Her investigation drives the story of the show and her character is our way into this mysterious town. The first two episodes of Swamp Thing are mostly Abby’s story. Form there we follow CDC researcher Abby Arcane ( Crystal Reed) – who does not have white hair (though this may change) – investigating a deadly swamp-borne virus that is threatening her childhood home of Marais, Louisiana, where she discovers that people stayed the same, but the swamp has fallen to something mysterious and unnatural. The opening scene follows a group of mercenaries who go looking for something deep in a Louisiana swamp, before the vines and roots from the nearby trees start attacking them, impaling one of the mercenaries and tearing the other to shreds. Alec Holland doesn’t create a bio-restorative formula that affects the plant life, for the titular swamp is already acting up before the show begins. It took us 48 years since the character’s creation, but we are finally getting the proper horror-oriented Swamp Thing show we deserve.įrom the opening scene, showrunners Gary Dauberman ( It) and Mark Verheiden ( Daredevil, Constantine) want you to know theirs is a different version of the swamp.

On the comic book side, The Saga of the Swamp Thing was the first mainstream comic book series to abandon the Comics Code Authority’s approval in favor of a mature, dark and horror-oriented legendary run.ĭespite its heavy roots in the horror genre, the titular Swamp Thing was rather campy, including starring in an animated TV series that had a cover of The Troggs’ Wild Thing that just changed the word ‘Wild’ for ‘Swamp’ and called it a day. Right after Christopher Reeve made people believe a man could fly, and before Batman got nuts, Wes Craven pulled something out of a swamp to become a moderate success. Swamp Thing may not be as popular as Batman, but the vegetable monstrosity has always been at the forefront of comic book milestones.

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