Swamp

Things are moving along! A momentous announcement  – the dawn of the Gunn-i-verse at the DCU – is just a lot of chatter without execution. So today the first “in talks” notice of the “Chapter One” era: James Mangold is in talks to direct a Swamp Thing movie. THR broke the story, however, in modern Hollywood fashion Mangold himself loosed the trial balloon with a social media post:  pic.twitter.com/WCDuFtucT6 — Mangold (@mang0ld) February 1, 2023 Thie time out, Mangold tweeted a lovely Bernie Wrightson drawing of Swamp…

New DC Studios co-CEOs James Gunn and Peter Safran unveiled their plans for the upcoming DC movie slate Tuesday, with new Batman and Superman projects among the many titles announced. One of those titles is a feature movie adaptation of Swamp Thing, one of five movies announced. And the Swamp Thing movie may have found its director in James Mangold, who is reportedly in talks to take on the project. Mangold is perhaps best known for the critically acclaimed superhero movie Logan, but he also directed the underrated…

Certain elements of Moore's run featured in the 2019 show, which introduced a versions of Jason "The Floronic Man" Woodrue — whom Moore introduced as Swamp Thing's villainous counterpart — and explored the true nature of the titular character, as well as his-slash-its relationship with Abby Arcane. The series also uses Moore's groundbreaking version of Swamp Thing's origin story — that he isn't Alec Holland, but a genuinely inhuman elemental being that merely retains some of Holland's memories, and shapes…

Marvel’s Halloween special, Werewolf by Night, brings new flavors to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. There’s the Hammer Horror of it all, and the stark black and white colors, and of course, the titular werewolf. But there’s another monster making his debut in Werewolf by Night, with one of the most infamous names in Marvel Comics history: Man-Thing. And the hour-long special doesn’t even do him the courtesy of calling him by his name!…

Hunter S Thompson once said that to get at the truth, especially about something terrible, you had to “get subjective”. He was talking about his sworn enemy Richard Nixon, but it applies just the same to the appalling damage we’re doing to our planet. Newspaper articles, charity reports and activist speeches abound – all earnest and arguably objective, but they somehow fail to capture the true meaning of what’s being lost in the natural world.Perhaps that’s why novelists writing about ecological issues is such a…

| In this preview of Swamp Thing #16, Swamp Thing's fate rests upon Trinity's words to the Parliament of Gears… but shouldn't they both put some clothes on first? If we showed up to court naked, the judge wouldn't be too happy. Just sayin'. Check out the preview below. SWAMP THING #16DC Comics0622DC191(W) Ram V. (A/CA) Mike PerkinsNow restored to full power, the Swamp Thing must face the Parliament of Gears if he has any hope of saving the Earth. But the corruptive, cancerous force of industry has already destroyed so…

You never know what horrors may be lurking at the bottom of a swamp. Bogs, meanwhile, sound comical. Marshes are pleasanter, although bring malaria to mind, while wetlands emanate wholesomeness but are also wet in the “meh” sense of take it or leave it. Yet, as Tom Blass explains, these words all refer to the same thing: a place where land and water have got into a tussle and can’t decide which has won. The result is not so much an equilibrium, although these states of semi-submersion can hold their nerve for millennia,…

| Swamp Thing is souped up with the power of Green Lantern in this preview of Swamp Thing #15, in stores Tuesday from DC Comics. Check out the preview below. SWAMP THING #15DC Comics0522DC1560522DC157 – Swamp Thing #15 Charlie Adlard Cover – $4.99(W) Ram V. (A/CA) Mike PerkinsThe Earth stands on the precipice of destruction as the Parliament of Trees considers a truly dangerous proposal from the Pale Pilgrim. Now Swamp Thing is all that stands between the natural world and Armageddon…or is he? Enter Trinity—an…

If you want to lure a bunch of prehistoric frogs to a sticky end, the best way is the promise of amphibian hanky-panky.That's the conclusion paleontologists have arrived at after studying the remains of hundreds of ancient frogs that died in a swamp around 45 million years ago, in what we now know as Germany.  The findings offer a neat solution to the mystery of why the frogs died, which has been something of a puzzle since they were discovered in the fossil bed decades ago."As far as we can tell, the fossil frogs were…

T. magnifica filaments next to a dime for scale.Gif: Tomas TymlA team of scientists discovered a macroscopic species of bacterium living in the waters off Guadeloupe in the Caribbean, shifting the scales of how big we thought bacteria could be. The newly discovered species is named Thiomargarita (sulfur pearl) magnifica, and it is so large that its single cells are visible to the naked eye.Besides its superlative size, T. magnifica shows signs of increased complexity in bacteria. Instead of its DNA just floating around in…