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Chargement... The Return of Swamp Thingpar Peter David
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Then he read the script.
"By a third of the way through, I was having intestinal cramps. By the end of the script, I was bleeding out my eyeballs."
So he threw out craploads of the script and decided to make the best one-shot self-contained novelization of the Alan Moore-style Swamp Thing he could.
There's characters rewritten to have actual motivations. There's a much more accurate Swamp Thing than every saw the silver screen. There's comics in-jokes, including a Superman reference that made me laugh out loud. There's Alan Goddamn Snake-Worshipped Moore himself in the middle of everything, smugly playing almost a Rod Serling role as the owner of the Wein Hotel in the middle of things.
There's even a new ending.
And, most importantly, there's a romance between a moss-encrusted mockery of a man who used to be a scientist and the daughter of his mad scientist arch-nemesis.
Big damn fun.
The only thing the movie has on the novel? An opening sequence of Swamp Thing covers set to Creedance Clearwater's "Born on the Bayou." Seriously, I worn out my VHS copy rewatching that part. To a ten year-old, that was high art.
I'll quote DC executive Bob Greenberger: "Skip the movie. Read the book." ( )