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Swamp Thing # 120 1992 Lady Jane Origin pg 19 by Scot Eaton & Kim DeMulder

Artists: Scot Eaton (Penciller) , Kim DeMulder (Inker) , John Castanza (Letterer) , Nancy Collins (Writer)

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Title:	Swamp Thing # 120 1992 Lady Jane Origin pg 19 by Scot Eaton & Kim DeMulder
Artist:	Scot Eaton (Penciller)
Artist:	Kim DeMulder (Inker)
Artist:	John Castanza (Letterer)
Artist:	Nancy Collins (Writer)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Interior Page
For Sale Status:	NFS
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Swamp Thing # 120 June 1992 "Lady Jane" page 19
Inks over pencil on DC Comics art board
Writer: Nancy A. Collins
Letters: John Costanza
Pencils: Scot Eaton
Inks: Kim DeMulder

Abigail Holland argues with her husband, the Swamp Thing. She is unhappy with the elemental, Lady Jane, being nanny to their child. He reminds her that they cannot handle raising her on their own, but Abby takes that to mean that she cannot take care of her own daughter as well as an emissary from the Parliament of Trees could.

Abby is worn down because her daughter was kidnapped by a murderer and then the first person to comfort her was an elemental and not her own mother. Swamp Thing explains that Tefé is not a normal child, and needs to be taught how to use her powers properly. His suggestion that Tefé has taken an immediate liking to Lady Jane merely drives Abby into even greater fury.

Frustrated, Swamp Thing drags her outside, to the front yard where Lady Jane is playing with the Tefé. He pulls a bud from the lady elemental's back and shoves it into Abby's mouth. Immediately, Abby experiences a hallucinogenic understanding of Lady Jane's life.

Flashback: South Yorkshire, England, 1851

Alicia Huston is pregnant, and married to a wealthy man named Aleister. They live in a lavish country home in Yorkshire and already have a young daughter named Ruth. Through a series of poor investments however, Aleister has lost his fortune and is now forced to sell their home.

Alicia, Aleister and Ruth move into a flophouse in Sheffield. Aleister works for twelve hours 7 days a week for sixpence per hour. They live next door to Emma Wesley who has several children of her own. Alicia and Emma become fast friends, but a drunken Aleister is resentful of the time she spends away from home.

Emma helps Alicia to deliver her second child; a boy. Aleister is pleased, and names him Albert after the prince. To celebrate, Aleister goes to a bar with some friends before work. Unfortunately, he is in no condition to work and due to his own folly he ends up spilling a vat of molten steel on himself, resulting in a horrible agonizing death.

Alicia promises herself she will not cry for him, and takes work with Emma at the textile factory. Though the hours are long, she manages to keep a roof over her small family's heads. While she's working, she is forced to leave her children with Emma's eldest, Miriam, who is still too young to be truly responsible.

The foreman of the mill, Osgood Proctor, takes an interest in Alicia and offers her a better job as his secretary, which pays much better and has shorter hours. Unfortunately, it comes with the unpleasant drawback that she is required to giving in to her boss' affections. She tells herself that it is a small price to pay in order to feed her children.

Alicia's luck took a turn for the worse however, when she discovers that she has become pregnant with a third child fathered by Osgood Proctor. She approaches her boss to see what he will do for her, but he dismisses Alicia and puts her on the factory floor to work as she had before.

Alicia, overcome with grief, and rather than put her eldest daughter to work, she decides at Emma's urging to seek out an old crone for an abortion.

The following day, Alicia returns to work at the mill with Emma. While having a conversation, Emma's arm is caught in the machinery and savagely chewed away. Alicia tries to help, but Proctor forces everyone to return to work as if nothing ever happened. Emma bleeds to death, and her body is wrapped in a tarp and discarded like garbage.

Compounding the tragedy of Alicia's life even further, she returns home to find that her house is now engulfed in flames. She races towards the burning building, desperate to save her doomed children, but the flames consume her as well. Burning, she throws herself into the River Don, where the plants matter begins merging with her once-human form - the necessary factors in the birth of a new plant elemental.

At the textile mill, a child worker glances sadly at the machine which took Emma's life. Proctor reminds her that idle hands are the devil's helpmates. Suddenly, the fibers in one of the milling machines weave themselves into a noose which loops around Proctor's neck, and yanks him into the machine where he is ground to pulp.

The mill fills with flowers from the textile fibres, and the women inside stampede out, knocking the child to the ground. The mill catches fire, and from out of the smoke and fire steps Alicia, now a plant elemental. She rescues the girl.

As an elemental, she senses that the pattern that made up her life was trivial compared to what she sees in The Green. She has been chosen to protect The Green through this budding industrial age.

Coming out of her reverie, Abby instantly regrets her feelings, and rushes into Lady Jane's arms, apologizing. Lady Jane forgives her, because they are not so different.

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