Swamp Thing #0 – Review

By: Scott Snyder (story), Kano (art), Matthew Wilson (colors)

The Story: You ever get the feeling your spouse isn’t acting like herself?

The Review: You may not believe this, but I think I caught on to Harry Potter before pretty much anyone else in my neighborhood.  My middle school library had exactly two copies of the first book, hardbound, with a glossy plastic sheeting they used to cover new books.  Of course, once the floodgates of wizard madness opened, pretty much the only books in the library that anyone actually cared to borrow were Harry Potters, but I digress.

From the very first book, it became obvious that Harry was fated to meet Voldemort again.  I don’t think anyone expected that he’d be confronting Voldemort in practically every single book he starred in, but J.K. Rowling made it clear that was Harry’s destiny as a hero and savior.  In contrast, the Parliament of Trees have made a big fuss over Alec Holland being their legendary warrior-king, but it hasn’t been entirely clear until now how he’d earn that title.  At the end of the day, it was Abby who felled Sethe in #9, not Alec.