Swamp Thing
strangefour with the Pleiades
strangefour with the Pleiades
strangefour@retro.pizza

Well okay Swamp Thing wasn't the first plant monster out for revenge in comics. But he was the first one with a long running series at a major publisher that lasted until today right? Right?
The aren't two things from the swamp from the summer of 1971 are there??
There are.
#Monsterdon #SwampThing

Bluedepth

Swamp Payphone. Brought to you by AT&T... YOU WILL…

ano yatsu
ano yatsu
yatsu@retro.pizza

so this australian/german/french guy has a bunch of attractive women working for him who all apparently spend their time telling him how amazing he is, and instead he's worried about this formula and the seventh notebook. i mean okay, but.

#monsterdon

jonny (good kind)
jonny (good kind)
jonny@neuromatch.social

@jsadow incorrect. far too prescriptive. protagonists needing to hunt is far from universal. they are often hunted, ambivalent, or become the antagonists. the only thing that is required after the monster introduction point is that the monster do monster things and everything beyond that is the domain of subgenre #monsterdon

wohali
wohali
wohali@timeloop.cafe

You should sleep sir.

I can't. It was all so near. I almost had the lyrics down.

I'm the operator with my pocket... confabulator? Laser razor? Big Gator?

Damn it I am so close!

#monsterdon

jonny (good kind)
jonny (good kind)
jonny@neuromatch.social

@jmelesky oh yes of course. i would count foreshadowing as monster introduction, but in those cases you need to take care that the mosnter has enough time to do things and be all cool and stuff before it either destroys everything or is destroyed #monsterdon

Floaty Birb
Floaty Birb
floatybirb

The next day, the girl is trying to escape with her secret notes, but the rambos catch her and take a boat out to drown her in the swamp, I guess because shooting her was too efficient.

The lead rambo dumps her into the water and appears to drown her, but then his rowboat is overturned by a SURPRISE SWAMP THING. They try to use guns against the swamp thing, but its not very effective. Meanwhile, Swampy has dragged Agent Big Hair to the shore.

Rob Ricci
Rob Ricci
ricci@discuss.systems

I'm trying to come up with a scenario in which the twigs on the commandos' hats are actually going to come in useful for hiding, and drawing a blank

#monsterdon

Bluedepth

Now, for anyone heavy into DC, Swamp Thing is in the swamp. He's literally knee-deep in his power. Frikken unstoppable almost. The power of The Green.

jonny (good kind)
jonny (good kind)
jonny@neuromatch.social

we have swamp thing!!!! right on cue. but also we have no non-monster protagonists. so our only choice is to hope that the swamp thing overcomes the militia and is accepted into society #monsterdon

cs
cs
cs@mastodon.sdf.org

Those mercenaries are a bunch of knuckleheads. The only reason they made it this far is because of the inside guy. #Monsterdon