Comic Title: Absolute Swamp Thing by Alan Moore Vol. 3 HC
Publisher: DC
Imprint: Vertigo
Cover Date: 2022
On Sale Date: March 15, 2022 Direct Market Date March 16, 2022
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, March 16, 2022

Direct Market Date October 26, 2021
Source: DC Connect, #10

Direct Market Date November 23, 2021
Source: Panels, September 2021

Cover Price: $99.99
Page Count: 400

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "Reunion"
Pages: 23

Feature(s):
Swamp Thing (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Steve R. Bissette
Penciller: Rick Veitch
Inker: Alfredo P. Alcala
Letterer: John Costanza
Colorist: Tatjana Wood

Reprinted From:
Swamp Thing #59 (1987)

Feature Character(s)

• Swamp Thing (no appearance)

Supporting Character(s)

• Abby Cable (first post-Crisis appearance; next appearance in Swamp Thing #61)
• Patchwork Man (first post-Crisis appearance; dies in this story; last appearance in Swamp Thing #83; no further appearances)
• Chester Williams (first post-Crisis appearance; next appearance in Swamp Thing #61)
• Liz Tremayne (first post-Crisis appearance; next appearance in Swamp Thing #63)

Villain(s)

• Anton Arcane (first post-Crisis appearance; last appearance in Swamp Thing #82; next appearance in Swamp Thing #76)
• Several unnamed demons (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Miss Claiborne (caretaker at Spanish Acres; next appearance in Swamp Thing #93)
• Townclock Jacobson and his family (no further appearances)
• Amy Tillsdale (a resident at Spanish Acres; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Three of Chester's friends (no further appearances)
• Gator (a caretaker at Spanish Acres; no further appearances)

Comments:
Swamp Thing's only appearance in this story is a cameo in Patchwork Man's memories.

Synopsis:
Since the disappearance of Swamp Thing, Abby Cable taken a job as a caretaker at Spanish Acres, a home for the elderly. When one of the residents dies, Abby leaves work questioning whether she can handle the depressing job. She receives a phone call from Chester indicating that a monster was recently seen in the swamps.

Abby and Chester visit the swamp in hopes that Swamp Thing is alive. Instead Abby finds her father Gregori Arcane, the Patchwork Man. Gregori has been stumbling through the swamps, confused, and looking for Abby. However, he does not want her to see him as the monster that Anton Arcane made him. Gregori flees into the rainy night and falls apart. In the morning Abby finds his lifeless body, but his head is never found.