(Swamp Thing I #12) - Matt and Abby attended Ruth’s funeral, and Matt suggested to Bolt that working with him could help him take his mind off his grief. Matt wanted him to help him track down Swamp Thing, and after a fiery argument that Abby had to break up he convinced Bolt that his hatred of Swamp Thing was as irrational as Matt’s once was.

(Swamp Thing I #13) - Matt Cable, Abigail, and Bolt, using weaponry designed by Professor Degrez of Project: Leviathan that wanted to study Swamp Thing, captured the monster. Matt released Swamp Thing to the care of Commander John Zero and a cell was set up for him at Fenwick Military Academy in Washington, D.C. Degrez studied Swamp Thing, but he escaped his cell. Military guards shot at him, but ended up gunning down Degrez before subduing Swamp Thing and placing him in a new cell. Zero put Matt Cable in charge of Degrez’ funeal, and disturbed Matt by hinting that Swamp Thing would be destroyed after they were finished studying him. Matt begged to be allowed to tray and talk to Swamp Thing alone, and after some pleading Swamp Thing revealed that he was Alec Holland. Matt talked things over with Abby, and she told him his heart would lead him in the right direction. Matt’s conscience wouldn’t let him leave Swamp Thing to rot, so he broke him out of Project: Leviathan with Abby’s help, and burning the lab, hoping the guards would assume Swamp Thing was dead. Bolt tried to stop him, and they fought, but Swamp Thing broke up the struggle, and convinced Bolt that he was once a man. Matt had Swamp Thing stowed in a false casket under Professor Degrez’ funeral, and after the service Swamp Thing dug himself to the surface, having been instructed to wait for Matt. While waiting he came across Alec and Linda Holland’s headstones and bemoaned the fate he fealt he forced on his wife. He decided Matt was too good a man to associate with a monster, and he shambled back to the swamp.

(Swamp Thing I #15) - Matt, Abby, and Bolt, hired Luke, a local tracker, to locate Swamp Thing. Swamp Thing was annoyed that Matt didn’t get the hint that he didn’t want to be found, and fled into the swamp. A fierce storm kicked up, and Swamp Thing was struck by lightning. He was found by Father Jonathon Bliss, who brought him back to his ramshackle church, and revived him. Bliss had gone mad, and turned to black magic when his congregation left him. He’d summoned the demon Nebiros, whose essence was in a transcendental globe pending the location of a suitable host. Bliss lured Swamp Thing into a false sense of security, and then performed a spell that let Nebiros inhabit his body. Nebiros, in Swamp Thing’s form, captured Abby, Matt and Luke, and ripped out Luke’s soul. Bliss explained to his captives that Nebiros would bring about Armageddon, forcing mankind to repent and turn to god. Matt made him see the error of his ways, and Bliss tried to exorcize Nebiros, but the demon was too powerful. Matt escaped his bonds and destroyed the transcendental sphere, casting Nebiros from Swamp Thing’s body. Nebiros and Swamp Thing fought, but Nebiros’ otherworldly form could not sustain itself on the earthly plane without a host. Bliss offered himself up, but he was too weak a vessel, and was incinerated. Bliss knew full well what he was doing, and Nebiros’ consciousness was scattered across the universe. Swamp Thing, Matt an Abby left the church, only to witness Bolt being kidnapped and taken aboard a Conclave helicopter.

(Swamp Thing I #16) - Swamp Thing agreed to help Matt and Abby find bolt, and they boarded a flight to the Caribbean, with Swamp Thing hid in storage. A skyjacker ruined their carefully laid plans, and Swamp Thing was forced to reveal himself to save a stewardess’ life. Swamp Thing and the skyjacker tumbled from the plane, and landed in the ocean. Matt told Abby they had to stick to their plan of finding Bolt, and he assured her that Swamp Thing could take care of himself.

(Swamp Thing I #17) - Swamp Thing, Matt, and Abby all arrived on the Caribbean island where the Conclave had Bolt stashed away. The Conclave imprisoned Matt and Abby alongside Bolt, and they learned that Mr. E was resurrected by the Conclave‘s scientists, but was left crippled. E no longer wanted the secret of the bio-restorative formula, he only wanted Swamp Thing dead. Swamp Thing was hot on E’s trail, and E used a remote video screen in his stronghold to demand Swamp Thing confront him, or watch his friends die. E revealed his long term plans to Matt and company, Dr. Pretorius had invented the Ultra Cerebralociter, which would destroy the minds of every capable leader on Earth, which would allow E to set himself up as world emperor. E hoped his robotic sentries would kill Swamp Thing before he entered his inner sanctum, but Swamp Thing persevered and confronted his hated foe. With Linda’s death still tormenting him, he picked up E’s wheelchair and smashed him into the Ultra Cerebralociter. Loose wires electrocuted E, and his rampaging robotic sentries destroyed the rest of the Conclave. Swamp Thing and his allies left the island by helicopter, but ran out of fuel and were forced to crash land.

(Swamp Thing I #18) - Swamp Thing and company crashed in south Florida, and came upon Serenity Village, which Matt described as a geriatric Disney World. Swamp Thing was confident they would be fine on their own, and made his way into the swamp, not caring that it was Florida, and not his home base. Swamp Thing was attacked by four-armed devils, and managed to kill them, but he realized Serenity might hold danger for his friends, and rushed back. He found Matt, Abby and Bolt held captive by Aubrey Trask, the leader of the elderly at Serenity. He was in his physical prime, and explained that he resented being sent off to die in a retirement him and began studying the occult to make himself young again by draining the life force of Serenity’s real administrator. He was going to sacrifice Swamp Thing’s friends to restore the youth of his fellow retirees, but his visiting son, Nicholas Trask, burned the Ebon-Tome that gave Aubrey his powers. The strain of returning to his original age killed Aubrey, and Swamp Thing and his friends reflected sadly on the pitiful scene of Nicolas standing over his dead father.

(Swamp Thing I #19, 20) - Matt, Abby and Bolt went searching for Swamp Thing in Florida, and stopped in Gatorsberg when they received reports of a swamp monster. Junior, a diner owner’s son told them he’d heard about the creature, and offered to take them to Benson’s Swamp, where his friend Ho’Tah Makanaw lived. Swamp Thing’s friends were convinced by Makanaw that they were on a wild goose chase, and they returned to town. In truth the swamp monster was a pseudo Swamp Thing that had regrown from an arm Swamp Thing lost years ago, and Makanaw was hiding him because he didn‘t know Matt and company‘s motivation in finding him. Matt and friends were uncomfortable with the diner owner, Sloan, whipping up the townsfolk into a fury over the possible presence of a monster, and blaming it’s existence on Makanaw. Makanaw took the pseudo Swamp Thing to the Grotto of Eternal Youth that had kept him young for over a century and a half. Halstead, the head of the government excavation, dynamited a boulder, inadvertently destroying the Grotto. Makanaw was outraged that the last thing he had was destroyed by the white man, and sent the pseudo Swamp Thing on a rampage through nearby Gatorsberg. Swamp Thing arrived to battled his double, but it was a stalemate. Halstead showed up in Gatorsberg, and Matt, Abby, and Bolt, who thought Swamp Thing had gone mad, watched helplessly as Halstead dynamited the pseudo Swamp Thing, and thought their friend had been killed.

(Swamp Thing II #76) - The D.D.I. dissolved, and stopped taking care of Matt‘s medical expenses, as he moldered away in a coma, his body and health withering after Arcane had possessed his body. Abigail visited Matt in the hospital, and talked to his comatose form. She was old-fashioned, and still in some way considered him her husband even though she was in love with Swamp Thing. She would never sacrifice the new life she’d built with Swamp Thing, and hoping for a sign, Matt’s wedding ring slipped from his finger, and she took it, thanking him.

(Sandman II #11) - Dream ordered Matthew, who as his latest raven was both messenger and servant,  to keep tabs on the dream vortex Rose Walker in the waking world. Matthew reported that she was searching for her long-lost brother Jed, and Dream had him steal a photograph of Jed from Rose.

(Sandman II #15) - Dream sent Matthew to bring Fiddler’s Green from the waking world back to the Dreaming. Fiddler’s Green told Matthew that he wanted to try being a man instead of a dream, and Matthew said he was much happier being a dream than a man. Matthew really wasn’t proud of the person he’d become towards the end of his life as a man. Matthew and Fiddler’s Green returned to the Dreaming.

(Sandman II #16) - Matthew accompanied Dream as he prepared to kill the dream vortex Rose Walker to save the Dreaming. Matthew told Rose not to worry, death wasn’t so bad and he’d gotten used to being dead pretty quickly. Fortunately Rose’s grandmother Unity Kinkaid took away Rose’s dream vortex power, so Dream was able to spare Rose’s life.

(Sandman II #22) - Dream announced his upcoming trip to Hell to Matthew and the assembled dreams of the Dreaming. Matthew tried to cheer up Dream before his trip, but to no avail.

(Sandman II #24) - Matthew, Cain and Lucien welcomed Dream back from Hell. He told them he failed to save Nada from Hell, and refused to talk about what happened at any great length. Matthew spent time with Eve in her cave and asked what they could do to get Dream out of his current funk. Eve told him the only thing they could do was wait it out.

(Sandman II #26) - An emissary of various pantheons visited Dream’s castle in order to persuade Dream to give them possession of Hell. Matthew spent time with Odin’s ravens Hugnin and Munnin, telling them his life’s story. Matthew alerted Dream when a raucous Thor created a thunderstorm in one of the suites in Dream’s castle.

(Sandman II #27) - Matthew sympathized with Dream’s indecision over who to grant the ownership of Hell to, and when the agents of Heaven took the decision out of Dream’s hands Matthew was pleased.

(Sandman II #32) - Matthew and Dream observed the Land, one of the distant skerries of the Dreaming. Dream noted that it was dying and kept when Matthew asked what he was going to do about it he told him he’d simply observe what happened.

(Sandman II #40) – Matthew met Daniel in the Dreaming, and they listened to stories told by Eve, Cain and Abel. Cain told a mystery about Rooks and why the collective noun for them was Parliament of Rooks that he hoped would interest Matthew. Matthew was fascinated, but made it clear that Cain still got on his last nerve.

(Sandman II #42) - Matthew spent hours trying to cheer up Dream after Thessaly dumped him, but it was no use. Matthew chatted with Lucien, telling him he never thought much of Thessaly.