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Swamp Thing: Season One 4 p.7

Owner: Justin Topages
Artist: Mike Perkins (All)

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Title:	Swamp Thing: Season One 4 p.7
Artist:	Mike Perkins (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Splash Page
Views:	572
Likes on CAF:	11 12
Added to Site:	6/7/2021

Description

-"Tell me...Levi Kamei, what is The Green?"

-"It is...memory".

Next month marks the 50th anniversary of the debut of Swamp Thing, Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson's most famous creation in the pages of House Of Secrets. What Ram V and Mike Perkins are doing with the character is a breath of fresh air, hitting all the key points I've come to expect from reading a Swamp Thing comic. Life, death, love, transformation, existential dread and horror of course.

-"Like stories, passed on to each generation, changing them and becoming changed in turn."

This page is a wonderful tapestry of those many years, stories and adventures woven into one. Even as a long-time fan, I am far from a Swampy scholar, nonetheless I appreciate the significance of the imagery and thus am quite sure that Ram and Mike had good reasons to choose every scene depicted.

To look at this page and know Mike Perkins did all these faithful renderings by HAND is nothing short of extraordinary. The history invoked by these images is a beautiful collage-representation of the many aspects of the character that have given fans like me such a lush and fruitful tuber to sink our collective teeth into.

A very sincere and heartfelt Thank you to Mike and especially Ruben for the privilege of holding and seeing this brilliant piece in person.

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	Justin Topages ( 6 ) Premium Gallery Owner
Joined:	September 2015
Last Login:	September 2025
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Country:	UNITED STATES
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