ILLUSTRATING A BAYOU BEHEMOTH -- "SINKING INTO THE SOIL... I SURRENDER EDEN'S WATER TO THE PLANTS AROUND ME..."
PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on the four phases, preliminary & published cover art to "Swamp Thing" Vol. 2 #102, artwork by Simon "Biz" Bisley. December, 1990. DC Comics.
"Knotted eyes…and limbs of ash…coil with warmth…as Eyam's winter recedes…his roots tasting home. Exposed now give days to Eden's water of Communion… clinging as dew inside me as we traveled here… my senses are now heightened to the minds all about me… singing with joy for a lost voice restored. But I sense also fear… of what I may have awakened… a truce perhaps shattered… with a prisoner freed. The name "Matango" rustles… in the air… in their leaves… their whispers echoing behind me… as I turn to go home. Sinking into the soil… I surrender Eden's water to the plants around me… asking them to pass it from one to another… to withhold from drinking it as it flows through their roots… From the Amazon to Panama… up from Mexico and Texas… my spirit stays with the water… guiding its journey… through the highway of Green leading back to my home."
-- SWAMP THING (opening monologue, story by Doug Wheeler)
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STWG Prompt: Pisces
A magazine slapped down onto the table and Eddie dropped into his seat just a moment later. "Gentlemen! We enter into a new month, it is time for the ritual."
"The ritual," Dougie and Jeff echoed, rehearsed.
"Not the ritual," Gareth groaned, stabbing at his lunch. "It's going to be the same as last month, it always is."
"...what's the ritual?" Lucas asked, saying it slowly like Eddie might yell at him for asking.
"Oh, horoscopes!" Eddie opened the magazine with a grin, paging through it and clicking his tongue. "Hopefully no plagues are written in the stars."
"Horoscopes." Mike looked at him flatly. They'd only been sitting at the Hellfire Club table for a week now, and in that week, horoscopes hadn't been mentioned once. "You believe in that shit?"
"Nah. My mama loved 'em though. And it's kinda fun." He tapped the magazine on the table and cleared his throat. "We enter Libra season, may it be prosperous for our resident Libras!" He gestured to Gareth and Jeff. "It says here that Love is within reach! You just need to be brave enough to grasp it."
Gareth glanced at Jeff and scoffed. "Total bull."
Jeff grinned. "I don't know. Eddie, is this your little ploy to confess your long buried feelings for me?" He fluttered his eyelashes and blew a kiss."
"You want to be my type so bad it almost makes me love you," Eddie teased as he leaned in just a little closer.
Dustin balked and Mike had gone pink, staring down at his sandwich and refusing to look up from it. Gareth rolled his eyes again and gestured to the boys. "What are you guys? What are your signs?"
"How am I supposed to know that?" Lucas still seemed a little confused. "Is it like... by month? My birthday's in April."
"Early or late? What day?" Eddie tapped at the pages. "That'll make you either an Aries or a Taurus."
"The 8th. Early."
"Aries! According to your horoscope, you'll need to be brave and face your fears in the coming month. An emotional cold front is coming your way, young one."
Lucas glanced over his shoulder towards another table, where Max was sitting with her hood up, staring out the window at the overcast sky. "I'm pretty sure I've been facing an emotional cold front for a while already."
Dustin leaned forward curiously. "I'm a Pisces, what does it say for that?"
"Why do you know that?" Mike asked, some of his initial standoffish-ness worn away.
"Steve and Robin have this game where they make up terrible horoscopes for each other." He shrugged. "Robin's a Pisces too, and Steve is a Cancer."
Eddie hummed. "Pisces, huh?" He too a bite of his apple. "Be extra cautious with your belongings. Damn, looks like someone is going to rob you, Henderson. So the stars decree."
"So the stars decree," Dougie and Jeff echoed.
"I hate it when you guys do that." Gareth threw a chip at Jeff's head.
"Why do you think we do it?" Jeff grinned and threw the chip back. "Come on, Eddie, what's Dougie's? Something about doom and gloom, right? Something about how he's gonna die?" He laughed as Dougie kicked him under the table.
"Well, our fiery Aries friend will be facing- oh." Eddie's eyes widened a little. "It's actually not doom and glooom this month. Keep your aim true to your goals, even when progress is slow."
"Oh." Dougie nodded, considering. "That actually is kind of nice. I can live with that."
Eddie chuckled and turned his gaze to Mike, cocking his head with a smirk. "And you? Let me guess, fire sign. You're probably an Aries too. Or a Leo?"
Mike shrugged. "I don't know, end of December."
"After the 22nd?"
"Yeah."
"Capricorn, then. ...seriously? You're an earth sign?"
Mike squirmed a little under his stare. "Thought you said you didn't believe in this crap."
Eddie shrugged. "There's a little bit of truth to everything. That's what mama thought." He looked at the magazine and snickered. "This month may test your patience."
Mike hunched in on himself, glaring at Lucas when he tried to pat his shoulder. "Most months get on my nerves. This is stupid."
"Aw, he's like a baby raven," Dougie teased before elbowing Eddie. "Alright, come on man, what's yours?"
"The most important horoscope! Let's see here, Cancer says... I am invincible and nothing can bring me down. Damn right!"
"Let me see that." Jeff snatched the magazine from Eddie. "...oh. What do you know."
"The stars are in alignment for a good month ahead." Eddie chuckled and took the magazine back. He tapped it on the table before tucking it into his bag. "The ritual has been completed!"
"The ritual has been completed!" Gareth grinned as Jeff rolled his eyes.
"This is why everyone thinks we're satanists, you know-"
"Let the people think what they want, they're just mad I don't read them their horoscopes."
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Silverhawks - Syndication - September 8, 1986 - December 5, 1986
Animated (65 episodes)
Running Time: 23 minutes
Character Voices
Commander Stargazer (voiced by Bob McFadden)
Quicksilver / Captain Jonathan Quick (voiced by Peter Newman)
Bluegrass (voiced by Larry Kenney)
Steelheart/Sergeant Emily Hart and Steelwill/Sergeant Will Hart (voiced by Maggie Jakobson Wheeler and Bob McFadden)
The Copper Kidd (vocal effects provided by Pete Cannarozzi)
Hotwing (voiced by Adolph Caesar in earlier episodes, Doug Preis in later episodes)
Flashback (voiced by Peter Newman)
Moon Stryker (voiced by Larry Kenney)
Condor (voiced by Bob McFadden)
Mon*Star (voiced by Earl Hammond)
Yes-Man (voiced by Bob McFadden)
Hardware (voiced by Bob McFadden)
Melodia (voiced by Maggie Wheeler)
Windhammer (voiced by Doug Preis)
Mo-Lec-U-Lar (voiced by Doug Preis)
Buzz-Saw (voiced by Bob McFadden)
Poker-Face (voiced by Larry Kenney)
Mumbo-Jumbo (voiced by Peter Newman)
Timestopper (voiced by Larry Kenney)
Zero the Memory Thief (voiced by Peter Newman)
Darkbird (portrayed by Peter Newman)
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