Swamp Thing #5
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| Writer | Ram V |
| Artist | John McCrea |
| Cover Price | $3.99 |
Newly armed with the knowledge and powers he gained from the Green and yet lonelier than ever, Levi Kamei is pulled once more into service as the Avatar of the Green is summoned by primal forces to the city of London, where old ideas lie buried, slowly leaching into the reality above. The scars of old wars and the dangers of past ideologies resurface as the Swamp Thing must team up with an old trench-coated acquaintance and his new protégé to save the present from the atrocities of our past.
CRITIC REVIEWS Back to Top
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DC Comics News - Matthew Lloyd
Jul 06, 2021Since the end of Future State, DC seems to be publishing generally high quality books all around. It's been since Rebirth that it's been this way. The Swamp Thing is not only one of the best, it may very well be the best! It's easy to see with an issue like The Swamp Thing #5. There's just no drop off issue to issue as the series has a deep thoughtfulness that resonates well beyond a comic book story. It's a hallmark of the character and these creators are doing a spectacular job of following in some big footsteps. Read Full Review
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BGCP - Michael Lennox
Jul 07, 2021Many argue that that politics should be kept out of comics, while the rest think that comics are a mirror for political commentary. Ram tapdances along this dangerous line skillfully adding enough myth and magic while giving a clever dig at UK society and it's current right wing tendancies. This is a delight and back to the strength of the first few issues. Read Full Review
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9.5
AIPT - Nathan Simmons
Jul 06, 2021John Constantine and Swamp Thing go together like arsenic and old lace, and this is easily one of their most thrilling team-ups in recent history. Read Full Review
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9.3
The Super Powered Fancast - Deron Generally
Jul 06, 2021John McCrea does an excellent job with the art in this issue. There are so many visually stunning moments and the style of the art captures the mood of the story perfectly. Read Full Review
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9.2
Monkeys Fighting Robots - Zac Owens
Jul 06, 2021DC Comics'THE SWAMP THINGis an incredible series. At times it channels Alan Moore, other times it channels Grant Morrison. But in all of it, this creative team is producing a brilliant, fresh work. It's a patchwork of what's come before, in some ways. Yet it has just as much new, exciting things as it does homages and callbacks. Read Full Review
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9.0
Geek Dad - Ray Goldfield
Jul 06, 2021This continues to be one of DC's most unique books, and as we shift to the second half of the story, this issue was a welcome change of pace. But there's enemies back in the United States, and there is a lot of ground to cover in the second half of this series. Read Full Review
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9.0
ComicBook.com - Chase Magnett
Jul 07, 2021The Swamp Thing #5 provides an interlude from the series' central narrative and it's one that clarifies the concepts at the center of said narrative with an outstanding guest artist. Read Full Review
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9.0
COMICON - Olly MacNamee
Jul 07, 2021The Swamp Thing is summoned to London i the latest issue of Ram V's run, and he's not the only supernatural DC character to turn up to a house haunted by a WWII bomb. Guest artist John McCrea is the prefect fit with a style that suits Swampy exceptionally well. Read Full Review
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8.0
The Comicbook Dispatch - glimmer0415
Jul 06, 2021The Swamp Thing #5 is a fun read that most fans of the character will enjoy. Although I wasn't blown away the way I had been with the previous issues, it's definitely worth the price of admission. New readers can start here as it's the beginning of a new storyline, but be aware it can be a bit confusing if you're not familiar with the supporting cast of Swamp Thing characters. Read Full Review
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5.0
Weird Science - Gabe Hernandez
Jul 06, 2021After five issues, we know nothing about the main character, this issue takes a break from the trajectory and urgency of the main arc for a seemingly trivial errand, and the execution of "the how" and "the why" makes little sense. Read Full Review
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Levi finally crosses paths with the notorious John Constantine in a fantastic stand-alone issue that also successfully continues story threads set up in previous issues.
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9.0
"What if human ideas have begun to pollute the consciousness of this world?" Loved the story, and Mcrea's art transitioned well from Perkins, extremely fitting for this issue. Dreading the Suicide Squad crossover but I'm sure Ram will do it justice.
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9.0
Holy shit, are people ass-blasted at the slightest hint of any theme. This is what happens when you get all your political opinions from child-molesting Youtubers.
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8.5
I guess if anybody was going to make a tribute to Alan Moore, Swamp Thing is the place to start. The inclusion of John Constantine and humanity's absurd human nature will certainly give that feeling. With the Green's new status of data outpouring everything and how it ties to magic, seeing a bit of data going out, something has to be done to show how it affects regular people. My interest in the mechanics of magic certainly let me immerse myself into this. Like a single idea that never came up and demanding it be released. That's something writers deal with on a constant basis. Especially in comic books with how some ideas are left on the back-burner never to be touched again by forces beyond their control.
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8.5
Art was not up to the standard set by Mike Perkins, but this was still an enjoyable, mostly self-contained story. Always fun seeing Swampy and Constantine interacting.
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8.0
This feels like it's trying so hard to be a classic Hellblazer (btw, read classic Hellblazer) issue, but it just doesn't hit the mark. I feel like I'm picking on an invalid at this point, but Merlyn got triggered AGAIN because someone made the bold insinuation that the UK has some bigotry in it. Just in case he didn't know, and I'm sure he didn't, one of the major reasons for Brexit occurring was the Syrian refugee crisis, wherein Britain took in a monumental number of, you guessed it, ten thousand Syrian refugees. Hardly anything for a country with nearly 67 million people. But alas, an anti-immigrant narrative sprung up due to a conspiracy called "The Great Replacement," a Neo-Nazi conspiracy that posits a concerted effort by the Jews to more
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8.0
Despite this being a good issue, it just doesn't reach the heights as the previous four issues, unfortunately. Despite John McCrea proving to be a nice transition from Mike Perkins, the story from V. here just isn't as engaging or as interesting as what we've seen prior. Suicide Squad is once again teased at the end of this issue and I'm still not looking forward to it that much. I'm just hoping V. gives me some reason to enjoy them as antagonists.
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1.5
Yet another writer who can't get over Brexit and feels the need to invent fascists in UK, which is amusingly ironic since UK was probably the only major country in Western Europe where fascism completely failed. But in Ram V's tiny mind conservatives and brexiteers are probably the fascists he dreams of. A lot of pseudo-philosophical stuff, art took a major step down from Perkins, we still have no reason to care about Levi Kamei. I'd say this book fails to gain very much attention and deservedly so.
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