In 1983 — two years before starting work on Watchmen — the British writer Alan Moore got his start in U.S. comics on DC's flagging Swamp Thing series, which had been revived to ''cash in'' on a nonblockbuster film adaptation. Moore decimated the supporting cast, reimagined cornball old villains as genuine horrors, and revealed that the titular character wasn't a mutated man after all, but rather a delusional plant. Then, aided by the spooky, surrealistic hatchings of Stephen Bissette and John Totleben, Moore invented the modern, for-grown-ups comic, collected in Saga of the Swamp Thing: Book One: hyperintelligent, emotionally potent, and, yes, fun. A
Saga of the Swamp Thing: Book One by Alan Moore, Stephen Bissette, and John Totleben
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