Levi Kamei, an Indian-American, is the new Swamp Thing for no reason - why is he turning into Swamp Thing, how did he get chosen? Don’t ask this book, ‘cos it don’t know! Get ready for the most imaginative storyline ever: Swamp Thing Levi’s gotta fight a monster in a desert. Wow. And then, in the ever-dismal Future State line, there’s a two-parter where Swamp Thing and other swampies gotta fight a generic evil government agency in a generic post-apocalyptic setting. Let’s get ready to slumber with Swamp Thing, Volume 1: Becoming Really Tired of Terrible Swamp Thing Comics!
Ram V must have the best PR ever because all I hear about this writer is how amazing he is, but, having read his Catwoman and now Swamp Thing, he most certainly is not amazing - he’s not even a half-decent writer. This might be the worst Swamp Thing comic I’ve ever read.
It’s just so boring. Levi’s not an interesting character, he’s your average everyman protagonist, I didn’t care about his arbitrary selection as the new Swamp Thing (I’m sure it has nothing do with corporate diversity policies), and nothing he does - whether fighting a stupid monster or learning about the Green from Poison Ivy and Alec Holland, who I guess has “died” at some point in the recent past - was remotely compelling.
I don’t know what Future State is about (some kind of Elseworlds-type drivel?) so I don’t know why the world has fallen apart in the two-part story here but it doesn’t really matter because the storyline is two factions butting heads while Ram V weaves in a tedious Anatomy Lesson-esque sequence in between ‘splosions.
Oh and there’s a villain with a name that’s a seemingly-pointless play on former US President Woodrow Wilson’s name, Woodrue Wilson, who’s doing a Palpatine impression. It’s all so unimpressively derivative. I didn’t think anything could be as dull as the preceding main storyline until I read this Future State pap.
No clue who would find this most dreary of comics appealing so I’ll just suggest that everyone ignore the totally unjustified hype around Ram V and definitely avoid Swamp Thing, Volume 1: Becoming Sleepy.
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