Dr. Holland's Opus
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Four pages from SWAMP THING 1...
At the start of the issue, we find Alec Holland working as a construction worker, trying his hardest to ignore his past. Occasionally, the Green makes mild attempts to reach out to him, but he ignores it. One day, Superman shows up to check in on him.
"...right now, I just don't want to be found."
One night, he wakes up in his motel room to find himself being stalked by stalks.
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Date: 2011-09-08 05:53 am (UTC)You can also see an inevitable crossover with Animal Man a mile away.
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Date: 2011-09-08 06:30 am (UTC)It isn't calm or balanced or neutral. It is hungry and dangerous and every creature in a biosphere will kill anything else to ensure its own survival. Periods of inactivity are because there's enough resources to go around (or more likely) there aren't too many species competing for space and food. But give nature enough life in a confined space, and things get ugly real quick.
Nature destroys and eats itself a thousand times a day. Nature Isn't Nice.
(but damned if it's not impressive and worth trying not to step on)
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Date: 2011-09-08 08:42 am (UTC)But yes, nature is cruel, why wouldn't it?
oh god this is so pretty..I might actually start to read this (even though I don't know anything about the Swamp Thing)
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Date: 2011-09-08 10:07 am (UTC)With plants it's mostly automatic responses (or simply things breaking off, like with urticaceae)
Of course pain is an automatic response as well. It really depends on the definition, yeah :)
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Date: 2011-09-08 11:47 am (UTC)I have seen the insect world, and I am REALLY GLAD that I'm not in that part of the food chain. Apex predator mammals WOOO
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Date: 2011-09-09 12:22 am (UTC)I have seen the insect world, and I am REALLY GLAD that I'm not in that part of the food chain. Apex predator mammals WOOO
Human botflies would beg to differ...
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Date: 2011-09-08 12:20 pm (UTC)So either everything has already happened in continuity or it hasn't...in which case what was the point of this exercise? How new reader friendly is introducing a Hawk and Dove in media res or a Swamp Thing that talks to a Superman who remembers a major 20 year old story arc and references it? Yes, they waste time doing info-dumps...but that's not really the same as an interesting story. This was supposed to be an opportunity to reset everything...instead they've done another half-assed job, with new and old readers bound to be totally confused about the rewritten continuity (like when Superman and Batman weren't original members of the Justice League, fr'ex).
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Date: 2011-09-08 12:51 pm (UTC)But what is that history? Is it like the one in the comics? How closely does it match? The answer to those questions is, "It doesn't matter. You don't need to know those details to enjoy the present day stories." Same with the history of the new DCU.
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Date: 2011-09-08 05:46 pm (UTC)This makes me irritated (and perhaps unreasonably so) because it seems to be feeding directly out of Brightest Day, not starting from scratch with stuff already going on. It strikes me as a wasted opportunity...not because I care about Dawn and Deadman being an item, but because of all the continuity problems that just threw themselves up in my face...for little or no benefit that I can see.
On the other hand, it may just be Liefeld rage. :)
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