The Legend of the Swamp Thing: Halloween Spectacular #1, gave a new look to a green that is quite similar to Krakoa.
The Legend of the Swamp Thing: The Halloween Spectacular #1, James Tynion IV and Christian Ward’s “Age Of Discovery” can tell some new stories of ecological horror and this time story is going to be a past avatar of Green who was a sentient island, some journal pages of a young boy is going to tell the story. The creator of this journal Diego Garcia Jimenez joins a crew of conquistadors who has a motive to discover a new world but in this search for this new world, they unwittingly get stuck on the Swamp Thing island.
As the crew searches the island, the island himself takes them down one by one, in the end, Diego is the only one who somehow manages to stay alive. But in the end, Island consumes Diego as well.
Swamp Thing Island Is Beautiful
The sentient island avatar of green has covered himself with the mask of Swamp Thing, and its abilities bear a striking resemblance to the new home of Marvel’s X-Men, the sentient island of Krakoa. However, Krakoa can produce food, shelter, and Medicine for inhabitants, but somewhere it is not able to tick the Defence column. Swamp Thing island is bountifully full, and in this way is put to shame with Swamp Thing island’s ability to defend itself from unwanted invaders, and its overall sentience.
In Len Wein and Dave Cockrum’s “Deadly Genesis” from Giant-Size X-Men #1, Krakoa has shown its ability to defend himself from the invaders, as when the new look X-Men encountered Krakoa and met some invaders from the future. Krakoa was unable to save itself so he was relied on the X-Men team to save itself. But on the other hand, Swamp Thing island able to consume invader to save itself, in the early story skeletons clearly shows that the crew was not the only one who tried to invade. The conquistadors meet a similar end as they are turned into plants and become one with the green and the island.
In defense of Krakoa, we have learned much about its history throughout the new X-Men run and learned it is only part of a former whole that benefits from a strong relationship with the mutant community, when combined with its other half the island would likely have a better defense system. Contrarily, Swamp Thing island does not need inhabitants and seems to exist solely in defense of the green, similar to its future successor, as it recognizes the effects humans have on the green it defends.
