The Swamp Thing (2021-) #5 features John Constantine.

[thanekos]

It's a detour from #4, which ended with the Suicide Squad being aimed at the titular character.

He, Levi Kamei, was unaware of that manipulation by the man who employed him in his human life - but was aware of his manipulation by the Green that had chosen him to succeed Alec Holland as its avatar.

Once again, that plane of plant life drew him out of his human body and into a green one - this time, in London.

There, Constantine had also been summoned - by someone he knew personally.



She, a magician named Sierra Kirre, described what'd moved her to call on a man she hadn't parted cleanly from.

" I don't know what's going on.. "



(In March 2021, the Police, Crime, Sentencing, and Courts Bill was introduced into Parliament. It included an amendment to the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980, one that would make " any offence committed by destroying or damaging a memorial " open to being tried with " the full range of sentencing powers. "

The bill was passed and became law on April 28th, 2022.)

" It was on a September night the humming drone began. "



While the Swamp Thing dove into memories and bombs and living in the debris after, John and Sierra went in search of the latter's missing friend Nigel.

The magicians and the elemental converged.



In the man tangled up in the bomb, Sierra recognized Nigel.



" I will try, Constantine.. to reach into the ground.. and beneath.. where my roots can go.

" I will try.. to pull this idea.. from this place. "



' He resurfaces on the desolate edge of a distant island. '



John, meanwhile, took a hit of some " yunshi powder " Sierra had - and went searching in Nigel's psyche.

" There you are, Nige. "



On the island, the bomb went off.



(Alderney is part of the Baliwick of Guernsey, a territory associated with the British government that the Germans seized during World War II.

Lager Sylt was one of the two concentration camps the Germans established there.)



(Pagecount's 7 and under a third of 22 from The Swamp Thing #5, back in July 2021.

Writing's Ram V, art's John McCrea, colors're Mike Spicer, and letters're Aditya Bidikar.

Publisher's DC.)

Comments

[blues32]

The hell is wrong with DC these days? Why are they making Waller a lunatic instead of a no nonsense hard ass like she used to be? Attempting to acquire Swamp Thing as an asset? She knows next to nothing about him. She has a vague idea what he can do but nothing about how he can do it. It's as reckless as it is pointless.

[nyadnar17]

Its not just DC.

"CIA/Black ops bad" so lets turn them all into cartoonish caricatures of mad scientist has infected Marvel as well.

Like these stories can't serve as warnings if the obvious answer is just "put someone who isn't a total fucking idiot, lunatic in charge".

[blues32]

I can't think of anything in Marvel that comes close to this level of recklessness. I mean, at least when the Thunderbolts enlisted Man Thing, it agreed first.

[deh_tommy]

Maria Hill and Beast immediately come to mind. The former can’t buy a pint of milk without conspiring ways to brainwash the farmers, blow up the farm and keep the cow for herself in some underground VR world where it’s milked dry while framing Moon Knight or something, and the latter positively delights to being what he thinks is the “necessary b******” and admits to modelling X-Force off the CIA.

[blues32]

The sad thing is that both of them have shown more restraint than Waller. She's started recruited on a multiversal level and somehow managed to wall off Earth 3 from the other universes. She tried to force Ultraman into her service. That's madness.

[icon_uk]

Yeah, Waller attempting to recruit someone she knows nothing about and so can't begin to coerce or control is.. not a good take on Waller.

Did the Alan Moore Swamp Thing vs Gotham City storyline happen, because if it did, she would know about it, and if she thinks she can weaponise Swamp Thing after that, she does not deserve her position.

[lissa_quon]

Well - who knows what happened in the DC timeline. But yea - you'd think after that Gotham City event people would just go "oh...lets leave the green guy to do his green guy things - as long as he doesn't like hurt anyone."

[cainofdreaming]

It's also been already done. Waller tried to pressgang the Holland version and got told off in no uncertain terms.

[lissa_quon]

So she's even more stupid than we thought.

Goddamn.

[cygnia]

At least Peacemaker hasn't gone after Swampy's pube...yet.