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title: "Absolute Swamp Thing by Alan Moore Vol. 1"
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# Absolute Swamp Thing by Alan Moore Vol. 1

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Gorgeous looking book. Beautiful story!
  

*by A***N on Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2022*

Love the artwork. Of course, this is the first time I'm reading this Swamp Thing so I don't miss the original coloring. Sawn binding. Nice Eye. Worth every cent.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Absolutely beautiful
  

*by T***G on Reviewed in the United States on June 30, 2022*

Some have complained about the new coloring.I love it. The slightly oversized pages and the thick paper made my rereading of this classic so much more meaningful.I bought the original comics as they came out (and foolishly sold them on eBay several years ago). But this edition--and the other two volumes--have made my loss of the floppies much more bearable. I've really enjoyed going back into Moore's world. The art is exquisite. This is a great absolute series.If you've never read these books--do it now.

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    Absolute Disaster
  

*by D***N on Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2019*

I have to admit that DC was honest in the product description when they wrote, “brand-new coloring.” They question is, why?My review was going to be all about my love for the 1984 Alan Moore run on Swamp Thing and how it was a perfect marriage between art and writing. I bought these comics when they were first released, and they made a profound impact on me in my teenage years. I wanted to talk about how Stephen Bissette and John Totleben were perhaps the first artists where, for me, their names became synonymous with the series they worked on. I was always disappointed when an issue was released without their art, but I understood given the detail of Bissette’s penciling and Totleben’s inking. Unfortunately, DC made one disastrous decision in this Absolute Edition.I’m not one of those purists who thinks that every reprint should look exactly like the original. It makes sense that a more expensive version is going to have superior paper, printing techniques and modern tools so things are going to look different, and hopefully better. In fact, if the Absolute Edition looked like a scan of the original, I’d be complaining. The problem here is that DC looked at the colors supplied by Tatjana Wood and decided they could do better. Issue 30 opens with, “The returned man smiles” as the lips of a green skinned alien part. Wait, what? That’s supposed to be Matt Cable and in the original his skin is flesh colored. It was a great moment in the original comic but now it looks distractingly weird. It was as if DC decided that the comic was too gothic and gritty and decided to give it a more disco appearance.Scarcely a page goes by without radical color shifts. Pages that have greens and blue are now purple and grey. The last panel of issue 25 shows an image of Goya’s ‘The Sleep of Reason’ in all red. Now, it’s shades of purple. Did that improve it? Nope. Page after page is altered and the worst thing is, these new colors are more often than not, softening Totleben’s inking. His inking was sharp and frightening and now it’s soft and friendly. The monkey king was original black and white but now has shades of grey. Is he more frightening? No. Sometimes colors are added such as giving Swamp Thing an orange tongue where it was originally green. Sometimes images have a single color where there used to be multiple colors and details are lost. I know that Alan Moore gets 98% of the credit for this run but it was a collaborative effort. Tatjana Wood isn’t even given coloring credit. She’s listed as the original comic colorist, but coloring credit goes to Steve Oliff and ‘Olyoptics’. Oliff is an award winning colorist and a veteran in the industry but radically changing the colors is akin to changing Alan Moore’s text. If the recoloring improved the visuals I would be forgiving but the changes are almost always either gratuitous or make the visuals worse. BTW: Even the covers are recolored and it is just as much of a disaster. Issue 21 has Swamp Thing menacing General Sunderland as light from a window illuminates the terrified man. In the recoloring, the light seems to fall across Swamp Thing but based on where the light is coming from it doesn’t make sense and the light hits his body flat as if he were two dimensional. My assumption is that this was just a coloring screw up. Nice job.This was not the review I wanted to write. I wanted to talk about my love of Swamp Thing and how DC finally produced a high-quality compilation of one of their greatest comics ever. I often roll my eyes when reviewers nitpick details in reproductions as if they were just itching to complain. I’m sure Steve Oliff spent a lot of time on recoloring and it looks like volume 2 of Absolute Swamp Thing will be getting the same treatment. I just feel that when you have a series that comes this close to perfection that no one has a right to decide they can improve it and I would have to assume this was an editorial decision from DC.The Absolute Edition has a very neat, soft, moss like cover and some really good extras including sketches and a long, well written article by Stephen Bissette. Bissette also wrote the introduction in book 6 of the TBD but the one in the Absolute Edition is brand new. Oh, and the cheapo TPB’s used the original coloring and look better. *sigh* Maybe if enough people complain, DC will reverse course or possibly even redo the first version of the Absolute Edition. Probably not. Still, it was nice revisiting these stories and as far as I know the stories are entirely unaltered.

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