Swamp Things Podcast
Episodes
S307 "The Secret Life of Plants"
30 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"Don't worry, mate. Johnny's on the job." After escaping a trap set by the Parliament of Trees Swamp Thing reunites with Abby in an issue that can onl...
S306 "Wild Thing"
17 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"The renegade felt the name for his own essential truth slip out on the tides of his aura. 'Duality' he said. But he did not understand." A new wild S...
S3E05 "Reflections in a Golden Eye"
01 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"It's like my old mentor, the General, used to say: 'Business can be crueler than love or war. To that I might add 'All's fair."" Rob Veatch returns...
S3E04 "The Wisdom of Solomon"
24 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Just what the world needs, eh? Another grotty dim-witted clod of a film to add to the cultural wasteland." Rob Veatch returns to discuss Swamp Thing ...
S3E03 "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Sounds great, Piggy! But you're wrong about one thing. These paparazzi photos? I happen to know they were faked. See, Wonder Girl has this delicate l...
S3E02 "Distant Cousins"
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"The Publishers and the so-called Purveyors of "Fine Art" have conspired to keep the public in the dark about the true potential of comics!" Rick Veit...
S3E01 "(We Could Be) Diving for Pearls"
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Swamp Thing is dead!" We kick off the third season of Swamp Things which will be focussed on the Rick Veitch run. And maybe it won't end on recrimina...
Bonus Episode - Interview with Stephen R. Bissette
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It was my great pleasure to welcome Stephen R. Bissette to the podcast for a wide ranging interview covering most of his career. Despite some subpar a...
S2E13 "The Leviathan Conspiracy"
22 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"If there is truly a heaven, sweet Linda... I pray to God you're happy there... And there must be a heaven... because I know there is a hell... I'm li...
S2E12 "The Eternity Man"
17 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"Home..? Who'd have ever thought that one day... I would call this dismal bog home..." Len Wein and Nestor Redondo explore the cursed, never ending li...
S2E11 "The Conqueror Worms"
14 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"How long he has stood here, gazing sadly at the ruptured ruins of the mouldering barn that was once his private laboratory, he cannot remember-- nor ...
S2E10 "The Man Who Would Not Die"
23 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"For the screamng is loud and long and frightening --- and laced wth maniacal laughter that sends snakes skittering into the underbrush --- night-bi...
S2E09 "The Stalker from Beyond"
04 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Don't play so high an' mighty with me, Cable. I'll bet there's something in your life you've felt exactly the same way about." This month, Ryan Lower...
S2E08 "The Lurker in Tunnel 13"
29 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"There wasn't any natural way to restore the mines... so my pappy... he started checking into unnatural ways... the occult... and the supernatural.....
S2E07 "The Night of the Bat"
22 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"This man...will just keep coming...until one of us...is dead...!" In a very special episode, legendary comics artist Kelley Jones comes on the podcas...
S2E06 "A Clockwork Horror"
17 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"'They are incapable of raising their hands against their neighbors.' Those were the little clockmaker's words. But their meaning is soon drowned out ...
S2E05 "The Last of the Ravenwind Witches"
14 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"You looked after me... when I needed help... Now it's my turn to look after you!" Samantha Kacho returns to the podcast to discuss issue #5 of the or...
S2E04 "Monster on the Moors"
01 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Somhow, the fear-filled scream that drifts in from the bog is not totally unexpectedby those in the ancient manor -- but all heads turn at the soun...
S2E03 "The Patchwork Man"
25 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"There wasn't much left of you, you realize -- I had to improvise my repairs from the materials at hand! Here -- I'll show you!" With issue #3 of Swam...
S2E02 "The Man Who Wanted Forever"
24 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"Forgive my manner of summoning you, my friend, but I could not chance your refusing my invitation! You see, I have a proposition to make you. A most ...
S2E01 "Dark Genesis"
31 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"They will be back... the ones that killed me... Ferrett and the others will be back... and I will be waiting!" Welcome to season 2 of Swamp Things wh...
Episode 50 "Return of the Good Gumbo"
18 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Laissez les bontemps rouler. Please. For us. For all of us." We've reached the end of Alan Moore's run with issue 64 "Return of the Good Gumbo". Alan...
Episode 49 "Loose Ends (Reprise)"
04 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Amongst the keels of rocks he thinks of her, and of the men who'd kept her from him... of a love too long unconsummated and unfinished wars." Swamp T...
Episode 48 "Wavelength"
20 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"I saw the gods in their 'final' conflicts, tearing their mythical worlds asunder in orgy after meaningless orgy of violence..." Justin Kowalski joins...
Episode 47 "All Flesh is Grass"
06 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"and finally he decides that yes, it's blasphemy, of course it's blasphemy..and suggests it anyway." Chris Clow comes on the podcast to discuss one of...
Episode 46 "Loving the Alien"
16 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"He was beautiful. He was other. He was of my flesh." A brand new format and a particularly experimental issue #60 entitled "Loving the Alien" greeted...
Episode 45 "Reunion"
02 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Why eons of torment shan't begin to settle that debt. I'm told you're still accumulating interest!" Stephen Bissette, aided by artists Rick Veitch an...
Episode 44 "Exiles"
19 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We Terrans may not be much on the eight basic strategies of aerial inertia tactics but we are complete bastards." Chris Clow joins to discuss Swamp Th...
Episode 43 "Mysteries in Space"
05 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Why can't these people ever handle their own problems?" Chris Clow guests on the podcast to discuss Swamp Thing #57 entitled "Mysteries in Space" as ...
Episode 42 "My Blue Heaven"
21 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Everything is blue." Swamp Thing lives in Swamp Thing #56 entitled "My Blue Heaven". But, the new life Swamp Thing finds himself in has hidden danger...
Episode 41 "Earth to Earth"
07 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"If you wear black, then kindly irritating strangers will touch your arm consolingly and inform you that the world keeps turning." A funeral is held i...
Episode 40 "The Flowers of Romance"
17 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"All we have in common is the horror in our lives." Abby is left to pick up the pieces of her life and Liz Treymayne's in Swamp Thing #54 titled "The ...
Episode 39 "The Garden of Earthly Delights - Part 2"
03 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"The war is won. Gotham just hasn't realized it yet" We conclude the double sized Swamp Thing #53 entitled "The Garden of Earthly Delights" as Swamp T...
Episode 38 "The Garden of Earthly Delights - Part 1"
19 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Can we talk?" We kick off our discussion of the double sized Swamp Thing #53 entitled "The Garden of Earthly Delights" as Batman battles Swamp Thing ...
Episode 37 "Natural Consequences"
05 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"You can shoot the animals in the forest but you cannot shoot the forest." The podcast returns as Swamp Thing arrives in Gotham to free Abby in issue ...
Sad News
26 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Memoriam: John Bierly
Episode 36 "Home Free"
20 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Besides, I've got this really ace joke I've been dying to tell you..."How do you baffle a vegetable?" American Gothic is over, but the return to Abby...
Episode 35 "The End - Part 2"
04 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Then will you answer my question? Little thing, will you tell me the purpose of evil?" At last we reach the end of American Gothic courtesy of Moore,...
Episode 34 "The End - Part 1"
19 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"The man who started me upon this dark trail promised me answers... But the answers seem black and unbearable" At last we reach the end of American Go...
Episode 33 "The Summoning"
28 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"The war shall burn white-hot, and should we fall.. then madness without end shall claim us all." In Swamp Thing #49, the bird has flown and Constanti...
Episode 32 "A Murder of Crows"
13 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"You are amongst your enemies. You are in a place of long and cruel death. The Brujeria welcomes you, Senor Constantine." At long last, Constantine an...
Episode 31 "The Parliament of Trees"
28 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"Where is evil in all the wood?" Robert and John, along with Swamp Thing, ponder the riddle of the Parliament of Trees in Swamp thing #47, by Moore, W...
Episode30 "Revelations"
21 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"It was the best of times. It was the worst of times, and it was all of them at once. It was the end... and in the end, there were not words enough to...
Episode 29 "Ghost Dance"
14 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"Bang. Bang. Bang. The sound of hammers must never stop." The Winchester Mystery House provides the inspiration for Swamp Thing #45. Alan Moore and St...
Episode 28 "Bogeymen"
07 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"How can they call me callous when I remember every single pair of eyes?" Swamp Thing #44, by Moore, Bissette, Randall, and Totleben, explores America...
Episode 27 "Windfall"
30 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"There's no need. There's no need for all this fear." In Swamp Thing #43 entitled Windfall, a fallen yam from Swamp Thing provides a window on his wor...
Episode 26 "Strange Fruit"
23 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"That which is buried is not gone. That which is planted will grow." In Swamp Thing #42 the violence of slavery and its continued memory and trauma ar...
Episode 25 "Southern Change"
16 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"What do the dead people talk about and which voices are the loudest?" In Swamp Thing #41, Alan Moore, Stephen Bissette, and Alfredo Alcala tackle the...
Episode 24 "The Curse"
09 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"The Muzak system hums "Moon River" beneath its breath and she wonders briefly why women's lives should be punctuated with blood." American Gothic c...
Episode 23 "The Jungle Line"
02 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"The most powerful creature on the planet has gone mad." Robert and John discuss DC Comics Presents #85 entitled "The Jungle Line" courtesy of Moore, ...
Episode 22 "Fish Story"
26 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"This is their neighborhood and I have come to deliver a blow from which it will not recover." John and Robert discuss Swamp Thing #39 entitled "Fish ...
Episode 21 "Still Waters"
19 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"There... now we're both in over our heads." American Gothic begins as Swamp Thing journeys to Rosewood, IL, the home of a community of underwater vam...
Episode 20 "Growth Patterns"
12 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"I'm a nasty piece of work, chief. Ask anybody." John Constantine makes his first memorable appearance as John and Robert discuss The Saga of the Swam...
Episode 19 "The Nukeface Papers, Part Two"
05 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"Heads up, America... here I come!" Robert and John deal with The Saga of the Swamp Thing #36 entitled "The Nukeface Papers, Part Two" this episode co...
Episode 18 "The Nukeface Papers, Part One"
29 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"I'm entitled! I'm an American citizen." John and Robert join Swamp Thing in discovering the man behind those words, Nukeface, in the latest episode e...
Episode 17 "Rite of Spring"
22 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"Spring came and everything in the world woke up." Robert and John discuss a very intimate communal journey between Abigail and Swamp Thing in The Sag...
Episode 16 "Abandoned Houses"
15 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"Mysteries are wonders that you can ponder and share. Secrets are a burden to carry alone!" John and Robert follow Abigail as she meets some familiar ...
Episode 15 "Pog"
08 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"Trifles. Trifles light as air." The swamp has some familiar looking alien visitors in The Saga of the Swamp Thing #32 entitled "Pog". What's the resi...
Episode 14 "Down Amongst the Dead Men" - Part 2
01 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"We approach the last place that can truly be called a place." John and Robert wrap up their discussion of Swamp Thing Annual #2 courtesy of Moore, Bi...
Episode 13: "Down Amongst the Dead Men" - Part 1
24 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"I would follow you... I would follow you even there." Alan Moore, Stephen Bissette, and John Totleben rework Dante's The Divine Comedy into the epic ...
Episode 12 "The Brimstone Ballet"
17 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Robert and John witness one last dance between Swamp Thing and Anton Arcane in The Saga of the Swamp Thing #31 entitled "The Brimstone Ballet". Love, ...
Episode 11 "A Halo of Flies"
10 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Robert and John grapple with revelations that Matt Cable has been possessed by Abigail's uncle Anton Arcane. And does he have a tale to tell. And evil...
Episode 10 "Love and Death"
03 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Abigail Cable has been through a lot. Things get a lot worse as John and Robert wade into The Saga of the Swamp Thing #29 entitled "Love and Death". I...
Bonus: Swamp Thing Pilot Episode
01 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
By popular demand, John and Robert take a look at the pilot for the new Swamp Thing show on the DC Universe streaming platform in a special bonus epis...
Episode 9 "The Burial"
27 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Robert and John take a break from the main overriding narrative with The Saga of the Swamp Thing #28 entitled "The Burial". Alan Moore is joined by gu...
Episode 8 "By Demons Driven!"
20 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Monkey King has run wild in Elysium Lawns, and it's up to Swamp Thing, the demon Etrigan, and Abigail Cable to contain him. And, somewhere, Matt C...
Episode 7 "A Time of Running"
13 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
John and Robert continue their journey through Alan Moore's Swamp Thing run with issue #26 of The Saga of the Swamp Thing entitled "A Time of Running"...
Episode 6 "The Sleep of Reason"
06 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
John and Robert embark on a new storyline courtesy of Alan Moore, Stephen Bissette, and John Totleben involving the arrival of a devilish stranger, a ...
Episode 5 "Roots"
29 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Robert and John wrap up Alan Moore's first Swamp Thing storyline as they discuss issue #24 of The Saga of the Swamp Thing entitled "Roots". Reader: Jo...
Episode 4 "Another Green World"
22 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
With the latest episode John and Robert follow Swamp Thing into the Green as they discuss issue #23 of The Saga of the Swamp Thing" entitled "Another ...
Episode 3 "Swamped"
15 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Robert and John catch up on the fallout from "The Anatomy Lesson" as Abby Cable, Matt Cable, and Dr. Jason Woodrue catch up with Swam...
Episode 2 "The Anatomy Lesson"
08 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
John and Robert are introduced to Dr. Jason Woodrue and big changes to Swamp Thing as they look at issue #21 of The Saga of the Swamp Thing entitled "...
Episode 1 "Loose Ends"
01 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Robert and John kick off the podcast starting with issue #20 of The Saga of the Swamp Thing entitled "Loose Ends". Reader this episode: John Bierly Or...