ST206 Cosmic Swamp Thing and Moore's Legacy
What Moore left
The run as a whole: what it did to the character, to DC, to horror comics, and to the idea of the mainstream.
Reading for this lesson
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Required Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel Annalisa Di Liddo the chapter on Swamp Thing
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Recommended Alan Moore and the Gothic Tradition Matthew J. A. Green (editor) the introduction and one chapter
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Optional Alan Moore, Out from the Underground: Cartooning, Performance, and Dissent Maggie Gray the chapters on the American work
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Recommended From Cancellation to Resurrection: The History of Rick Veitch's "Swamp Thing 1989" the whole article
The immediate aftermath.