Armageddon 2019.

§ May 19th, 2014 § Filed under dc comics, swamp thing § 5 Comments


So here they are, the images that will comprise the lenticular cover for the Swamp Thing “Futures End” one-shot due out in a few months, which I’ll be ordering, along with a few dozen other similarly-covered comics, in the next week or so with what will be my best, but likely ultimately incorrect, guesses as to how they are going to sell.

I first assumed, upon seeing that cover, that we were in for something similar to this long-ago issue of Swamp Thing by Alan Moore and John Totleben, where our hero, during his exile in space, tries to build a body from a biomechanical entity and ends up some sort of weird robo-Swampy. That, at some point between the present DC Universe and the 5-Years-Later DCU, Swamp Thing becomes a Robot Elemental and, hell, I don’t know.

The actual solicit on the DC Comics website, which is probably in the Previews I looked at a couple of weeks ago but I’ve been trying not to think about, notes that Swamp Thing is going to war against “the avatars of Bacteria and Metal,” so that’s Metal Thing, I suppose, though “Metal Thing” brings something else entirely to mind. But that’s a pretty neat cover image anyway, so I definitely made sure to save a copy of that animation to help give me an idea of what that slightly-blurry 3D final product was supposed to look like.

As for some of the other covers: I’m all for the return of the Sand Superman; this cover makes me laugh (“GAH! Where’d you come from?”); but not as much as this cover. Man, the Stranger never catches a break. And, they don’t have the animated version of this cover up yet, but I hope they producers of Smallville send the helmet prop over to NBC so we can see this eventually happen in the Constantine TV show.
 
EDIT 5/21: special thanks to reader Geoph for the improved GIF!

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