A review by kavreb
Saga of the Swamp Thing: Book Four by Alan Moore

5.0

The one where Moore started getting more into the love story. But what’s so fascinating about it is that it talks about the feeling that someone’s love is abnormal by making us feel the same emotions. Because we, like the other people in the story, feel that the love between these two creatures (one of them alien but familiar in a way that makes it weirder) is so abnormal as to be repellant, perhaps even sickening. But unlike the people around them, we have empathy with them. So we have conflicting feelings - both the feeling like it’s something bad but also that it’s good. And by telling this story in this kind of a way, it allows us to experience in a safe environment feelings that very much exist in the real world. Through this story we can become aware of having this kind of reaction and yet have the awareness to understand its problematic nature. What I’m saying is that it’s a story arc that can make us into better people.

So the book would get top marks already before we get to the great art and the fantastic imagination and all the other thrilling stories (though his heart isn't quite entirely there with the crossover). I just love the Saga of the Swamp Thing series.