Tag: Parody

Comics Collector 7 (Spring 1985)

The great, John Nordstrom down at Rainbow Comics amassed a giant stack of comics magazines from the 70s and 80s for me to look through. I thumbed through every issue searching for Swamp Thing ads, articles and comic strip appearances. Out of the 40+ magazines, I found only one instance of Swampy.

Finding the needle in a haystack is always an exciting moment. Stumbling upon oddball illustrations and unfamiliar info, buried within an article, makes Swamp Thing research feel like an Indiana Jones adventure.

The comic strip, buried deep within the book, features Swamp Thing and Man-Thing mucking up the pages of Comics Collector. A great, obscure find for sure!

Amazing Heroes 73 (1985)

This issue of Amazing Heroes has everything you need to know about The Eternals, but, you can gather that from the cover.

What you couldn’t have known was that Swamp Thing indulges on fertilizer Bonbons!

Almost as scandalous as when Swampy dropped in on the Crisis cover. Which just happens to be in this issue of Amazing Heroes 73!

Certainly one of his smallest appearances, although there are smaller ones out there.

The Amazing Readers section of the book features work by the great, Herb Trimpe

Along with an antagonistic Darkseid

It was bound to happen, Batman

Amazing Heroes 75 (1985)

My amazing morning of Amazing Heroes magazine rolls on with more Swamp Thing sightings!

The UK’s renowned Eagle Awards were good to Swamp Thing ’85 and this issue feature’s DC’s Eagle Awards winners along with a fun Swamp Thing sighting!

This isn’t the first time Axel Pressbutton has tried to get the drop on Swamp Thing. Two years later, Axel will take a slice out of Swampy in Comics Buyer’s Guide 687 from January 16, 1987

DC’s Eagle Awards! Swamp Thing and the creative team did quite well.

The letters page features more hilarity.
Firestorm is up to his old tricks, congenial as always.

GQ (July 2016)

Has RootsOfTheSwampThing.com finally gone off the deep end?

I have an issue of Cosmopolitan magazine in my collection because it features a Swamp a Thing sighting (I surely did not foresee that ever happening). Now I’ve added GQ to the list of screwball magazines I never read but must have due to the big green guy being ever-present.

I was not aware that GQ contained a decent amount of nudity in their books; although, the cover should have tipped me off. Again, I only bought this for the pictures… I mean articles… I mean Swamp Thing!!

Swamp Thing made his way into The Best F*cking Movies Ever article.
What else would he be doing in here?

A sub-section to the article celebrates movies that feature sex with plants and animals

… RootsOfTheSwampThing.com may seem like it’s scraping the bottom of the barrel to find every single Swamp Thing appearance and you may be correct.

Swamp Thing’s got… wood
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Fearless Dawn 1 (2016)

While assisting with the orders for new comic book day, I thumbed through some books that I’d typically pass on. I indeed judge comics by their cover, especially if a scantily clad woman dons said cover. I’m not keen on women being objectified and sex is an extremely lazy way to sell comics but I step down from the soap box. I bought Fearless Dawn because my preternatural ability to sniff out oddball Swamp Thing sightings paid off . I just happened to flip through the last few pages and came across this great Swamp Thing parody.

Swamp Dog looks awesome! The roots, flowers and his patented Swamp Thing nose/mouth shape are spot on.

What’s the deal with Swamp Dog?
Swamp Dog didn’t actually play a role in the story. Writer and artist Steve Mannion included the Swamp Dog illustration in the back of the book, as a portfolio/sketch page. A giant out-of-control dog did play a role in the story, but sadly, never turned into Swamp Dog.

…everywhere he roams, mayhem and destruction.

The gigantic dog eludes Dawn in the Swamp. In a perfect world, this would be the point in the story where the giant dog goes to school, trains to be a scientist, marries his college sweetheart (who of course would be a scientist dog named Linda) and begins his life’s work on a biorestorative formula only to have it stolen by thugs who leave him for dead, deep in the swamps of Louisiana and buried within this lengthy run on sentence. But like I said before, that doesn’t happen in this story.

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Wasteland 18 (1989)
The Casebook of the Dead Detective: “86”

I love using instagram as a reference tool and as a platform to share my ST collection. If I don’t have time to write a post on this website I’ll usually take a few quick photos and share items on instagram. I have an awesome group of followers and have found new friends that share my passion for Swampy and fandom. Fellow Swamp Thing fan and instagram friend, RJ found this Swampy parody appearance in Wasteland 18. I knew Swampy showed up in Wasteland 5 but this issue was news to me!

Needless to say, John and Del are up to their old tricks in this issue of Wasteland. As you can imagine, psychedelic tubers are involved.

Del Close points out, “haven’t we passed this way before?”. They sure have.
In Wasteland #5 Del and John frantically try to write a new story for a quickly approaching deadline. The two wind up falling into a psychedelic dreamland much like the one in this issue.

It looks like the gang is all here; most importantly, Swamp Thing!

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Chip N Dale Rescue Rangers #18 (1990)

I haven’t forgotten to write a post regarding Swamp Thing #6 (series 6) and how it concluded the six issue mini-series quite well. I’m hoping to write about the final issue this weekend. I plan to reread the six books in one sitting to get a better feel for the stories’ pacing. In the meantime…

This great issue of Chip N Dale Rescue Rangers features a fun Swamp Thing parody! Fellow Swamp Thing fan, Paul came across this book and graciously sent it to me. I was pleasantly surprised to receive the book. I was a big fan of the Rescue Rangers animated series.

The story is reminiscent of Swamp Thing #4 Monster on the Moors


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2000 AD 1327 (2003)

This issue of 2000 AD features the Swamp Thing parody known as Grassface! Grassface appeared in a few Bec and Kawl stories in the mid 2000s.

Bec and Kawl
Enlightenment
by Simon Spurrier and Steve Roberts

Bec and Kawl summon the “dark and pagan dieti” Grassface.

Bec wants to understand the meaning of the universe but will have to settle for a story.

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Megaton Man 5 (1985)

Megaton Man 5, like Megaton Man 6, features a Swamp Thing parody/reference. Donald Simpson’s cover is reminiscent of House of Secrets 92, the book that started it all for Swamp Thing.

Cerebus 107 (1988)
Walking on the Moon

Been wondering what happened to Fred and Ethel? Well, this issue of Cerebus fills us in on where the conjoined Swamp Thing/Man Thing lovers have gone to.

Did you forget or don’t have a clue who Fred and Ethel are? Here are some other appearances I posted a little while back.
Cerebus 25
Cerebus 82
Cerebus 105 & 106

Another beautiful, surreal book by Sim and Gerhard.

Fred and Ethel: The Conclusion


“accelerating… until they burn up from the friction and fall, as a light sprinkling of ash…” Continue reading “Cerebus 107” →