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jlroberson ([info]jlroberson) wrote in [info]scans_daily,
@ 2009-10-30 10:02:00

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Current music:Philip Glass/Kronos Quartet, "Dracula"
Entry tags:char: swamp thing/alec holland, creator: alan moore, creator: john totleben, creator: steve bissette, genre: horror, publisher: dc comics, theme: horror week

Swamp Thing 44: The Bogeyman
In many ways, Bissette's finest--and most "Bissette-ey"--sequence in the whole run.






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[info]volksjager
2009-10-30 08:05 pm UTC (link)
This guy shows up at the serial killer con in Sandman right ?

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[info]jlroberson
2009-10-30 08:23 pm UTC (link)
Nah, he dies. Horribly. And then he hears voices that may be those of his victims, which makes it very Solomon Grundy now that I think of it.

But then, there are a lot of connections between Moore's Swampy and the concept of Grundy.

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[info]icon_uk
2009-10-30 11:26 pm UTC (link)
Someone shows up CLAIMING to be the Boogeyman, but has the misfortune to run into the Corinthian, who is quite aware of what happened to the real Boogeyman (They sort of share an obsessisional trait after all), and the imposter (who was by no means a nice person) comes to a REALLY unpleasant end, as the Corinthian, Nimrod (Who guts and fillet people) and the Doctor (Who flays people alive) "take it in turns" with him

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[info]houbanaut
2009-10-30 11:59 pm UTC (link)
The Cereal Convention also has a cross-reference to Hellblazer, with special guest speaker the Family Man failing to show up--because he's been killed (or otherwise eliminated, I forget the details) by John Constantine.

Are any of the other serial killers from anywhere, or are they original to Gaiman?

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[info]icon_uk
2009-10-31 02:12 am UTC (link)
I believe the rest were new for the story, and aside from the Corinthian and, just recently, Funland, none of them have been seen since.

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[info]earthelemental
2009-10-31 11:01 am UTC (link)
The Boogeyman returned briefly, alongside Dennis Barclay, as Arcane's zombies in issue #125.

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[info]earthelemental
2009-10-31 11:02 am UTC (link)
Swamp Thing #125, I mean...

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[info]jlroberson
2009-10-31 06:46 am UTC (link)
The black guy who talks about how he hates the whole damn world including himself is based, at least in what he says, on Carl Panzram.(who Joe Coleman did a great story about in BLAB) Don't know about the others, but Finland did show up again recently, I think.

The Family Man was indeed killed by JC.

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[info]20thcenturyvole
2009-10-30 08:12 pm UTC (link)
Oooh, crossover! In the 'cereal convention' story from Sandman, this is the guy that journalist was impersonating. So neat to see the original story.

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[info]jlroberson
2009-10-30 08:30 pm UTC (link)
Correct! And y'know, I'd totally forgotten that till you mentioned it.

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[info]icon_uk
2009-10-30 11:27 pm UTC (link)
Loved this as a horror story back in the day, still do, the use of the recurring eye motif whenever a number is mentioned is simple, and horrible and memorable as hell.

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