Issue #23 has Swamp Thing, in a dream sequence, coming to grips with his lack of humanity and existence as a plant-man. He goes mad from this overwhelming experience, and becomes convinced that he must eradicate all animal life in revenge for what humans and animals have done to earth and plants through industry, etc. The result is that Woodrue acquires the consciousness of the entire earth's vegetation. Woodrue consumes a yam-like tuber that grew from Swamp Thing, and hooks his mind up to a flower that grew from Swamp Thing. Issue #22 has Swamp Thing returned to his swamp in Louisiana, part of the swamp in a self-induced coma, having no will to live. The old man is killed when Swamp Thing awakens and discovers this revelation, asphyxiating the old man out of rage. That is, Swamp Thing is truly a monster and has no inner humanity. Woodrue discovers that Swamp Thing only absorbed the consciousness of Alec Holland, and is not a form of Alec Holland himself. In issue #21, a villain botanist named Jason Woodrue, whose supervillain alterego is the plant-man Floronic Man, is hired by someone only identified as "the old man" to dissect Swamp Thing's body and discover the source of his power. Though writer Alan Moore took over writing duties with issue 20, issue 21 is when Moore radically alters the origin of the title character and creates a new kind of Swamp Thing. Swamp Thing Volume 1 reproduces issues 21 through 27 of the comic book Saga of the Swamp Thing, which first ran in 1984.
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