Welcome to the first installment of the Collected Editions & Classic Comics Book Club! And after a week of nominations and voting the topic of the month is...
Swamp Thing: Anatomy Lesson
Written by Alan Moore
Art by Steve Bissette
DC, 1984
Alan Moore may not have created Swamp Thing, but his run on Swamp Thring that ran through #20-64 is considered by many to be THE definitive run and as you'll likely see when we all begin reading and talking about #20-27 I think you'll see that superlitive is given with good reason.
To start things off I ask this simple question: Did anyone here pick this up off the rack when it was originally published back in 1984?
I ask because this book predates my birth by two years, and by the time I started really reading comics in earnest in the late 90's it was already considered a legendary run...but with the changes it made to Swamp Thing's origin I really wonder how it was recieved when it first came out. Changes to established character's origins these days are serious hot button issues that really bring out reader's passions, was it the same back in 1984?
Were there really big Swamp Thing fans back then who felt betrayed by Moore?