{"id":559,"date":"2007-06-27T15:45:48","date_gmt":"2007-06-27T15:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=559"},"modified":"2007-06-27T16:28:42","modified_gmt":"2007-06-27T16:28:42","slug":"swamp-thing-love-in-vain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/06\/27\/swamp-thing-love-in-vain\/","title":{"rendered":"Swamp Thing: Love in Vain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/sthlov.jpg\" alt=\"Swamp Thing: Love in Vain\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By <strong>Joshua Dysart<\/strong>, <strong>Enrique Breccia<\/strong> &amp; <strong>Timothy Green II<\/strong> (Vertigo)<br \/>\nISBN 1-84576-195-2<\/p>\n<p><strong>Swamp Thing<\/strong> is gradually trudging back to its horrific roots as Joshua Dysart touches all the old bases of exotic Louisiana Bayous, lonely women in rotting plasterboard shacks, do-it-yourself homunculi, and the latest return of arch-enemy Anton Arcane, whose periodic escapes from Hell are a guarantee of world-threatening gore and deplorability.<\/p>\n<p>Also on show is a tent-Revival Evangelist whose congregations have a habit of disappearing in a volume of tales that although strikingly illustrated by the venerable Enrique Breccia (<em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Love in Vain\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em>) and Timothy Green III (\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<em>A Measure of Faith<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d) seem to temporarily \u00e2\u20ac\u201c we hope &#8211; treading water.<\/p>\n<p>All punned out. Stopping now.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 2005 DC Comics. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 By Joshua Dysart, Enrique Breccia &amp; Timothy Green II (Vertigo) ISBN 1-84576-195-2 Swamp Thing is gradually trudging back to its horrific roots as Joshua Dysart touches all the old bases of exotic Louisiana Bayous, lonely women in rotting plasterboard shacks, do-it-yourself homunculi, and the latest return of arch-enemy Anton Arcane, whose periodic escapes from &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/06\/27\/swamp-thing-love-in-vain\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Swamp Thing: Love in Vain&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graphic-novels","category-swamp-thing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-91","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}