11/4/09: The Onion reports:

At a press conference Monday, President Obama announced that he had appointed legendary comic book writer Alan Moore as the official biographer of his time in the White House. "As evidenced by his epic run on Swamp Thing #21–64, Moore's deft hand with both sociopolitical commentary and metaphysical violence makes him an ideal choice to chronicle my time in office," Obama said of the author of Watchmen and From Hell...

10/9/09: London resident Rob Pocock sent me a comment about Sister Anne-Marie's train route in issue #46.

8/21/09: Rick Veitch is interviewed at Newsarama and talks about past & upcoming projects like Alan Moore's "The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic".

5/13/09: Rick Veitch has a beautiful drawing of Swamp Thing with Jesus among his recent commissioned works. Visit his site and also see Swamp Thing meets The Spirit!

5/6/09: Here's a YouTube link to Lisa Angelle's "I Wear Your Love", just because I like it. Is it Swamp Thing related? Well, Lisa is twisting through a swamp; she has white streaks in her hair, which is like the opposite of Abby's; she sang the vocal theme for TV's romantic fantasy Beauty and the Beast.

3/17/09: DC Comics is taking advantage of the popularity of the WATCHMEN film to promote other Alan Moore comics. At the "After Watchmen" Web page, SWAMP THING is featured, and you can even download issue #21 for free! The new reprint collection SAGA OF THE SWAMP THING should not be confused with the original volume of reprints with the same name. (See 11/8/08, below)

1/8/09: You may know of Rick Grimes, a Kubert School classmate of SWAMP THING artists such as Veitch, Bissette, and Totleben. Grimes is mentioned on the cover of issue #55. Well, Ryan Heslin runs a site for Grimes fans at rickgrimesfansite.net.

11/8/08: Alan Moore's SWAMP THING is being reprinted in hardcover for the first time, but what's really significant is that it will include issue #20, which has never been reprinted before! Many people mistakenly think that #21, "The Anatomy Lesson", was Moore's first issue. Release date: February 10, 2009.

10/23/08: I came across this old cute entry at ProgressiveRuin.com about Swamp Thing merchandise.

9/26/08: Adding YouTube links so you can hear more of the songs referenced in the series. ("Rite of Spring" in #34, etc.)

9/25/08: Restored the accidentally deleted info for issue #34 (thanks to the Wayback Machine at www.archive.org)

6/30/08: For fans of the "Pogo" story in SWAMP THING #32, Mr. David Abbot has written a humorous poem based on Poe's "The Raven" and Jane Austen, expressing his opinion of the Bush administration.

6/7/08: Brian Cronin mentioned this site at his Comic Book Resources Urban Legends Revealed column. It's an article about Sting and Constantine. You'll find it about half way down the page.

2/28/08: Various updates, including original cover sketches for issues 26, 42, 55, 56 and 59.

12/21/07: Gary Greenwood's Annotated Final Crisis site is ready for the upcoming epic DC Comics event. Will Swamp Thing play a role? Gary's Annotated Infinite Crisis site is still there, too. Thanks, Gary, for the link to my site.

Merry Christmas to all!

9/14/07: SWAMP THING artist Steve Bissette's Myrant blog has info about the interview Steve did with SWAMP THING artist John Totleben for Bob McLeod's Rough Stuff #4. There you can view Steve's pencil art that Totleben painted for THE COMICS JOURNAL to convince DC Comics to let him do painted covers for SWAMP THING.

8/30/07: Filming is scheduled to begin in September for the movie based on SWAMP THING author Alan Moore's WATCHMEN. Filming of a WATCHMEN movie was originally announced on the inside cover of Swamp Thing #73 in 1988.

6/9/07:Rich Handley's Roots of the Swamp Thing site now has its own domain name:www.swampthingroots.com

2/26/07: Finally got a photo of Rick Veitch on the site, from his recent NY ComiCon appearance

2/17/07: Rich Handley has updated his Roots of the Swamp Thing site with news of a new series featuring Arcane's Un-Men. I wish I had thought of his news column's name: "What's New Bayou?"

1/10/07: Swamp Thing has his own bog blog. Yep. It's unique.

12/2/06: Bob Smith points out that in Swamp Thing #35 there seems to be a reference to a real coal mine fire that happened in Pennsylvania in the 1960's in Centralia, Pennsylvania.

11/27/06: Bob Smith identified the poster of the demon Baal in #25.

11/25/06: Check out FanBoy Radio for their recent interview with Alan Moore!!!

I came across Mike Sterling's blog from last Halloween, and he has a nice "Ten Scary Swamp Thing Moments" post.

9/06: John McDonagh e-mailed me a factoid re: the symbolism of the chainsaw in issue #24.

1/30/06: Scott Rosthauser e-mailed me a correction for issue #24. Says he "I found a comment when I was doing a search using my last name, 'Rosthauser'. Regarding the use of the name in a Swamp Thing issue. I have been a very close friend of John Totleban, one of the artists involved with Swamp Thing since 1972 and it was put there by him to yank my chain."

5/17/05: Off the topic of Swamp Thing, here's a plug related to my other site about the "U.S." graphic novel. Check out Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (No relation to the "Savage Dragon" creator.) Historical figures litter this thriller novel, based on the true story of a serial killer at the Chicago World's Fair - the location which figures prominently in "U.S."

4/14/05: Added summary of the hard-to-find HELLBLAZER #10, explaining what happened to John during the crossover with SWAMP THING #37. This includes page scans of the scene in which Constantine faces Abby and Swampy at a most awkward moment.

4/11/05: Added a scan of the "lost page" from issue 31.

3/23/05: Alan Moore's daughter and her husband are working with The Builth Balkan Crew to help a Romanian orphanage. Info here.

3/17/05: See the new annotations for the Floronic Man story from SECRET ORIGINS #23, which was scripted by SWAMP THING writer Rick Veitch.

2/28/05: The Rutland Herald has an interview with Steve Bissette about who gets credit for creating Constantine.

2/6/05: Alan Moore's old March of the Sinister Ducks song (which he did with his band, The Sinister Ducks) now has a flash animation. This was mentioned on page 2 of issue #25.

1/13/05: DC Comics is soliciting a special trade paperback called VERTIGO: FIRST TASTE, reprinting six Vertigo stories for only $4.99. This includes SWAMP THING #21, as well as reprints of the premiere issues of 100 BULLETS, THE BOOKS OF MAGIC: LIFE DURING WARTIME, DEATH: THE HIGH COST OF LIVING, TRANSMETROPOLITAN, and Y: THE LAST MAN. Vertigo books are suggested for mature readers.

12/14/04: In the latest trailer for the Constantine film, Keanu is not only non-British, but his name is pronounced "ConstanTEEN". John told Chester that it is pronounced "ConstanTYNE" in SWAMP THING #73.

11/3/04: Rick Veitch is writing a mini-series revival of THE QUESTION. Will the character be as cool as but different from Rorshach?

8/16/04: Added a link to the great new Roots of the Swamp Thing site

8/10/04:
Gonzalo Fonseca of Chile has provided some geographic notes about South America in issue 46.

Silver Bullet Comics site has a review of the second Alan Moore SWAMP THING trade paperback.

7/16/04:
The Silver Bullet Comics site has a good review of the first Alan Moore SWAMP THING trade paperback.

SITE UPDATE 7/1/04:
Issue 50 notes restored.
Issue 20 notes done.
New style navigation bar.

MOVIES
New Swamp Thing movie planned. I'm skeptical about the soon-to-be-released Constantine film.

ST NOVELS
Artist John Totleben tells me:

I have just agreed to do three painted covers for three Swamp Thing novels that Steve Bissette will be writing for Byron Preiss. Preiss has still not gotten all the paperwork from DC, but it looks good. Don't know when these will be out though.