Swamp Thing is one of the best comics in DC's library, and the man chiefly responsible for that success is Alan Moore.
Moore pretty much re-worked the entire mythology behind the character when he took the reigns on the series in the eighties, and began by introducing something known as the Parliament of Trees. They are said to have existed since before man walked the Earth, and are all modelled on various different generations of life to have occurred throughout Earth's evolutionary history, with one of the oldest sentient trees among them being a trilobite, which existed over 500 million years ago.
Located deep within the Amazon rainforest, the Parliament are a collective conscious of sentient plant-life that stand watch over the environment, and who count Swamp Thing among their members. As of the New 52 there are now also other elemental parliaments on Earth, representing the ocean, decay, fungus, and even rock itself.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
