Trivia / Swamp Thing Volume 2 Issue 51 Home Free

• Creator In-Joke: Constantine's quip that when he returns home to London, "there'll be something nasty evolving in the fridge" is a reference to Neil Gaiman's first, still unillustrated and unpublished, comic book script, "The Day My Pad Went Mad," which he wrote in 1985 after befriending Moore and learning how he scripted his comics. The story was indeed about Constantine facing what had emerged in his fridge while he was abroad during "American Gothic." Thus, Moore's allusion to it in the present issue was a private joke between the two of them, until Gaiman wrote about it in the introduction to his anthology of miscellaneous DC works, Neil Gaiman's Midnight Days.