Sam is a Senior Writer for Collider. His love for movies, TV shows, and books stretches back to his early childhood and has grown exponentially with every passing year. Lucky for him, this love grew ...

Walt Braley is a comedy and entertainment writer based in Chicago. He tries to explore the most interesting (or hilarious) facets of media and pop-culture using a mixture of humor and thorough ...

Botanist Alec Holland became the avatar of the Green, known as the Swamp Thing, following his death in a swamp as a result of a horrific accident. With the ability to control any form of plant life, ...

A Vermonter helped make Swamp Thing a hit comics character in the 1980s, and now he's earned the state's highest honor for cartoonists. Stephen Bissette of Windsor, a Vermont native whose work ...

In March 2024, Bleeding Cool ran the story "Might DC Comics Finally Publish Rick Veitch's Swamp Thing #88 in 2025?" We were a year off. Today sees the publication of Swamp Thing #88, or Swamp Thing ...

Swamp Thing has always been a character that teetered on the edge of what was considered clean. By that, I mean that his stories have always been rooted in the supernatural and religious in a way that ...

DC's "DC Vertigo" panel at NYCC brought with it an announcement 36 years in the making. Not only did they unveil the new lineup of comics that comprise the relaunched Vertigo imprint, but the ...

Swamp Thing might not be the first character who comes to mind when you think of mainstream superheroes, but the DC Universe—and comics as a medium—wouldn’t be the same without him. Debuting 50 years ...

Last week, Bleeding Cool posted about a new Big Book coming from DC Comics, Swamp Thing by Rick Veitch Book One: Wild Things for the 20th of August, 2024. Rick Veitch also posted about it, but ...

Swamp Thing, like most franchise comic series, has a somewhat long, tenuous history. Created in 1972 by Len Wein and Berni Wrightson, Swamp Thing began as the story of Alec Holland, a young botanist ...

Swamp Thing's origin was slightly altered when he got his own title in 1972. In the 1970's, Scientist Alec Holland (working on a secret restorative formula in the Louisiana swamps that can "make ...