2017-06-02
Shaenon: This storyline was co-written with David Blake, who pledged at the Arbiter of Reality level of our last Kickstarter and thus gained the privilege of doing Jeff’s job. Thank you, David!
Skin Horse
By Shaenon K. Garrity & Jeffrey C. Wells
Alternate reply: “You mean his wife patented the crime and now I can get my wife into trouble for patent violations for doing it as well? :P”
I don’t know, that seems like it would be too generic to work as a process patent. Copyright might work though.
I wouldn’t say she did it as well. I mean, Swamp Thing is a towering 7-foot monster with a connection to The Green and you’re just a badly stuffed alligator.
“Did it as well?” She wasn’t _trying_ to create a swamp thing, she was disposing of a body, a task she definitely did a better job of than whatstheirname in Marvel.
Really, now. The proper term is Mirish-American.
She could’a chopped you up and flushed you down the toilet, dude.
Does not compute. But I’m a Steve Gerber, Ted Sallis-Man-Thing guy, so my credibility is already in question.
My Age of Comic Books was a while back- I seem to recall two, one with a human face, one with sort of face tentacles that never seemed to do anything. Pretty much identical otherwise, though…
Tentacle guy was Marvel Comics’ Man Thing, best remembered from the phrase “Giant-Si…” um, I mean, “He who knows fear will burn at the touch of the Man Thing”. Oh, and it was the title where Steve Gerber created Howard the Duck.
Regular face guy was DC’s Swamp Thing, who was written by Alex Moore when he was revolutionising the comics industry and is where he created John Constantine. So which is better clearly depends on whether you prefer your sarcastic, chain-smoking weirdness magnets with feathers.
And before either of them, there was…the Heap. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heap_(comics)
Thanks! I could swear I once read a text story about a swamp thing that formed around a human skeleton… “And whose bones” etc. etc. etc. Lovecraft maybe? And as a fan of Howard the Duck, I guess I have to look for at least *that* Man-Thing… although Swamp Thing gave us a chance to see Adrienne’s Barbeaus…
The weirdest bit is that Man-Thing and Swamp Thing’s first appearances came out within a couple months of each other without any apparent direct influence from one to the other.
If you’re curious, Man-Thing came out first, though the Heap has them both beat by almost thirty years.
Just noticed I said Alex Moore here when I meant Alan Moore. Oops.
Y’know…if this was rental property, and there was a chemical swamp right outside…well, I hope it was *low* rent…
No they owned the place and his widow sold it to a developer. He meant landlord to mean the new owner of the property.
If his wife killed him, why does the gator want to off his landlord? Aside from underselling the toxic swamp outside their house. That’s really too efficient at getting rid of evidence, and would definitely be a negative on the real estate ads.
Swamp Thing wasn’t murdered by his WIFE. He was murdered by his romantic RIVAL attempting to STEAL his wife. Very different. Also TECHNICALLY Swamp Thing is a different existence to that guy, but his death and psyche were instrumental in his awakening. Alex Ross is weird okay?