Swamp Thing Is Killing the Children #1 Covers Reveal the Slaughterverse's First DC Crossover

BOOM! Studios and DC have pulled back the curtain on cover art for Swamp Thing Is Killing the Children #1, the long-teased team-up dropping Alan Moore's muck-monster into the blood-soaked world of James Tynion IV and Werther Dell'Edera's Something Is Killing the Children. The 64-page one-shot ships December 2 for $8.99 and marks the first time DC has let one of its characters loose in the Slaughterverse.

The pitch has monster hunter Erica Slaughter crossing paths with the Green in a story that leans into body horror on both sides of the aisle - swamp-rooted cosmic dread meeting the series' trademark creature-killing brutality. Dell'Edera returns to draw the crossover himself, keeping the visual language consistent with the flagship SIKTC covers even as the setting shifts into distinctly DC territory.

It's a notable move for DC, which has been comparatively cautious about lending its legacy characters to creator-owned universes at other publishers. If the crossover performs the way BOOM!'s recent SIKTC milestone issues have - the publisher's blind-bag promotion for #50 alone pulled in a quarter-million pre-orders - expect more cross-publisher pairings to follow.

Source: Comic Book Club