"I just... I just flashed on this stuff... this fruit. It's like some kinda cosmic litmus paper, right? You eat it, an' it tells you whether you're a bad person or a good person."
"Windfall" is the story title to the forty-third issue of the second Swamp Thing ongoing comic book series published by DC Comics. The story was written by Alan Moore with artwork by Stan Woch. Steve Bissette and John Totleben composed the cover art for this issue with inks by Ron Randall and coloring by Tatjana Wood. John Totleben and Tatjana Wood also provided the ink work and coloring for the interior pages as well. The issue was lettered by John Costanza and edited by Karen Berger. This issue shipped with a December, 1985 cover date and carried a cover price of 75 cents per copy (US).
Chester Williams, a naturalist and occasional drug dealer, retrieves one of the tubers which Swamp Thing had grown on his body, and dropped to the ground. He divides the tuber into three parts. One part goes to his friend's dying wife Sandy, who eats it and psychedelically becomes one with the world before dying of cancer. She marvels at the intricate beauty of life and the universe, and is able to let go of her fear of dying. The second part goes to an uncouth drug abuser, who relives the horrors of Swamp Thing's life and dies when he is hit by a truck. Believing the plant to be "some kinda cosmic litmus paper" capable of revealing a person's morality, Chester reluctantly decides against trying the third portion himself.
