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Going Through a Swamp Thing Collection

Have a large-ish collection of Swamp Thing comics in my possession, about 140 or so comics from the 80’s and early 90’s. I was wondering if there’s anything particularly rare or valuable I should keep an eye out for? I have so much physical media already that I have to sell some of it, but I wanted to see if there’s certain comics that are worth saving (or selling at a fair price).

I’ll attach some pictures here but I don’t want to spam-post screenshots, this is just a small number of comics from the collection.

u/Livid_Importance_614 — 4 days ago

The Final Argument - Larry Schexnayder is Hooded Justice

https://open.substack.com/pub/matthew290066/p/watchmen-larry-schexnayder-is-the?r=8g065u&utm\_medium=ios

Alright ya’ll, this is it. My final post at r/alanmoore.

You will no longer hear from me after today.

The case that I have presented makes much more sense than Rolf Muller as Hooded Justice. In fact, if we believe Hollis Mason, then it is impossible for Rolf Muller to be Hooded Justice. I explain in my final argument.

Don’t let Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons fool you any longer. The gag should finally come to an end.

Cheers! I wish you all the best, genuinely!

u/EffMemes — 5 days ago
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Met David Lloyd in Greece yesterday

Great guy,also took the time to look at my own comics and say some kind words.It's a privilege to have on the seminal works of comic art with a sketch my the man,but he spelled my name wrong though,lol.I told him it's Vaggelis,with two g's,but he misspelled it one g and two l's.

u/Evangelos90 — 6 days ago

Just Finished V for Vendetta

Wow. What a novel. I'm in shock. And after recently finishing Watchmen, I might even prefer V, but definitely not by much. What are your guys' thoughts and opinions on this book? I'm still trying to unpack my emotions on it

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u/Nice-Choice324 — 6 days ago

Does anyone else feel weird about how sex is treated in Promethea?

I will start by saying I haven't yet finished reading Promethea, having just finished chapter 19, so I might not have a full picture of things yet. Does anyone else feel weird about how sex is treated in Promethea? Specifically in chapter 10 and chapter 16. Jack Faust offering to exchange magic lessons for sex felt predatory, but then chapter 10 is like "Oh no, sex with a weird old wizard is actually super great and informative! Also incredibly pleasurable! Nothing creepy about it at all!", and later chapters even mention that Sophie still hangs out with him, and considers him a friend, and I just find the whole thing super off. Then, in chapter 16, Barbara takes a break from her quest to find her husband, and has an offscreen quickie with Austin Spare. She then has some tragic bubble flashbacks about how she wasn't there for her husband when he needed her, but doesn't reflect at all about how she just took a break from her quest to find him to sleep with a guy she just met. Am I just not sex positive enough for this book? Are these events not weird to other people?

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u/ariaofgrapes — 7 days ago
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Love Moore, but it's been really cool to watch this character grow without him.

u/Most_Read8138 — 8 days ago

Moore's first use of the name Rorschach, from the Tharg's Future Shocks story Sundown (2000AD, early 1980's)

u/Severian1392 — 7 days ago

2016 Alan Moore Interview with Rob Vollmar for World Literature Today

"Nobody in the world is ever going to call themselves 'Dr Evil' because we all are the heroes in our own stories."

Thank you anonymous Reddit user for the link to this article. Another one from the vast wanted pile.

Also 2016, is it really ten years since Jerusalem came out?

PDF link in comments

u/andrewdotlee — 8 days ago

Review of “I Hear A New World” in the California Review of Books

“Moore’s prose is as wild and unrestrained as the tale he tells, and it flows like an elaborate and vivid dream.”

Full review here.

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u/tmcamp — 7 days ago
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My attempt at a statue of Glycon

I have been reading the bumper book recently and thought it would be fun to try and make a statue of glycon. I struggled a bit with making the hair look nice, but than again, I've never tried gluing (my own) hair to anything before (lol), so I'm quite happy with how it turned out under the circumstances.

u/Stovitz — 10 days ago

Larry Schexnayder hovers over a building with limbs coming out of it. A Case of Symmetry and layered Yellow Peril visuals.

Picture 3 is what the cover of Watchmen 1 looks like reflected on to itself through symmetry. It showcases a nightmarish Klansmen hovered over a depiction of the racially charged “Yellow Peril” propaganda from back in the 1930’s/40’s.

You can see this propaganda in Picture 2, a real classic case. Note that Yellow Creature depicted in picture 2 has the same nose, eyes, and smile of the figure in picture 3.

Now then, I just realized…

This castle in picture 1 CLEARLY has limbs coming through it. I believe this is another visual cue of the “Yellow Peril” creature and its symmetry with picture 3 is fantastic. Larry (nightmarish Klansmen) hovers over the Yellow Peril.

This is also Adrian Veidt’s entire plan but on a cosmic scale. He plans on uniting the Earth through racism and xenophobia, being afraid of the “alien who will completely destroy your known way of life.”

The Alien Monster we see at the end of Watchmen, while not explicitly yellow, also encompasses an Octopus like figure with several limbs.

Ya’ll.

Seriously.

It’s right there.

If not, what are those limbs in Picture 1 supposed to be representing?

u/EffMemes — 9 days ago
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Alan Moore quote.

I found this old add with an Alan Moore Quote. Thought you might fancy it.

u/spookyman212 — 11 days ago
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Does Alan Moore's 'Saga of the Swamp Thing' contain any graphic nudity?

My 14 year old was asking if he could read this book but I know Alan Moore and Swamp Thing can be generally mature. Thoughts?

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u/Nice-Choice324 — 12 days ago

Glycon/Choubis resonance

Greetings! Somewhere around my deep dive into magick through the gateways of Fossil Angles and Promethea a deity called me. Lion Headed Serpent began to call for my attention and at first I have discovered that mostly such figure is known as Gnostic Demiurge, which usually described as quite an awful person to deal with. But later on I have found information about “Favorite Chnoubis Ring of Carl Jung” and couldn’t stand to draw parallels with Glycon which also has solar phallic nature as well as Chnoubis which was depicted on countless healing and protection amulets. Later on I had a vision of the Sun in 4D with fourth dimension being time, as a giant serpent with fiery head. In that way I have discovered for myself Chnoubis as a deity of the Creation and of Arts, which is resonant with Glycon’s heritage of the Apollo’s heir. So yeah, what do you think of these serpentine deities and do they speak to you in similar fashion?
All images in this post are my artistic offerings to mentioned above deities.

u/NlGHTGROWLER — 10 days ago