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Didn’t use its page count well.

So where’s home?!?

Can and should be better.

Is anyone still reading this?
I stopped because PJK dropped the ball on pacing and general storytelling. Did it get better?

Been a long wait.

This issue is a must-have for any SWAMP THING fan past or present, as well as collectors of milestone issues. It’s a beautifully told story of Swampy’s time-traveling encounter with Jesus, his disciples, and the Romans, culminating in the Crucifixion. There’s a wonderful essay included in the issue by Stephen Bissette that gives proper background and context to the series in 1989, along with a loo k at the cultural underpinnings taking place that year in entertainment and politics that DC was being influenced by in terms of their decision to cancel the publication of issue 88. It’s easy to see some of those same turbulent political and cultural forces still in play here in 2026, which makes DC’s decision to finally publish the issue very commendable.

What’s especially cool about the issue to this 47-year comic collector is that the issue features both the original DC house ads from May 1988 as well as a nifty “Johnny DC” column, done in the style of the original columns DC featured at the time, right down to that week’s checklist of May 1988 issues.

From the amazing story and script to the beautiful art, colors and lettering, this book is worthy of your attention and your dollars. Better late than never!more

I liked this issue a lot. Even with the cover, the ending surprised me.

This is still a padded comic with not much story progression.
But it’s the most I’ve enjoyed the series since the beginning.

Much better than the first two issues.

The art is better than last issue, however, I don’t like it when there’s a new artist almost every month. This is how you lose readers, even if the story is as strong as this one. Just settle on a fricking regular artist, Marvel. My favorite would be Delio Diaz.

Probably one of the greatest finales of a marvel story arc ever.
Had to go back and read this.

Definitely my favorite of the vertigo relaunch.

Issue #3 serves up Pluto Fried Chicken in the form of the bizarre Menagerie assassin cleverly named Big Cock, because he has a giant…chicken mask. This comic keeps batting 1000 every issue so far, and this issue certainly doesn’t disappoint. We see a (slightly) less profane, softer side of Eddie, who helps out his ailing dad with a shitty situation, and in gratitude, his dad offers not to try and murder him for one day. This relationship is the heart and soul of an otherwise bananas storyline that sees the townspeople get a big kick out of watching a rude, foul-mouthed assassin and another rude, monosyllabic fowl beaked assassin beat the living shit out of one another for half the issue in one of the funniest, most bizarre throw downs I’ve ever seen in any comic! I find myself at a loss for words over how to describe the details of this fight, other than to say Eddie gets tossed around like a 180-pound human pinwheel.

This is the funniest, wildest comic that most people aren’t reading, and I’m trying to do my part to change that. I can only hope this comic gets optioned as a movie or HBO series, because only then will it really take off into the stratosphere. Until then, this delightful book will be DC’S (and a few select fans such as myself) naughty little secret!more