Review: Swamp Thing: Twin Branches

Swamp Thing: Twin Branches by Maggie Stiefvater
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Alec and Walker are twins who couldn’t be more different but are also inseparable.  When they discover their father is cheating on their mother, it is decided that they will spend the summer with their rural cousins in the swamp.  Walker has no problem making friends with the locals, but Alec is consumed by the experiment that he brought with them.  After some tragic accidents, both brothers must face truths that they were suppressing all along.

 

Swamp Thing: Twin Branches is a graphic novel origin story about this iconic character.  Once again, I didn’t know much about his character before reading the book.  It is definitely an origin story with 95% of the book focusing on what happened before the final event.  There is a lot of science (which I enjoyed), but this may be a turn off for some readers.  The graphics were great and added so much depth to the overall storyline.  Swamp Thing: Twin Branches would not be my first choice to read, but a fun addition to superhero origin stories.

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