A WEIRD HERO: Week of Weird Day 2

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Swamp Things: Comic Book Muck Men, Bog Beasts, and Mud Monsters

Ben Avery

24 episodes

2 months ago

A celebration of comic book muck encrusted mockeries of men from Swamp Thing to Sludge to Man-Thing to the Heap to all the nameless slime monsters from random horror comics!

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A celebration of comic book muck encrusted mockeries of men from Swamp Thing to Sludge to Man-Thing to the Heap to all the nameless slime monsters from random horror comics!

A WEIRD HERO: Week of Weird Day 2 – CBTM135 (Ben)

Swamp Things: Comic Book Muck Men, Bog Beasts, and Mud Monsters

29 minutes 52 seconds

7 years ago

A WEIRD HERO: Week of Weird Day 2 – CBTM135 (Ben)

For today’s episode in the Week of Weird, one of the weirdest comics I’ve ever read.
Bill Mantlo, Keith Giffen, and Klaus Jansen create a tale that should be goofy or campy, and yet it carries some surprising depth. Not super deep depth, but the depth it DOES reach is surprising.
As part of a try out series, this story got tried out and then left behind. But it was good enough to get an episode in The Comic Book Time Machine, so that’s something…
Also, today’s podcast promo: find The Quarter-Bin Podcast here.