Swamp Thing Illustration from Kevin Gentilcore

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Swamp Thing Artwork from Kevin Gentilcore
by Rich Handley
Sept. 24, 2010

Writer and artist Kevin Gentilcore, whose unpublished Swamp Thing script will soon be posted on this site (click here for more information about that work), graciously sent me the following illustration of everyone's favorite Bog God, as a thank-you for a favor I did for him (without getting into details, it involved the deposing of a military dictatorship and the establishment of a colony and weapons platform on the Moon). Thanks, Kevin—if your Swamp Thing scripting is half as good as your Swamp Thing illustrating, then I can't wait to read it!

UPDATED, Sept. 25, 2010: And it turns out... his scripting IS that good. Check it out!

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