The scientist he once was wants to understand what Woodrue is learning about him.

He desperately tries to look away from the carnage, but he can’t help himself. Mears, on the other hand, makes Swamp Thing look more lost and desperate than ever before, struggling and gurgling his way through his conversation with Woodrue. Using Swamp Thing's complacency to his advantage, Woodrue uses samples of his body to connect to the mystical Green force.Durand replaces much of Woodrue’s previous twitchiness with a kind of swaggering confidence, as he’s fully in his element in this medical facility. Swamp Thing himself was now in a literally vegetative state, having been paralyzed after a breakdown upon realizing what he truly was. Having always thought that he was truly Alec Holland and hoping to find a way to return to his human life, Swamp Thing goes on a rampage that eventually results in Sunderland's death.įloronic Man would go on in the next issue to tell Swamp Thing's associates Abby and Matt Cable about the creature's true origins, continuing his experiments on him all the while. Woodrue realizes that Swamp Thing isn't dead and will simply regenerate, so he escapes the premises while leaving his findings for the monster to see. Sunderland disregards these and other findings, much to his later detriment. He suspects that when he was exposed to the Bio-Restorative formula and came into contact with the swamp when he died, that it produced a plant matter copy of him that held many of his memories. From there, he makes a discovery that completely rewrites Swamp Thing's nature from the ground up.įloronic Man realizes that Swamp Thing isn't a transformed Alec Holland, but instead merely a creature that thinks that it's Alec Holland.

Discovering numerous vegetable facsimiles of organs within Swamp Thing's body, Woodrue surmises that these are merely vestigial limbs of sorts that could not have any real functional role. In Moore, Bissette and Totleben's Saga of the Swamp Thing #21, Woodrue calls on these abilities to give Swamp Thing's corpse an autopsy. Also known as the Floronic Man, Woodrue not only had a hand in turning Pamela Isley into Poison Ivy, but also possessed his own plant-based powers. Planning to reverse-engineer the Bio-Restorative formula that originally created Swamp Thing from the creature's body, Mr. It involves the Sunderland Company trying to kill Swamp Thing and his allies once and for all, seemingly succeeding in doing so when the issue ends with Swamp Thing's bullet-riddled body crumpling to the ground. Alan Moore began his iconic run with Dan Day and Totleben in Saga of the Swamp Thing #20, though this issue would only serve to finish up previous storylines and segue into the new direction that Moore was planning for the book.

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