There have been a few posts, inspired by the recent Entertainment Weekly article saying which comic snagged us as a kid.
Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing is the one that grabbed me.
Particularly, this issue:
There I was, a kid who rode his bike to the 7-11 and the local five and dime to get hsi comics when Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing finds me. It was just there, this mad fucking comic book, on the 7-11 shelves with all of the other comics. Y’see, Swamp Thing’s girlfriend had been arrested in Gotham City because someone had published pictures of her having sex with Swamp Thing.
I shit you not.
So, Swamp Thing, full of his own newfound nature god powers, hits Batman’s city with his green hammer until it coughs up his girlfriend. Meanwhile, the U.S. government is paying Lex Luthor to figure out a way to destroy the Swamp Thing. Luthor drafts up a way to kill Swamp Thing in nine minutes and warns them to never use the world -invulnerable- ever again.
I couldn’t believe what I was reading. I couldn’t believe I was allowed to read this shit. I had no idea I was reading the comics that would pave the way for Vertigo and Gaiman’s Sandman.
Comic books were something I liked and sought out but it was those Swamp Thing issues that really put four colors into my blood.
It was amazing.
How about you?
Hooked!
As blasphemous as this sounds, I never really liked comics much at all. I recall being a little kid, picking up a copy of some x-men something or other, reading through it excitedly and thinking… that’s it? Where’s it start? What’s the end? What a ripoff! Even as a little kid, I could do the math: 2-3 issue of a comic book are shorter, less-engrossing, less-imaginative (to me), and more expensive than a really good book.
It wasn’t until I got into the stories of Harlan Ellison that I liked comics, at which time I started reading his Dream Corridor series. That eventually led me to read Transmetropolitan, Negative Burn, and Broken Heroes. Then I got into web comics, and haven’t really looked back much ever since.
In some ways, I’m jealous of kids who got into them more than I did.
Could never have guessed that you’d read Transmetropolitan…
O RLY? =)
O RLY? =)
O RLY? =)
Could never have guessed that you’d read Transmetropolitan…
Could never have guessed that you’d read Transmetropolitan…
As blasphemous as this sounds, I never really liked comics much at all. I recall being a little kid, picking up a copy of some x-men something or other, reading through it excitedly and thinking… that’s it? Where’s it start? What’s the end? What a ripoff! Even as a little kid, I could do the math: 2-3 issue of a comic book are shorter, less-engrossing, less-imaginative (to me), and more expensive than a really good book.
It wasn’t until I got into the stories of Harlan Ellison that I liked comics, at which time I started reading his Dream Corridor series. That eventually led me to read Transmetropolitan, Negative Burn, and Broken Heroes. Then I got into web comics, and haven’t really looked back much ever since.
In some ways, I’m jealous of kids who got into them more than I did.
As blasphemous as this sounds, I never really liked comics much at all. I recall being a little kid, picking up a copy of some x-men something or other, reading through it excitedly and thinking… that’s it? Where’s it start? What’s the end? What a ripoff! Even as a little kid, I could do the math: 2-3 issue of a comic book are shorter, less-engrossing, less-imaginative (to me), and more expensive than a really good book.
It wasn’t until I got into the stories of Harlan Ellison that I liked comics, at which time I started reading his Dream Corridor series. That eventually led me to read Transmetropolitan, Negative Burn, and Broken Heroes. Then I got into web comics, and haven’t really looked back much ever since.
In some ways, I’m jealous of kids who got into them more than I did.
Very cool. My own moment of comic satori is not so easy to pinpoint. I mean, I started reading comics when I was 3 (and books came soon after). I read everything from Spiderman to Roy of the Rovers. I have a clearer memory of some of the early British weeklies than I do American comics because of my parents’ bicontinental wanderings. Valiant had a big effect on me, as did a lot of the Gold Key stuff.
One book that stands out as a pivot is Amazing Spider-Man #134. I was just out of second grade and my cousin and I would walk down to the corner store and read comics. I remember being really excited about a new supervillain called The Tarantula, because I had a spider fetish at the time. And. . . I was horribly disappointed! After reading that comic, I said to myself “I could do better than that!” and went home and scribbled something out. That was one of the first moments when I really knew that I wanted to be a writer.
Very cool. My own moment of comic satori is not so easy to pinpoint. I mean, I started reading comics when I was 3 (and books came soon after). I read everything from Spiderman to Roy of the Rovers. I have a clearer memory of some of the early British weeklies than I do American comics because of my parents’ bicontinental wanderings. Valiant had a big effect on me, as did a lot of the Gold Key stuff.
One book that stands out as a pivot is Amazing Spider-Man #134. I was just out of second grade and my cousin and I would walk down to the corner store and read comics. I remember being really excited about a new supervillain called The Tarantula, because I had a spider fetish at the time. And. . . I was horribly disappointed! After reading that comic, I said to myself “I could do better than that!” and went home and scribbled something out. That was one of the first moments when I really knew that I wanted to be a writer.
Very cool. My own moment of comic satori is not so easy to pinpoint. I mean, I started reading comics when I was 3 (and books came soon after). I read everything from Spiderman to Roy of the Rovers. I have a clearer memory of some of the early British weeklies than I do American comics because of my parents’ bicontinental wanderings. Valiant had a big effect on me, as did a lot of the Gold Key stuff.
One book that stands out as a pivot is Amazing Spider-Man #134. I was just out of second grade and my cousin and I would walk down to the corner store and read comics. I remember being really excited about a new supervillain called The Tarantula, because I had a spider fetish at the time. And. . . I was horribly disappointed! After reading that comic, I said to myself “I could do better than that!” and went home and scribbled something out. That was one of the first moments when I really knew that I wanted to be a writer.
Fantastic book!
Fantastic book!
Fantastic book!
While I find it totally unreadable now, I think for me it was Spawn. Just visually he was awesome and he was all the time slaughtering people all bloodylike. Also it involved a clown.
My interests have stayed about the same.
Mutant Massacre
I bought a trade paperback of the mutant massacre and it really didn’t hold up. The writing was awful.
I think it was the bloodshed and pain that roped us in.
Thor’s arm got broken, Colossus was stuck in his metal form, Nightcrawler was in a coma, Kitty Pride was stuck ghosted and Storm was trying to lead the team without powers.
But as a text, it just didn’t hold up.
Re: Mutant Massacre
X-Men didn’t really do it for me, though I think one of the first comics I ever read was the whole Brood story arc. I remember Colossus fighting a monster called Brickbat. And lots of splattered blood.
Re: Mutant Massacre
X-Men didn’t really do it for me, though I think one of the first comics I ever read was the whole Brood story arc. I remember Colossus fighting a monster called Brickbat. And lots of splattered blood.
Re: Mutant Massacre
X-Men didn’t really do it for me, though I think one of the first comics I ever read was the whole Brood story arc. I remember Colossus fighting a monster called Brickbat. And lots of splattered blood.
Re: Mutant Massacre
Yeah, but that was the era. I can’t put my finger on it, really, but there was that, and some other X-stuff around then, and ultimately the X-Men: Heroes for Hope one-shot issue which had the X-Men fighting famine in Ethiopia.
The splash page where Rogue stood there with the powers of the ENTIRE X-Men team all absorbed that she took from them while they slept just really did it for me, for some reason.
But I didn’t really stick with the comics, not a lot, though I got really interested in the Elementals for a while, and then Grant Morrison’s run on Doom Patrol (I own all of it as individual issues).
Spotty, spotty. Even today I mainly read TPBs that Rob lends me.
Re: Mutant Massacre
Yeah, but that was the era. I can’t put my finger on it, really, but there was that, and some other X-stuff around then, and ultimately the X-Men: Heroes for Hope one-shot issue which had the X-Men fighting famine in Ethiopia.
The splash page where Rogue stood there with the powers of the ENTIRE X-Men team all absorbed that she took from them while they slept just really did it for me, for some reason.
But I didn’t really stick with the comics, not a lot, though I got really interested in the Elementals for a while, and then Grant Morrison’s run on Doom Patrol (I own all of it as individual issues).
Spotty, spotty. Even today I mainly read TPBs that Rob lends me.
Re: Mutant Massacre
Yeah, but that was the era. I can’t put my finger on it, really, but there was that, and some other X-stuff around then, and ultimately the X-Men: Heroes for Hope one-shot issue which had the X-Men fighting famine in Ethiopia.
The splash page where Rogue stood there with the powers of the ENTIRE X-Men team all absorbed that she took from them while they slept just really did it for me, for some reason.
But I didn’t really stick with the comics, not a lot, though I got really interested in the Elementals for a while, and then Grant Morrison’s run on Doom Patrol (I own all of it as individual issues).
Spotty, spotty. Even today I mainly read TPBs that Rob lends me.
Mutant Massacre
I bought a trade paperback of the mutant massacre and it really didn’t hold up. The writing was awful.
I think it was the bloodshed and pain that roped us in.
Thor’s arm got broken, Colossus was stuck in his metal form, Nightcrawler was in a coma, Kitty Pride was stuck ghosted and Storm was trying to lead the team without powers.
But as a text, it just didn’t hold up.
Mutant Massacre
I bought a trade paperback of the mutant massacre and it really didn’t hold up. The writing was awful.
I think it was the bloodshed and pain that roped us in.
Thor’s arm got broken, Colossus was stuck in his metal form, Nightcrawler was in a coma, Kitty Pride was stuck ghosted and Storm was trying to lead the team without powers.
But as a text, it just didn’t hold up.
While I find it totally unreadable now, I think for me it was Spawn. Just visually he was awesome and he was all the time slaughtering people all bloodylike. Also it involved a clown.
My interests have stayed about the same.
While I find it totally unreadable now, I think for me it was Spawn. Just visually he was awesome and he was all the time slaughtering people all bloodylike. Also it involved a clown.
My interests have stayed about the same.
I always liked the occasional Superman or X-men issue that I could wheedle out of my parents.
When I got a job, I started buying some comics regularly; I liked Green Lantern and Wolverine… the common stuff. But I can’t think of any one comic that made me a consistent reader, although I remember being quite moved by the special “Newstime” issue that had the Death of Superman. But I had been reading for a while by then.
So I guess while I can’t really say what hooked me, but I’ll tell you what made me finally decide to take the genre more seriously. Someone recommended Sandman to me, and I read the first books and was like “Okay, this is pretty good.” Then came “Season of Mists” and I was suddenly going “this should be taught in classrooms.”
Not quite what you asked, but close.
I always liked the occasional Superman or X-men issue that I could wheedle out of my parents.
When I got a job, I started buying some comics regularly; I liked Green Lantern and Wolverine… the common stuff. But I can’t think of any one comic that made me a consistent reader, although I remember being quite moved by the special “Newstime” issue that had the Death of Superman. But I had been reading for a while by then.
So I guess while I can’t really say what hooked me, but I’ll tell you what made me finally decide to take the genre more seriously. Someone recommended Sandman to me, and I read the first books and was like “Okay, this is pretty good.” Then came “Season of Mists” and I was suddenly going “this should be taught in classrooms.”
Not quite what you asked, but close.
I always liked the occasional Superman or X-men issue that I could wheedle out of my parents.
When I got a job, I started buying some comics regularly; I liked Green Lantern and Wolverine… the common stuff. But I can’t think of any one comic that made me a consistent reader, although I remember being quite moved by the special “Newstime” issue that had the Death of Superman. But I had been reading for a while by then.
So I guess while I can’t really say what hooked me, but I’ll tell you what made me finally decide to take the genre more seriously. Someone recommended Sandman to me, and I read the first books and was like “Okay, this is pretty good.” Then came “Season of Mists” and I was suddenly going “this should be taught in classrooms.”
Not quite what you asked, but close.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rot_lop_fan#Rot_Lop_Fan
I remember the GL annual he was in distinctly, which is a big deal for me because my memory is crap. I had no idea that it was an Alan Moore story until about 6 months ago. I remember my parents buying the comic for me at the gift shop of a motel we were staying in and after one of my many re-readings i saw a mother pull her face-down daughter from the motel pool and stick her finger down the girls throat to choke up the water.
Yeah, I still have that annual, tucked away in my comics box. Such great writing and ideas.
Although your memory definitely has something more to it
.
That was the issue with a bunch of convicts on Oa telling stories in the Green Lantern’s prison, yes?
Yeah, great plot device. Sinestro is trying to entreat some great entity to free him, as I recall. Just top-notch writing!
Yeah, great plot device. Sinestro is trying to entreat some great entity to free him, as I recall. Just top-notch writing!
Yeah, great plot device. Sinestro is trying to entreat some great entity to free him, as I recall. Just top-notch writing!
IIRC it is also the annual with a sequence with no dialog. Some man in a desert finds a GL ring and tries to use it to get water and gets thwarted by yellow sand, or yellow cacti. He finally just uses the ring to make a drink made of green energy and it tastes bad so he tosses the ring and leaves.
IIRC it is also the annual with a sequence with no dialog. Some man in a desert finds a GL ring and tries to use it to get water and gets thwarted by yellow sand, or yellow cacti. He finally just uses the ring to make a drink made of green energy and it tastes bad so he tosses the ring and leaves.
IIRC it is also the annual with a sequence with no dialog. Some man in a desert finds a GL ring and tries to use it to get water and gets thwarted by yellow sand, or yellow cacti. He finally just uses the ring to make a drink made of green energy and it tastes bad so he tosses the ring and leaves.
That was the issue with a bunch of convicts on Oa telling stories in the Green Lantern’s prison, yes?
That was the issue with a bunch of convicts on Oa telling stories in the Green Lantern’s prison, yes?
Yeah, I still have that annual, tucked away in my comics box. Such great writing and ideas.
Although your memory definitely has something more to it
.
Yeah, I still have that annual, tucked away in my comics box. Such great writing and ideas.
Although your memory definitely has something more to it
.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rot_lop_fan#Rot_Lop_Fan
I remember the GL annual he was in distinctly, which is a big deal for me because my memory is crap. I had no idea that it was an Alan Moore story until about 6 months ago. I remember my parents buying the comic for me at the gift shop of a motel we were staying in and after one of my many re-readings i saw a mother pull her face-down daughter from the motel pool and stick her finger down the girls throat to choke up the water.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rot_lop_fan#Rot_Lop_Fan
I remember the GL annual he was in distinctly, which is a big deal for me because my memory is crap. I had no idea that it was an Alan Moore story until about 6 months ago. I remember my parents buying the comic for me at the gift shop of a motel we were staying in and after one of my many re-readings i saw a mother pull her face-down daughter from the motel pool and stick her finger down the girls throat to choke up the water.
Turok, Son of Stone. The original Dell comics, not the whole “robo-raptors and cadillacs” that you saw in the 90s. Nothing beats two regular native guys trying to survive in a Lost World filled with dinos and crazy cave men.
My dad had a big box of old, yellowed comics full of Turoks and campy Batmans and a bunch of Twilight Zone/Outer Limits/Weird Tales comics from the 60′s and 70′s. I never got into the four-color super hero comics. It was all dinosaurs, bows & arrows and thrilling tales to shock, astound and horrify.
When I found that Turok cover gallery I could instantly smell those old comics. Maybe I’ll go up to my study and reread some tonight.
Turok, Son of Stone. The original Dell comics, not the whole “robo-raptors and cadillacs” that you saw in the 90s. Nothing beats two regular native guys trying to survive in a Lost World filled with dinos and crazy cave men.
My dad had a big box of old, yellowed comics full of Turoks and campy Batmans and a bunch of Twilight Zone/Outer Limits/Weird Tales comics from the 60′s and 70′s. I never got into the four-color super hero comics. It was all dinosaurs, bows & arrows and thrilling tales to shock, astound and horrify.
When I found that Turok cover gallery I could instantly smell those old comics. Maybe I’ll go up to my study and reread some tonight.
Turok, Son of Stone. The original Dell comics, not the whole “robo-raptors and cadillacs” that you saw in the 90s. Nothing beats two regular native guys trying to survive in a Lost World filled with dinos and crazy cave men.
My dad had a big box of old, yellowed comics full of Turoks and campy Batmans and a bunch of Twilight Zone/Outer Limits/Weird Tales comics from the 60′s and 70′s. I never got into the four-color super hero comics. It was all dinosaurs, bows & arrows and thrilling tales to shock, astound and horrify.
When I found that Turok cover gallery I could instantly smell those old comics. Maybe I’ll go up to my study and reread some tonight.
Amazing Spider-Man 300
Captain America #401
It’s after Galactic Storm (same time as Desert Storm, coincidence?). Steve Rodgers sits around in a bar with Tony Stark, the former alcoholic. Tony has a Diet Coke. They talk about the bad shit that went down in the war and wonder how the Avengers, this great organization that they built together, got to the point that it is, when it’s large and unwieldy and kinda falling apart. I was 13 or something, but I could totally feel what it was like for these adult men to deal with real, serious issues with no easy answers and what it was like to have old friends that you were really angry at for disappointing you.
Captain America #401
It’s after Galactic Storm (same time as Desert Storm, coincidence?). Steve Rodgers sits around in a bar with Tony Stark, the former alcoholic. Tony has a Diet Coke. They talk about the bad shit that went down in the war and wonder how the Avengers, this great organization that they built together, got to the point that it is, when it’s large and unwieldy and kinda falling apart. I was 13 or something, but I could totally feel what it was like for these adult men to deal with real, serious issues with no easy answers and what it was like to have old friends that you were really angry at for disappointing you.
Captain America #401
It’s after Galactic Storm (same time as Desert Storm, coincidence?). Steve Rodgers sits around in a bar with Tony Stark, the former alcoholic. Tony has a Diet Coke. They talk about the bad shit that went down in the war and wonder how the Avengers, this great organization that they built together, got to the point that it is, when it’s large and unwieldy and kinda falling apart. I was 13 or something, but I could totally feel what it was like for these adult men to deal with real, serious issues with no easy answers and what it was like to have old friends that you were really angry at for disappointing you.
Amazing Spider-Man 300
Amazing Spider-Man 300
I got my hands on a Savage Sword of Conan #1 when I was ten; it had been coming out for a few years and cost me a few weeks of allowance to pick it up. I was thrilled by the stories and artwork inside in part, I’m sure, by the sense that it was a bit too mature for me and I was getting away with something by reading it. A couple years later I really got into Arak, Son of Thunder – swords and sorcery with a splash of pseudo-history and mythology. I trace part of my later decision to become a history major back to those early comics. Conan too, for the map of Hyboria and the articles in SSoC that discussed the “history” of R.E.H.’s world.
There are interviews with Howard saying something about how his fantasy stories are often him having fun with history.
I totally missed the Conan comics. Not sure how that is possible given my dad’s love of the genre.
There are interviews with Howard saying something about how his fantasy stories are often him having fun with history.
I totally missed the Conan comics. Not sure how that is possible given my dad’s love of the genre.
There are interviews with Howard saying something about how his fantasy stories are often him having fun with history.
I totally missed the Conan comics. Not sure how that is possible given my dad’s love of the genre.
I got my hands on a Savage Sword of Conan #1 when I was ten; it had been coming out for a few years and cost me a few weeks of allowance to pick it up. I was thrilled by the stories and artwork inside in part, I’m sure, by the sense that it was a bit too mature for me and I was getting away with something by reading it. A couple years later I really got into Arak, Son of Thunder – swords and sorcery with a splash of pseudo-history and mythology. I trace part of my later decision to become a history major back to those early comics. Conan too, for the map of Hyboria and the articles in SSoC that discussed the “history” of R.E.H.’s world.
I got my hands on a Savage Sword of Conan #1 when I was ten; it had been coming out for a few years and cost me a few weeks of allowance to pick it up. I was thrilled by the stories and artwork inside in part, I’m sure, by the sense that it was a bit too mature for me and I was getting away with something by reading it. A couple years later I really got into Arak, Son of Thunder – swords and sorcery with a splash of pseudo-history and mythology. I trace part of my later decision to become a history major back to those early comics. Conan too, for the map of Hyboria and the articles in SSoC that discussed the “history” of R.E.H.’s world.
<>New Mutants #1<>
later
Tom
I can’t remember when I started reading them, I remember reading Impulse, which was an off shoot of Flash, but I think I really enjoyed comics with “Elf Quest”(which I don’t don’t if I would read now) and the first “Books of Magic”. The water colors in that 1st comic are amazing. It also sparked my love for Charles Vess’ art work.
Now I’m chewing through Fables and loving it.
But before any of that it was Catwoman, any Batman comic with Catwoman I would get a hold of.
I can’t remember when I started reading them, I remember reading Impulse, which was an off shoot of Flash, but I think I really enjoyed comics with “Elf Quest”(which I don’t don’t if I would read now) and the first “Books of Magic”. The water colors in that 1st comic are amazing. It also sparked my love for Charles Vess’ art work.
Now I’m chewing through Fables and loving it.
But before any of that it was Catwoman, any Batman comic with Catwoman I would get a hold of.
I can’t remember when I started reading them, I remember reading Impulse, which was an off shoot of Flash, but I think I really enjoyed comics with “Elf Quest”(which I don’t don’t if I would read now) and the first “Books of Magic”. The water colors in that 1st comic are amazing. It also sparked my love for Charles Vess’ art work.
Now I’m chewing through Fables and loving it.
But before any of that it was Catwoman, any Batman comic with Catwoman I would get a hold of.
I have pretty damned fond memories of New Mutants. Especially the Demon Bear stuff with those wild Sienkiewicz covers.
I have pretty damned fond memories of New Mutants. Especially the Demon Bear stuff with those wild Sienkiewicz covers.
I have pretty damned fond memories of New Mutants. Especially the Demon Bear stuff with those wild Sienkiewicz covers.
<>New Mutants #1<>
later
Tom
<>New Mutants #1<>
later
Tom
Superboy
My mom tells me that she got me to read by buying me comics. I remember reading Daredevil, Superman, and Superboy. In particular, I remember one comic about Superboy and a young Lex Luthor origin story – for years, I was never sure whether I lost it, it got thrown away, or I dreamed it up.
It wasn’t until college that I got into comics, and most of them were non-superhero stuff. I just found the superhero genre played-out (growing up in the 80s) — at least until I read things (much later) like Watchmen, Astro City, Planetary, and Ex Machina. I tend towards TPB these days, and stuff like Sandman, Strangers in Paradise, Box Office Poison, and stuff set in the real word, comics like Persopolis, Maus, Blankets and Exit Wounds.
Superboy
My mom tells me that she got me to read by buying me comics. I remember reading Daredevil, Superman, and Superboy. In particular, I remember one comic about Superboy and a young Lex Luthor origin story – for years, I was never sure whether I lost it, it got thrown away, or I dreamed it up.
It wasn’t until college that I got into comics, and most of them were non-superhero stuff. I just found the superhero genre played-out (growing up in the 80s) — at least until I read things (much later) like Watchmen, Astro City, Planetary, and Ex Machina. I tend towards TPB these days, and stuff like Sandman, Strangers in Paradise, Box Office Poison, and stuff set in the real word, comics like Persopolis, Maus, Blankets and Exit Wounds.
Superboy
My mom tells me that she got me to read by buying me comics. I remember reading Daredevil, Superman, and Superboy. In particular, I remember one comic about Superboy and a young Lex Luthor origin story – for years, I was never sure whether I lost it, it got thrown away, or I dreamed it up.
It wasn’t until college that I got into comics, and most of them were non-superhero stuff. I just found the superhero genre played-out (growing up in the 80s) — at least until I read things (much later) like Watchmen, Astro City, Planetary, and Ex Machina. I tend towards TPB these days, and stuff like Sandman, Strangers in Paradise, Box Office Poison, and stuff set in the real word, comics like Persopolis, Maus, Blankets and Exit Wounds.
Yeah. I remember borrowing a friend’s comics back around, um, some X-Men issue or other, I think when Scott first met, um, some woman who looked like Jean Gray? Or maybe when there was this alternate world with the Sentinels that was stopped, only at the end, we find out Sentinels are being created?
Whatever, it was fun. And then, I got tired of it.
And then, years later, I got my socks knocked off because, yes, I’d grown up and all that — but so had comic books. I got loaned a huge pile of Swamp Thing issues, including the one you mentioned.
Yeah. I remember borrowing a friend’s comics back around, um, some X-Men issue or other, I think when Scott first met, um, some woman who looked like Jean Gray? Or maybe when there was this alternate world with the Sentinels that was stopped, only at the end, we find out Sentinels are being created?
Whatever, it was fun. And then, I got tired of it.
And then, years later, I got my socks knocked off because, yes, I’d grown up and all that — but so had comic books. I got loaned a huge pile of Swamp Thing issues, including the one you mentioned.
Yeah. I remember borrowing a friend’s comics back around, um, some X-Men issue or other, I think when Scott first met, um, some woman who looked like Jean Gray? Or maybe when there was this alternate world with the Sentinels that was stopped, only at the end, we find out Sentinels are being created?
Whatever, it was fun. And then, I got tired of it.
And then, years later, I got my socks knocked off because, yes, I’d grown up and all that — but so had comic books. I got loaned a huge pile of Swamp Thing issues, including the one you mentioned.