Wheeler is getting rather predictable. As far as Abby and Alec go–you know, Swamp Thing’s main characters–he has no idea what he’s doing. But he’s ambitious and enthusiastic. And well-versed in Swamp Thing. He seems to have read a lot of it; he just can’t write it.
This issue concerns the bayou reversing to how it was back in the thirties, before the oil companies, before the infrastructure, before the boob tube. Besides a terrible monologue from Abby–she’s not by herself, she’s with Alec… Wheeler just doesn’t know how to write a real conversation–and some interior monologue from Alec, Wheeler spends the whole issue with the bayou residents. Either they’re narrating or he’s writing in close third person.
The issue’s just a ghost story, which puts it in line with other Swamp Thing comics. Only Alec hasn’t got anything to do with this issue.
CREDITS
La Terre qui Disparait; writer, Doug Wheeler; penciller, Pat Broderick; inker, Alfredo Alcala; colorist, Tatjana Wood; letterer, John Costanza; editor, Karen Berger; publisher, DC Comics.
