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"Revelations"
Swamp Thing Vol 2 46
Swamp Thing
Title: "Revelations"
Storyline: Crisis on Infinite Earths
Volume: 2
number: 46
Cover date: March, 1986
Cover price: .75
Publisher: DC Comics
Credits
Executive editor: Dick Giordano
Writers: Alan Moore
Pencilers: Steve Bissette
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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"We're on a satellite. It belonged to a bloke called the Monitor. He's dead now. Can't see this place lasting long without him, somehow."
John Constantine

"Revelations" is the story title to the forty-sixth issue of the second Swamp Thing ongoing comic book series published by DC Comics. The story was written by Alan Moore with artwork by Steve Bissette and John Totleben. The story was colored by Tatjana Wood and lettered by John Costanza. This issue shipped with a March, 1986 cover date and carried a cover price of 75 cents per copy (US).

Synopsis[]

The Swamp Thing, John Constantine, Benjamin Cox and Frank North stand in amazement as the world about them is afire with chaos. Beings and creatures from various time periods fill the city. 18th century cavalry soldiers engage in combat with space men, while dinosaurs terrorize back alleys and a futuristic car nearly runs down a tribe of Neanderthals and a flock of Dodo birds. Constantine knows the situation is serious, but he is more concerned about what will happen following the Crisis.

John and the Swamp Thing are mysteriously teleported through space to the satellite of the Monitor. The Monitor is dead, but his satellite is filled with various members of the superhero community, some from parallel dimensions. John gives Swamp Thing a truncated explanation of the Multiverse, and then introduces him to the Monitor's successor, Alexander Luthor. He is the one responsible for bringing them here. Luthor understands that the Crisis will have an effect on the spiritual world as well as the material one, and he is relying on the Swamp Thing to attend to these specific matters. Swamp Thing is confused and does not really understand how he could possibly help.

John and he return to Earth, and John tells him about an existing threat beyond that of the Crisis – the Brujería. The Brujería are a cult of South American warlocks whose goals are nothing short of the destruction of Heaven. Recalling their brutality strikes a chord within Constantine, and he emphasizes how dangerous the Brujería's actions really are. He tells Swamp Thing that the Brujería have been slowly achieving their goals by using a macabre killer called an Invunche.

The Swamp Thing merges with the Green in order to get a sense of what John and Luthor have been telling him. Picking up random perceptions throughout the ether, he does in fact realize that the psychic plane is in just as much danger as the material world.

In London, England, Sister Anne-Marie isn't able to locate Judith. On her way back to her hotel, she exits a train onto the wrong platform. She grows nervous and knows that a threat is looming over her. The Invunche appears and kills her, tearing the cross from her neck.

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  • The Phantom Stranger makes reference to the Newcastle exorcism from "last winter". John comments that he was in a "loony bin for a few weeks". The details behind the Newcastle exorcism were chronicled in Hellblazer, Vol. 1 #11, albeit with some retconning. The exorcism actually took place in 1978, not the previous winter, and John spent two years at the Ravenscar Secure Hospital as a result of it, as opposed to the few weeks referenced in this issue.
  • The city where much of the cross-time chaos is taking place is unidentified, but it is likely Manhattan.
  • The Wolf-Men that are seen attacking the woman in the alley on page 11 are likely the Wolves of Earth-AD continuity, though this is never confirmed.
  • When the Swamp Thing and Constantine first enters the Monitor's satellite they observe how five Earths are about to merge, but at this point in Crisis issue #5 only two Earths are about to merge. The three others are not added until the end of Crisis issue #6. This inconsistency has no impact on the story, though.

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