I first saw this band at Dave Keane's birthday party last year. They have a song about a sea monster and wear creepy paper mache masks. I recently found this online comic speak and read:
wax museum speak and read
Here is their main site:
Wax Museum Pandemonium
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Swamp Thing Vol. 1: Saga of the Swamp Thing by Alan MooreMy review
rating: 5 of 5 starsI had read an issue from this a long time ago, wanted to write a Swamp Thing story (or should it be a Man-Thing story, who is better? Has there been a cross-over where they meet?)...
Anyway, this is the volume in which Alan Moore re-invents swamp thing as a more mystical creature, plus he fights a demon monkey to save autistic children. He also plays with identity issues surrounding consciousness and bodies. If there is a machine that disassembles your molecular structure and sends the coding to another machine on another planet to reassemble you, but the machine messes up and forgets to dispose of your original body, which one is the real you? Swamp thing is the real you... j/k.
Sounds dumb, but it's not, and think about what that's saying: It's a story about a plant man that explores plant consciousness without being completely boring. I read a Larry Niven short story once that failed at this completely, but this works. Also, unlike most super heroes, swamp thing doesn't really go to the city too often, so the author is confined to writing stories set in a swamp or finding a way to displace swamp thing. Any book that does that successfully deserves extra applause.
The only problem I have with these, and it is a minor problem, is when swamp thing self-references himself as 'swamp thing.' Sometimes he encourages himself saying, 'I am the swamp thing.' Would a plant consciousness really call itself the swamp thing. I feel like that would be what people who thought he was a monster would call him, because they couldn't think of any other way to describe him. "Hey look out it's some kind of hideous, swamp... thing!" or "swamp monster" or "swamp creature." Pick this up.
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Check out my biblio store: Mt. Pleasant Books
If you want something I have, but don't want to pay the price, just email me and make me an offer. I get new books pretty much weekly, so check back.
In other news, Marisse and I started working on a What if...? webcomic....
It's: 'What if... Brea Grant was Swamp Thing?'
Really, I just wanted to have a representation of myself meeting swamp thing.
Also, Aaron Smith was visiting DC this weekend and has a new website where you can order Big Hands (which is really good) and read stuff he's worked on! (Old Ways Inc.)
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