# Alan Moore fans: DC releasing TP of some of his non-Swamp Thing stories **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 10, 2003, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-moore-fans-dc-releasing-tp-of-some-of-his-non-swamp-thing-stories/167694 "2003-04-10T01:57:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Payton\_s\_Servant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3da27b/32.png) [@Payton\_s\_Servant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Payton_s_Servant)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-moore-fans-dc-releasing-tp-of-some-of-his-non-swamp-thing-stories/167694/1 "2003-04-10T01:57:55Z")
The TP is due out in June. Looks like it will include _For The Man Who Has Everything_ from Superman Annual #11 as well as a bunch of other stuff. _What, you want a link?_ _Sigh_ [I suppose…](http://www3.tfaw.com/gn/profile.html?cart=3099450466334482&sku=Apr030174d1) ---
**Author:** ![Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aslan_of_Narnia)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-moore-fans-dc-releasing-tp-of-some-of-his-non-swamp-thing-stories/167694/2 "2003-04-10T02:53:19Z")
Did they ever collect any of his Swamp Thing run? I recall reading about how they only collected a limitied amount of the vertigo run, which IIRC moore didn’t write any? Anyway, the volume looks quite interesting. I’ll have to check it out(lmost likely at my library 😉 ). ---
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One of the best lines ever in comic book history was written by Alan Moore. I’d like to repeat it here. This is an imaginary story (which may never happen, but then again may) about a perfect man who came from the sky and did only good. It tells of his twilight, when the great battles were over and the great miracles long since performed; of how his enemies conspired against him and of that final war in the snowblind wastes beneath the Northern Lights; of the two women he loved and of the choice he made between them; and how finally all the things he had were taken from him save one. It ends with a wink. It begins in a quiet midwestern town, one summer afternoon in the quiet midwestern future. Away in the big city, people still sometimes glance up hopefully from the sidewalks, glimpsing a distant speck in the sky… but no: it’s only a bird, only a plane. Superman died ten years ago. This is an imaginary story… Aren’t they all? Whatever Happened To The Man of Tomorrow. The last pre-crisis issues of Action and Superman. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Death](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecccb3/32.png) [@Evil\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Death)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-moore-fans-dc-releasing-tp-of-some-of-his-non-swamp-thing-stories/167694/4 "2003-04-10T11:04:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Aslan2 \* > **Did they ever collect any of his Swamp Thing run? I recall reading about how they only collected a limitied amount of the vertigo run, which IIRC moore didn’t write any?** SFAIAA, they’ve _only_ collected Moore’s Swamp Thing. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-moore-fans-dc-releasing-tp-of-some-of-his-non-swamp-thing-stories/167694/5 "2003-04-10T11:15:15Z")
They also collected the two part “Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow” story in a really thin little trade paperback that’s now out of print, IIRC. Of the stuff being collected in the TP that the OP was writing about, SUPERMAN ANNUAL #11 was great DC COMICS PRESENTS #85 was great (Superman and Swamp Thing) BATMAN ANNUAL #11 was…eh…ok DETECTIVE COMICS #549 & 550 I think this was a Green Arrow backup. It was mediocre, if so. SECRET ORIGINS #10 very good, but fairly short: 1/4th of an issue VIGILANTE #17 & 18 I don’t even remember it. Maybe _this_ was the Green Arrow backup? OMEGA MEN #26 & 27 ditto, but I remember not liking it. GREEN LANTERN #188 - “Mogo Doesn’t Socialize” (DON’T SPOIL IT FOR THE NEWBIES) a classic 4 page backup GREEN LANTERN CORPS ANNUAL #2 & 3- one of 'em, an Abin Sur story, is great. I don’t remember the other one. Overall, a mixed bag of stuff. Frankly, I think they shoulda put the “Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow” story in there too, since the GN is out of print and it would beef up the volume considerably, since there’s some so-so material. They should also have included Swamp Thing #20, Moore’s first issue which, since it wrapped up the previous writer’s storyline has never (IIRC) been collected or reprinted anywhere. As it is, it’s much more a volume for the obsessive collector than the casual reader. Fenris ---
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2003, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-moore-fans-dc-releasing-tp-of-some-of-his-non-swamp-thing-stories/167694/6 "2003-04-12T13:45:27Z")
The final Trade of the Alan Moore Swamp Thing run is coming out in May or June. ---
**Author:** ![Fiat\_Lux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ea666f/32.png) [@Fiat\_Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiat_Lux)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2003, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-moore-fans-dc-releasing-tp-of-some-of-his-non-swamp-thing-stories/167694/7 "2003-04-12T13:47:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by watsonwil \* > \*\*The final Trade of the Alan Moore Swamp Thing run is coming out in May or June. \*\* Cool. Now if only something would persuade them to reprint the rest of Jamie Delano’s run on Hellblazer. Call me a heretic, but I much prefer him, and what he did with Constantine, to Garth Ennis. ---
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2003, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-moore-fans-dc-releasing-tp-of-some-of-his-non-swamp-thing-stories/167694/8 "2003-04-12T14:24:26Z")
> [@](#): > > Official Press Release > > Swamp Thing: Reunion TPB Completes Alan Moore’s Historic Run on Seminal Horror Series > > This June, DC will release the Swamp Thing: Reunion TPB, collecting the final issues of Alan Moore’s groundbreaking run on Swamp Thing. This new title completes Moore’s work the series, which began in 1983 and helped lay the groundwork DC’s Vertigo imprint.“The stories in this trade are among Alan’s finest work on Swamp Thing,” says Karen Berger, VP - Executive Editor, Vertigo. > > … > > These powerful tales chronicle Swamp Thing’s epic journey across the stars from the distant, mysterious blue planet back home to Earth and his love, Abby - and the amazing alien worlds he crosses along the way.The rest of Moore’s work on Swamp Thing is available in five previous trade paperbacks. ---
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**Evil Death** wrote: > [@](#): > > **SFAIAA, they’ve _only_ collected Moore’s Swamp Thing.** There’s also _WATCHMEN_ and virtually all of his America’s Best Comics output (which, appearnces to the contrary, DC pulishes). The _VIGILANTE_ story mentioned earlier was outstanding, or maybe it just seemed to be becuse the whole rest of the series (or at least as much of it as I’d read) was so horrible. He made his bones at DC by taking forgotten characters no one else wanted to touch, and then showing how much untapped potential they had. I wish he’d had occasion to do the same thing with some Marvel characters. “Mogo Doesn’t Socialize.” Heh heh. Wonder if “F Sharp Bell” is that other GL story? There’s a sector of the universe where there’s no light or sight, and the words “Green” and “Lantern” have no meaning or context, which hinders the process of recruiting a new member, and… ---
**Author:** ![raisinbread](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8491ac/32.png) [@raisinbread](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raisinbread)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2003, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-moore-fans-dc-releasing-tp-of-some-of-his-non-swamp-thing-stories/167694/10 "2003-04-12T16:23:34Z")
Mogo is a planet I wonder if they’re ever going to release the Swamp Thing meets Jesus Christ story. I remember a few pages were on display at the Northampton comic museum. ---
**Author:** ![Payton\_s\_Servant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3da27b/32.png) [@Payton\_s\_Servant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Payton_s_Servant)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2003, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-moore-fans-dc-releasing-tp-of-some-of-his-non-swamp-thing-stories/167694/11 "2003-04-12T16:35:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Evil Death \* > \*\*SFAIAA, they’ve _only_ collected Moore’s Swamp Thing. \*\* There is also Vol. 1 in TP of his work on **Supreme**. I heard that Vol. 2 is due out in May. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Death](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecccb3/32.png) [@Evil\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Death)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2003, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-moore-fans-dc-releasing-tp-of-some-of-his-non-swamp-thing-stories/167694/12 "2003-04-12T21:26:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Payton’s Servant \* > \*\*There is also Vol. 1 in TP of his work on **Supreme**. I heard that Vol. 2 is due out in May. \*\* Ahem - I know that more of Moore has been collected than Swampy. The complete Promethea, Top 10, etc. What I meant was that, of all the Swamp Thing comics, only Moore’s run has been collected. ---
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2003, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-moore-fans-dc-releasing-tp-of-some-of-his-non-swamp-thing-stories/167694/13 "2003-04-12T21:46:43Z")
There is at LEAST one Len Wein Swamp Thing TPB. ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2003, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-moore-fans-dc-releasing-tp-of-some-of-his-non-swamp-thing-stories/167694/14 "2003-04-12T22:23:16Z")
Well, I must say I’m relieved to learn that the “TP” in the thread title apparently stands for “Trade Paperback.” --'Cos I _like_ Alan Moore’s work. (It’s “TPB,” right?) On the other hand, DC really ought to release some of Garth Ennis’ work in TP format. Hell, I’d buy a couple rolls… ---
**Author:** ![Fiat\_Lux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ea666f/32.png) [@Fiat\_Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiat_Lux)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2003, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-moore-fans-dc-releasing-tp-of-some-of-his-non-swamp-thing-stories/167694/15 "2003-04-12T23:19:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Terrifel \* > \*\* > > On the other hand, DC really ought to release some of Garth Ennis’ work in TP format. Hell, I’d buy a couple rolls… \*\* I have a fellow heretic! Preach to me, brother