Ooooh, VHS - weird cover of the week #8

I always enjoy the subtle cutural changes to movie posters and box art ...this is a fun one.

That weedy-red-eyed graphic along the top is exactly what I mean, and man - Swampy's looking pretty feisty - I suspect it's the RED dress getting him all worked up..

I watched this again the other night - it's such an earnest little movie.
Good memories, that's for sure(and it was the nudity-laced "Adrienne Barbeau is awesome" edition).

A.

Weird Cover of the Week #7

Late again..
..tsk tsk..

Here's a nice John Tottleben cover from later in the second series - feels like Lovecraft meets Giger meets Cronenberg a la DC comics - Beautiful work.

The Bissette/Tottleben team excelled at emotional faces, and Swamp Thing's is a weird one for sure, but they imbued so much humanity in a character who'd recently lost his - I think their attention to detail was a huge part of the success of the book in the 80's - Like a good film, you can "read" just the pictures and still "get it".








This being said, I'd lost my connection to the book by #98, but I suspect I'll ultimately pick up everything from both the 1st and 2nd series - then weed through for the worthwhile stuff, like this cover.

ST + AA = ♥

Abigail Arcane - Swampy's true love..
Annnd interesting that his Big Baddie starts out in the same issue as his Lois Lane - #2 of the first series. We'll see a lot of them over the years - all the way up 'til now, and those, kiddies, are the classic tenets of the superhero - of just about any hero..

The good, the true love ..and the truly bad - Perfecto, I says.

I did not know Swampy was Spanish..

http://dearunclecreepy.blogspot.com/2009/03/kick-ass-spanish-bootleg-swamp-thing.html
Check this out...