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| Title: | "Growth Patterns" |
| Volume: | 2 |
| number: | 37 |
| Cover date: | June, 1985 |
| Cover price: | .75 |
| Publisher: | DC Comics |
| Credits | |
| Executive editor: | Dick Giordano |
| Writers: | Alan Moore |
| Pencilers: | Rick Veitch |
| Inkers: | John Totleben |
| Cover artists: | Steve Bissette; John Totleben |
| Cover inker: | Steve Bissette; John Totleben |
| Cover colorist: | Steve Bissette; John Totleben |
| Colorists: | Tatjana Wood |
| Letterers: | John Costanza |
| Editors: | Karen Berger |
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- "My name's John Constantine, and I think we could do each other a favor. Mind if I smoke?"
- ―John Constantine
"Growth Patterns" is the story title to the thirty-seventh issue of the second Swamp Thing ongoing comic book series published by DC Comics. The story was written by Alan Moore with artwork by Rick Veitch and John Totleben. The story was colored by Tatjana Wood and lettered by John Costanza. This issue shipped with a June, 1985 cover date and carried a cover price of 75 cents per copy (US).
Synopsis[]
John Constantine is an occult investigator from England. He learns that something large is set to occur in the world of the supernatural and sets about learning all he can about it. But his search proves frustrating as he moves among his contacts. No one has a great deal of information for him, but to say that "He's coming back". One source thinks that he is a living black hole. Another believes that it is the old one, Cthulhu. An old nun even believes it to be Satan.
Meanwhile, Abby has been slowly helping to nurse the Swamp Thing back to health. A mere bud of an entity, she has been treating the diminutive plant with water and pesticides. It is an excruciatingly slow process and over the course of days, He regains only half of his overall strength at this point. Day by day he's growing more parts of himself.
John Constantine is in the apartment of Emma, who he departs with after waking up to go find Swamp Thing.
He eventually finds Abby and the Swamp Thing. He chides the Swamp Thing for his ignorance and informs him that he is the last remaining plant elemental. He has the ability to extend his essence through any vegetative matter – with the ability to instantly teleport nearly any place he chooses to on Earth. Desperate to know more, the Swamp Thing pleads with Constantine to stay and tell him what he knows. Claiming that he has other places to be, John leaves them, but before he does, he admits that he plans to be in Rosewood, just outside Chicago, in a week's time, and that he would explain more if they were to meet there.
Meanwhile, Emma instinctively draws a terrible picture of a disfigured man. The being, known as an Invunche, comes to life and the terror-stricken artist pitches herself through her studio window to her death. There's also a montage of a few other evil acts from the other contacts that Constantine encountered.
Back in Houma, Swamp Thing seems to have completely regrown, and is pondering. Abby half-jokingly brings up the prospect of a honeymoon for them, since their "communion". He is vaguely recalling the name "Rosewood", and he is too wrapped-up in that train of thought to pay any mind to Abby's "honeymoon" proposal.
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