The Swamp Thing #8 Cover

Really awesome cover. Love how Swamp Thing looks in that tree. Congrats!

I was absolutely transfixed when I got to see this in person last month. Stunning work by Mike Perkins perfectly matching the ethereal mood we've all come to love about Swampy.

Tremendous cover / the struggle is very real - excited to see the rest!

I'm in good company owning a complete issue from this run and even from the same 3 issue arc! May need your trade dress overlay skills eventually on the cover and word balloons ;-) 

Any time buddy! 

Sure, most people would prefer a standard, large as possible image of Swamp Thing coming towards you. That's the type of content that most collectors prefer. But what this cover may lack in mass appeal, is more than made up for from an artistic standpoint, as we're instead treated to a much more graphic representation of the character, more akin to a fine arts piece than a comic book illustration.

The overall concept and "double image" design is really quite brilliant, where we see the little Swamp Thing figure melded into the tree (screaming in pain?), growing outwardly along with it, but as you continue to stare at it, you then suddenly see there's also a large Swamp Thing face formed in the trunk of the tree. That is REALLY superb!

wow that is awesome. I am surprise Mike didn't go crazy from all the detail he put into that swamp tree.

This cover is horror at its finest. Congrats.

Wrightson is the roots. Perkins is the fruits.

Spectacular cover!  Congrats on this and all the other pieces you got from this amazing series!

 Very cool and captivating cover, congrats Kavi!

I don't want to lose
This Swamp Thing
That I've got 'cause if I do
I will surely, surely lose what's bought

'Cause this art's better
Than any art I know
It's Mike's cover inking
The swamp you have is frightening
I better wash, on wood, Kavi

That is freaky awesome!

Wow!

Wow, that is some serious inking!

Creepy cover. Love the slightly tilted camera angle.

 Now that would make a stunning coffee table.

Well, I just got my ink fix for me to head in to the weekend. 

I'm sure the scans don't do it justice. Great acquisition Kavi!

Pareidolia is one of my favorite subjects to scope in art of any kind but expecially comics. In the Pacific NW where I'm from, we have a thing for trees. We see them as very much alive, as individuals, etc. This might be one of my all-time favorite Swamp Thing covers BECAUSE it doesnt have a huge, battle-action shot of our protagonist. It is truly an image that draws you in closer and closer until the inkwash sticks to your eyeballs like sap and you can't unsee it's haunting secrets. 

Pareidolia is a great and rarely used word, Justin, kudos! However, unless I've been wrong all these years, I believe the word is used to describe the act of seeing things/images (usually in art) that aren't actually there. In other words, the artist drew one thing, but because of how the paint came off the brush (or in this case, ink), some of the shapes coalesce and can appear to form something recognizable like a face, an animal, etc. But in this case, Mike intentionally drew it so that you see 2 different Swamp Thing images.

By the way, that in the Pacific NW people have a thing for trees and see them as individuals, is very cool. The ARE living things, after all, and explains why so many people are understandably against deforestation.

Holy crap, he absolutely killed this. The details on this are amazing. Congrats!

BEAUTIFUL cover, Kavi!  Love the "double image", of course, but also how the black shadow patches (which are more anatomically accurate as eyes, as opposed to Swampy's "hands", as colored on the published cover?) are a more dire, skull-like pair of eyes to be an even taller and more imposing skull overlooking the proceedings.  Simply superb, awesome image.  Congrats on getting a full issue from this modern classic, and I can't wait to see the rest of the pages!

So impressive.  Must be a sight in person!  Perspective choice is perfect too, to highlight the grandeur of the tree and scene.  Congrats!

Wowza! What a surprising Swamp Thing cover by Mike Perkins! At first, I didn't get it--What's this cover with just a tree? Then, like one of those optical illusions where you don't see the picture at first and then it hits you like a ton of bricks, I saw it--The Swamp Thing trapped inside the tree, and he's screaming! It's one of those things you can't unsee once you've seen it.

Swamp Thing blends in so well here in his environment ! Swamp thing is one of my favorite  comic book characters,congrats!

This is soooooo cool!!!