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* AbusiveParents: Implied with Jessica's father. Since ''Saga of the Swamp Thing'' was still subject to the UsefulNotes/ComicsCode, the issue doesn't mention Jessica's abuse flat out, but suggests it with the Monkey King taking the distorted form of a man who tells her that her mother needn't know.
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* AbusiveParents: Implied with Jessica's father. Since ''Saga of the Swamp Thing'' was still subject to the UsefulNotes/ComicsCode, MediaNotes/TheComicsCode, the issue doesn't mention Jessica's abuse flat out, but suggests it with the Monkey King taking the distorted form of a man who tells her that her mother needn't know.
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* YourWorstNightmare: The Monkey King. "Whatever you're scared of," says Paul, "that's what it looks like." Thus, for his fellow Elysium Lawns resident Roberta, who accidentally smothered her baby brother when she was four, the monster takes the form of a blue baby boy, while for Jessica, it takes the (visually and vocally distorted) form of her sexually abusive father.
--> Mo-o-omy needunt kno-o-oww...
--> Mo-o-omy needunt kno-o-oww...
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: As Matt resolves to go find Abby, "Our Insect Allies", a ''[[Series/MutualOfOmahasWildKingdom Wild Kingdom]]'' episode, accompanied by a picture of a fly, airs on TV. This foreshadows [[spoiler:Arcane, in the body of a fly, possessing Matt]].
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** As Matt resolves to go find Abby, "Our Insect Allies", a ''[[Series/MutualOfOmahasWildKingdom Wild Kingdom]]'' episode, accompanied by a picture of a fly, airs on TV. This foreshadows [[spoiler:Arcane, in the body of a fly, possessingMatt]].Matt]].
** Etrigan ponders how unlikely it was that Paul's parents just happened to spell out the word that summoned the Monkey King and wonders if some other force arranged it. [[spoiler: Later stories suggest this was Arcane, presumably via influencing Matt's power.]]
** As Matt resolves to go find Abby, "Our Insect Allies", a ''[[Series/MutualOfOmahasWildKingdom Wild Kingdom]]'' episode, accompanied by a picture of a fly, airs on TV. This foreshadows [[spoiler:Arcane, in the body of a fly, possessing
** Etrigan ponders how unlikely it was that Paul's parents just happened to spell out the word that summoned the Monkey King and wonders if some other force arranged it. [[spoiler: Later stories suggest this was Arcane, presumably via influencing Matt's power.]]
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* HopeSpot: Towards the end of the issue, it seems that Matt, feeling remorse over his treatment of Abby and resolving to go help her with the kids, is embarking on a RedemptionQuest. Then, en route, he [[SurpriseCarCrash crashes his car]] into a tree.
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** The issue ends with the narrative caption, "The night can make a man more brave...but not more sober." The panel, in which Matt crashes his car, also prominently features a Advertising/BurmaShave billboard, thus suggesting the following parody jingle:[[note]]The parody is inexact, since the product name in the classic billboards always came ''after'' the poem, rather than itself forming the final rhyme.[[/note]]
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** The issue ends with the narrative caption, "The night can make a man more brave...but not more sober." The panel, in which Matt crashes his car, also prominently features a Advertising/BurmaShave billboard, thus suggesting the following parody jingle:[[note]]The parody is inexact, since jingle:[[note]]Although the product name in the classic billboards always usually came ''after'' the poem, rather than there were ads in which "Burma-Shave" did itself forming form the final rhyme.[[/note]]
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--> "I used to think I knew from fear...I didn't. All I knew were the suburbs of fear...and now here I am, in the big city."\\
'''-- Abby Cable'''
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: As Matt resolves to go find Abby, ''Our Insect Allies,'' a ''[[Series/MutualOfOmahasWildKingdom Wild Kingdom]]'' episode, accompanied by a picture of a fly, airs on TV. This foreshadows [[spoiler:Arcane, in the body of a fly, possessing Matt]].
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: As Matt resolves to go find Abby, ''Our "Our Insect Allies,'' Allies", a ''[[Series/MutualOfOmahasWildKingdom Wild Kingdom]]'' episode, accompanied by a picture of a fly, airs on TV. This foreshadows [[spoiler:Arcane, in the body of a fly, possessing Matt]].
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Inside the Center, the Monkey King, still treating Paul as his master and friend, pulls him from his bed and leads him one by one to the other children's rooms to feed on their terror by morphing into their greatest fears. Abby and the Swamp Thing sneak in through the back entrance, just in time to see the monster assume the shape of the greatest fear out of all the children: Jessica's molestor father. As Abby and her friend attempt to calm and protect the children, the demon Comicbook/{{Etrigan}} bursts in through the roof and attacks the Monkey King.
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Inside the Center, the Monkey King, still treating Paul as his master and friend, pulls him from his bed and leads him one by one to the other children's rooms to feed on their terror by morphing into their greatest fears. Abby and the Swamp Thing sneak in through the back entrance, just in time to see the monster assume the shape of the greatest fear out of all the children: Jessica's molestor molester father. As Abby and her friend attempt to calm and protect the children, the demon Comicbook/{{Etrigan}} bursts in through the roof and attacks the Monkey King.
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* AbusiveParents: Implied with Jessica's father. Since North American society in 1984 had only recently begun to acknowledge the prevalence of child molestation, and since ''Saga of the Swamp Thing'' was still subject to the UsefulNotes/ComicsCode, the issue doesn't mention Jessica's abuse flat out, but suggests it with the Monkey King taking the distorted form of a man who tells her that her mother needn't know.
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* AbusiveParents: Implied with Jessica's father. Since North American society in 1984 had only recently begun to acknowledge the prevalence of child molestation, and since ''Saga of the Swamp Thing'' was still subject to the UsefulNotes/ComicsCode, the issue doesn't mention Jessica's abuse flat out, but suggests it with the Monkey King taking the distorted form of a man who tells her that her mother needn't know.
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* NightmareFuelColoringBook: On the eve of the Monkey King's return, not only Paul but all the children draw pictures of it. These drawings reappear in the margins of the following issue's splash page.
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Inside the Center, the Monkey King pulls Paul from his bed and leads him one by one to the other children's rooms to feed on their terror by morphing into their greatest fears. Abby and the Swamp Thing sneak in through the back entrance, just in time to see the monster assume the shape of the greatest fear out of all the children: Jessica's molestor father. As Abby and her friend attempt to calm and protect the children, the demon Comicbook/{{Etrigan}} bursts in through the roof and attacks the Monkey King.
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Inside the Center, the Monkey King King, still treating Paul as his master and friend, pulls Paul him from his bed and leads him one by one to the other children's rooms to feed on their terror by morphing into their greatest fears. Abby and the Swamp Thing sneak in through the back entrance, just in time to see the monster assume the shape of the greatest fear out of all the children: Jessica's molestor father. As Abby and her friend attempt to calm and protect the children, the demon Comicbook/{{Etrigan}} bursts in through the roof and attacks the Monkey King.
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* EveryCarIsAPinto: Matt's car seemingly explodes in a fireball and yellow halo.
* GratuitousIambicPentameter: Although Len Wein had Etrigan speaking in rhyme as early as ''Comicbook/DCComicsPresents'' #66, Moore is the writer who, with this and subsequent ''Swamp Thing'' issues, firmly established the demon as one who not only speaks entirely in verse but does so specifically in ''heroic quatrains'' (four-line iambic pentameter stanzas with an [=ABAB=] rhyme scheme) or, at the end of a speech, ''heroic couplets'' (rhyming pairs of lines in iambic pentameter). (Not that all subsequent writers have held the character to either particular verse form.)
* GratuitousIambicPentameter: Although Len Wein had Etrigan speaking in rhyme as early as ''Comicbook/DCComicsPresents'' #66, Moore is the writer who, with this and subsequent ''Swamp Thing'' issues, firmly established the demon as one who not only speaks entirely in verse but does so specifically in ''heroic quatrains'' (four-line iambic pentameter stanzas with an [=ABAB=] rhyme scheme) or, at the end of a speech, ''heroic couplets'' (rhyming pairs of lines in iambic pentameter). (Not that all subsequent writers have held the character to either particular verse form.)
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* EveryCarIsAPinto: Matt's car seemingly explodes in a fireball and yellow halo.
halo. [[spoiler: Subverted, as the next issue shows that the car and its driver are still there, albeit totalled and near-dead, respectively]].
* {{Foreshadowing}}: As Matt resolves to go find Abby, ''Our Insect Allies,'' a ''[[Series/MutualOfOmahasWildKingdom Wild Kingdom]]'' episode, accompanied by a picture of a fly, airs on TV. This foreshadows [[spoiler:Arcane, in the body of a fly, possessing Matt]].
* GratuitousIambicPentameter: Although Len Wein had Etrigan speaking in rhyme as early as ''Comicbook/DCComicsPresents'' #66, Moore is the writer who, with this and subsequent ''Swamp Thing'' issues, firmly established the demon as one who not only speaks entirely in verse but does so specifically in ''heroic quatrains'' (four-line iambic pentameter stanzas with an [=ABAB=] rhyme scheme) or, at the end of a speech, ''heroic couplets'' (rhyming pairs of lines in iambic pentameter).(Not Not that all subsequent writers have held the character to either particular verse form.)
* {{Foreshadowing}}: As Matt resolves to go find Abby, ''Our Insect Allies,'' a ''[[Series/MutualOfOmahasWildKingdom Wild Kingdom]]'' episode, accompanied by a picture of a fly, airs on TV. This foreshadows [[spoiler:Arcane, in the body of a fly, possessing Matt]].
* GratuitousIambicPentameter: Although Len Wein had Etrigan speaking in rhyme as early as ''Comicbook/DCComicsPresents'' #66, Moore is the writer who, with this and subsequent ''Swamp Thing'' issues, firmly established the demon as one who not only speaks entirely in verse but does so specifically in ''heroic quatrains'' (four-line iambic pentameter stanzas with an [=ABAB=] rhyme scheme) or, at the end of a speech, ''heroic couplets'' (rhyming pairs of lines in iambic pentameter).
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--> "I used to think I knew from fear...I didn't. All I knew were the suburbs of fear...and now here I am in the big city."\\
'''-- Abby Cable'''
Jason Blood invites the reluctant Abby for tea, revealing that he knows she's an Arcane and that she'll be starting work at Elysium Lawns the next day. Although she initially mistakes his mention of Paul and the children there as a threat, he manages to warn her they're in danger and that she must try saving as many of them as possible.
The next day, Abby shows up at work, whereupon a naked boy chanting "Animal" attacks her. Her new coworker Tim pulls him off and helps restrain him, mentioning that all the children are acting unusually wild today. Sure enough, Abby spends much of the day helping the staff restrain other kids. Her boss Deanna shows her that not just Paul but all of their charges are now drawing pictures of the Monkey King. Abby speaks with Paul, who tells her that the monster will soon kill her by taking on the form of her greatest fear. He says no one believes him about the Monkey King. But Abby does.
That evening, back at their hotel, Abby and Matt fight over her resolve to go back to the Center and protect the kids because "they need somebody tonight." "And what if I need somebody tonight?" says Matt. "Or is Florence Nightingale above that kind of stuff?"
Realizing he's gone too far, Matt, by way of apology, suggests Abby take the car but she's too angry to accept the keys from him, and heads off on foot for the swamp. She struggles to tell the Swamp Thing what's going on at Elysium Lawns, but he's already sensed something evil is coming and, taking her hand, runs there with her, though she fears they're already too late.
Inside the Center, the Monkey King pulls Paul from his bed and leads him one by one to the other children's rooms to feed on their terror by morphing into their greatest fears. Abby and the Swamp Thing sneak in through the back entrance, just in time to see the monster assume the shape of the greatest fear out of all the children: Jessica's molestor father. As Abby and her friend attempt to calm and protect the children, the demon Comicbook/{{Etrigan}} bursts in through the roof and attacks the Monkey King.
Meanwhile, Matt, still drinking, feels remorse for his treatment of Abby and his failure to offer help. He goes after her in his car, but crashes into a tree.
!!Tropes
* AbusiveParents: Implied with Jessica's father. Since North American society in 1984 had only recently begun to acknowledge the prevalence of child molestation, and since ''Saga of the Swamp Thing'' was still subject to the UsefulNotes/ComicsCode, the issue doesn't mention Jessica's abuse flat out, but suggests it with the Monkey King taking the distorted form of a man who tells her that her mother needn't know.
* BadassBoast: Etrigan:
--> I am the one who comes to cage the ape.\\
I pay no heed to youth or purity.\\
I'll roast each fool that aids the beast's escape,\\
And drink their health tonight in Purgat'ry!\\
[...]\\
Feast, Jack-an-Ape! Eat hearty while you can...\\
Upon your neck's the breath of ETRIGAN!
* BookEnds: Abby's thought, "It began with death...It began with blood...I guess it'll probably end the same way," appears shortly after the issue's beginning and shortly before the end.
* DrunkDriver: Matt, with predictable results.
* EveryCarIsAPinto: Matt's car seemingly explodes in a fireball and yellow halo.
* GratuitousIambicPentameter: Although Len Wein had Etrigan speaking in rhyme as early as ''Comicbook/DCComicsPresents'' #66, Moore is the writer who, with this and subsequent ''Swamp Thing'' issues, firmly established the demon as one who not only speaks entirely in verse but does so specifically in ''heroic quatrains'' (four-line iambic pentameter stanzas with an [=ABAB=] rhyme scheme) or, at the end of a speech, ''heroic couplets'' (rhyming pairs of lines in iambic pentameter). (Not that all subsequent writers have held the character to either particular verse form.)
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Matt accuses Abby of being "above" having sex.
* MadnessMantra: Vince, the boy who attacks Abby, chants the word "animal" over and over as he does so.
* QuitYourWhining: Jason Blood cuts off Abby, who's mistaken him for a threat to Elysium Lawns and is angsting about the non-stop craziness in her life, by telling her he's uninterested in her self-pity and that she must focus on saving the children.
* ShoutOut
** The issue begins with a quote from the 1955 thriller, ''Film/TheNightOfTheHunter'' which, like this arc, concerns innocent yet resilient children in danger: "God save the little children! They abide and they endure."
** The issue ends with the narrative caption, "The night can make a man more brave...but not more sober." The panel, in which Matt crashes his car, also prominently features a Advertising/BurmaShave billboard, thus suggesting the following parody jingle:[[note]]The parody is inexact, since the product name in the classic billboards always came ''after'' the poem, rather than itself forming the final rhyme.[[/note]]
--> The night can make\\
A man more brave\\
But not more sober\\
''Burma Shave''
* WeirdnessMagnet: Abby complains about being one: "Isn't there even a corner of my life that's safe from all this weirdness?"
* YourWorstNightmare: The Monkey King. "Whatever you're scared of," says Paul, "that's what it looks like." Thus, for his fellow Elysium Lawns resident Roberta, who accidentally smothered her baby brother when she was four, the monster takes the form of a blue baby boy, while for Jessica, it takes the (visually and vocally distorted) form of her sexually abusive father.
--> Mo-o-omy needunt kno-o-oww...
'''-- Abby Cable'''
Jason Blood invites the reluctant Abby for tea, revealing that he knows she's an Arcane and that she'll be starting work at Elysium Lawns the next day. Although she initially mistakes his mention of Paul and the children there as a threat, he manages to warn her they're in danger and that she must try saving as many of them as possible.
The next day, Abby shows up at work, whereupon a naked boy chanting "Animal" attacks her. Her new coworker Tim pulls him off and helps restrain him, mentioning that all the children are acting unusually wild today. Sure enough, Abby spends much of the day helping the staff restrain other kids. Her boss Deanna shows her that not just Paul but all of their charges are now drawing pictures of the Monkey King. Abby speaks with Paul, who tells her that the monster will soon kill her by taking on the form of her greatest fear. He says no one believes him about the Monkey King. But Abby does.
That evening, back at their hotel, Abby and Matt fight over her resolve to go back to the Center and protect the kids because "they need somebody tonight." "And what if I need somebody tonight?" says Matt. "Or is Florence Nightingale above that kind of stuff?"
Realizing he's gone too far, Matt, by way of apology, suggests Abby take the car but she's too angry to accept the keys from him, and heads off on foot for the swamp. She struggles to tell the Swamp Thing what's going on at Elysium Lawns, but he's already sensed something evil is coming and, taking her hand, runs there with her, though she fears they're already too late.
Inside the Center, the Monkey King pulls Paul from his bed and leads him one by one to the other children's rooms to feed on their terror by morphing into their greatest fears. Abby and the Swamp Thing sneak in through the back entrance, just in time to see the monster assume the shape of the greatest fear out of all the children: Jessica's molestor father. As Abby and her friend attempt to calm and protect the children, the demon Comicbook/{{Etrigan}} bursts in through the roof and attacks the Monkey King.
Meanwhile, Matt, still drinking, feels remorse for his treatment of Abby and his failure to offer help. He goes after her in his car, but crashes into a tree.
!!Tropes
* AbusiveParents: Implied with Jessica's father. Since North American society in 1984 had only recently begun to acknowledge the prevalence of child molestation, and since ''Saga of the Swamp Thing'' was still subject to the UsefulNotes/ComicsCode, the issue doesn't mention Jessica's abuse flat out, but suggests it with the Monkey King taking the distorted form of a man who tells her that her mother needn't know.
* BadassBoast: Etrigan:
--> I am the one who comes to cage the ape.\\
I pay no heed to youth or purity.\\
I'll roast each fool that aids the beast's escape,\\
And drink their health tonight in Purgat'ry!\\
[...]\\
Feast, Jack-an-Ape! Eat hearty while you can...\\
Upon your neck's the breath of ETRIGAN!
* BookEnds: Abby's thought, "It began with death...It began with blood...I guess it'll probably end the same way," appears shortly after the issue's beginning and shortly before the end.
* DrunkDriver: Matt, with predictable results.
* EveryCarIsAPinto: Matt's car seemingly explodes in a fireball and yellow halo.
* GratuitousIambicPentameter: Although Len Wein had Etrigan speaking in rhyme as early as ''Comicbook/DCComicsPresents'' #66, Moore is the writer who, with this and subsequent ''Swamp Thing'' issues, firmly established the demon as one who not only speaks entirely in verse but does so specifically in ''heroic quatrains'' (four-line iambic pentameter stanzas with an [=ABAB=] rhyme scheme) or, at the end of a speech, ''heroic couplets'' (rhyming pairs of lines in iambic pentameter). (Not that all subsequent writers have held the character to either particular verse form.)
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Matt accuses Abby of being "above" having sex.
* MadnessMantra: Vince, the boy who attacks Abby, chants the word "animal" over and over as he does so.
* QuitYourWhining: Jason Blood cuts off Abby, who's mistaken him for a threat to Elysium Lawns and is angsting about the non-stop craziness in her life, by telling her he's uninterested in her self-pity and that she must focus on saving the children.
* ShoutOut
** The issue begins with a quote from the 1955 thriller, ''Film/TheNightOfTheHunter'' which, like this arc, concerns innocent yet resilient children in danger: "God save the little children! They abide and they endure."
** The issue ends with the narrative caption, "The night can make a man more brave...but not more sober." The panel, in which Matt crashes his car, also prominently features a Advertising/BurmaShave billboard, thus suggesting the following parody jingle:[[note]]The parody is inexact, since the product name in the classic billboards always came ''after'' the poem, rather than itself forming the final rhyme.[[/note]]
--> The night can make\\
A man more brave\\
But not more sober\\
''Burma Shave''
* WeirdnessMagnet: Abby complains about being one: "Isn't there even a corner of my life that's safe from all this weirdness?"
* YourWorstNightmare: The Monkey King. "Whatever you're scared of," says Paul, "that's what it looks like." Thus, for his fellow Elysium Lawns resident Roberta, who accidentally smothered her baby brother when she was four, the monster takes the form of a blue baby boy, while for Jessica, it takes the (visually and vocally distorted) form of her sexually abusive father.
--> Mo-o-omy needunt kno-o-oww...
