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Atomic Knight said:
Are either interested or available?

Dini would work I think. Not sure about Kevin. Not sure Swampy is in his skill set to be honest.
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I’m not too sure about that. I think a formally devout catholic man and religious scholar like Kevin smith who now studies religiosity would have a lot to say about a character like Swamp thing and his effect on the natural world


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Stoopid_Sandwich said:
Just because my curiosity was starting to get the better of me I dug out my DCSH Black and Grey S3 Batman and yiiiiiikes. This figure does not hold up well next to its contemporaries at all. The plastic feels really brittle. Almost like vintage 90’s era action figure quality. And the lack of several useful articulation cuts is just a huge oversight. I am praying that these new figures are not a continuation of this line. The DC brand does not need a setback like this
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Which vintage 90s line are you thinking is brittle? My ToyBiz figs aren't, my Playmates figs aren't, SW has some discolored white pieces but aren't brittle, same with my vintage Power Rangers.
 
Speaking for myself, I’m not overly interested in religion or environmentalism in Swamp Thing. Time to return to some straight up gothic horror from the very beginnings of the character. If I could pick a writer and have a 36 issue commitment, I’d have to pick James Tynion IV. Horror is his thing and he knows the DCU quite well. Fantasy booking, I know. But it would be a glorious three years.
 
Atomic Knight said:
I’m not overly interested in religion or environmentalism in Swamp Thing. Time to return to some straight up gothic horror
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Given that religious themes, especially critiques of dominant religious paradigms, and humanity’s relationship to the natural world are thematic cornerstones of gothic horror, it would seem strange (and perhaps agenda-driven) to forcibly exclude religion and environmentalism from Swamp Thing stories.
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AceofKnaves said:
Given that religious themes, especially critiques of dominant religious paradigms, and humanity’s relationship to the natural world are thematic cornerstones of gothic horror, it would seem strange (and perhaps agenda-driven) to forcibly exclude religion and environmentalism from Swamp Thing stories.
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Like, it's impossible to read Dracula without understanding it's an implicit criticism of monarchy and the horrific things that someone with too much power and too little oversight will do, especially if they adopt a belief system makes exploiting and discarding other people part of their inherent rights as a wealthy, powerful person.

This has no relevance to anything currently happening today, obviously. But horror is allegorical. Always has been.
 
AceofKnaves said:
Given that religious themes, especially critiques of dominant religious paradigms, and humanity’s relationship to the natural world are thematic cornerstones of gothic horror, it would seem strange (and perhaps agenda-driven) to forcibly exclude religion and environmentalism from Swamp Thing stories.
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No agenda. I’m just not very interested in the “real world” intruding on my comics. Yes, I know comics are and always have been social commentary. I’m not new. But by way of example, Green Arrow was going along splendidly, and was one of my favorite comics while Josh Williamson was writing. 18 glorious issues. The template was simple and set. Issue #19 came with a new writer and a new direction. A seriously dark turn. He didn’t last a year. Shit. The. Bed. Bye Felicia. I think it’ll be years before Ollie gets his own book again.
 
Atomic Knight said:
I’m just not very interested in the “real world” intruding on my comics.
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lol I’ve got bad news for you about [checks notes] literally the entire history of comic books.
“I don’t want ‘real world’ themes in my aspirational heroic fiction” is like saying “I don’t want guns in my war movie”.

But specific to gothic horror: no one could write even a superficial analysis of Dracula nor Frankenstein (obviously the two most famous works of gothic horror) without touching on the incredibly prominent religious themes and also humanity’s relationship with nature. It’s not subtext: it’s text.
 
Even without a Real World, those Fake Worlds have things like politics and religion and ethics and -isms.

You need that friction to even have a story.

But also by virtue of where we pull mythos and our own shared experience and adversity, you're going to have Real World in your New Genesis no matter what.
 
PIctured: a comic with no basis in recognized ethics.
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