level best to be Alec Holland."
Alan Moore's Swamp Thing had a profound effect on mainstream comic books, being the first horror comic to approach the genre from a literary point of view since the EC horror comics of the 1950's, and broadened the scope of the series to include ecological and spiritual concerns while retaining its horror-fantasy roots.
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