The Unsuccessfully Repressed Past in Alan Moore’s “Swamp Thing”

A few years back, after reading Qiana J. Whitted’s essay, “Of Slaves and Other Swamp Things: Black Southern History as Comic Book Horror,” I knew it was time for me to finally grab a few issues of Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing run from the 1980s and read them. So, I started with volume #3 which collects issues #35-#42. I chose this volume because issues #41-#42 take place in South…