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Podcast: The Comics Canon
Episode: Episode 172 – Swamp Thing: American Gothic (Part 1)
Description: (Content warning: References to suicide and hate crime) What better way to round out the spook-tacular month of October than with a werewolf, ghosts, zombies, a serial killer and underwater vampires? All that and the debut of everyone's favorite Sting impersonator in the first half of Alan Moore's ambitious American Gothic storyline from The Saga of The Swamp Thing (issues 37-42 and 44-45), published by DC Comics! Everyone's favorite muck monster travels across the U.S. encountering an unsettling series of supernatural horrors. But are they all part of a larger, more sinister design? Can...