Within twelve pages Moore has transformed Swamp Thing into a fundamentally different character.
It remains a sustained piece of poetic and compact storytelling. It’s with ‘The Anatomy Lesson’ that Moore transforms Swamp Thing into his own beast. It’s decoratively illustrated by Dan Day, and also enlightens as to the contribution made by John Totleben, as subsequent artist Steve Bisette’s style is inked in quite similar fashion. He includes a line even more prescient today noting how the phrase “national security” has so many intrusive uses. This latest reprint of Moore’s material begins with a tale omitted from previous collections, in which he deftly ties up in a single chapter the myriad strands of what had been an entertaining, if meandering run of stories by TV writer Martin Pasko.
For those unfamiliar with the character, as the title suggests, he’s a shambling muck monster, but guided by a human intelligence. When first published from 1984 Alan Moore’s take on Swamp Thing was remarkable, and such was the thought applied, most of his work on the series still is.
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