History: (Swamp Thing II #68, 69, 74 (fb, BTS)) - A man mentored by General Sunderland refused to accept that Morgan Edge refused to sell a controlling interest in Galaxy Communications, to Sunderland Co., so he recruited sociopath and schizophrenic Alan Bolland, who believed Edge was the Anti-Christ, to blow up Galaxy with a truck bomb. On the verge of committing the deed, the sight of Superman flying over Metropolis made Bolland lose his nerve, and he dove away from the city. His employer couldn’t have him talking, so he remotely detonated the bomb. Bolland was dying and on fire, but he managed to stumble from the wreck and plunge into a nearby harbor. Sprout was in the Green, watching Swamp Thing and the Parliament discuss its future, when it witnessed Bolland’s death. Sprout realized his death had the potential to create a plant elemental, so Sprout made its move and turned Bolland into Wild Thing, a twisted new representative of the Green. Wild Thing ran amok in Metropolis, destroying everything in his path while reciting catch phrases from TV commercials. Swamp Thing battled the Parliament over the Sprout’s fate, removed the Sprout from Wild Thing, refusing to let the new plant elemental be an atrocity, and hid the Sprout on the moon. He placed the minds of the committee inside of Wild Thing, where he hoped they would languish. TV Detective Roy Raymond, and his assistant Lipschitz, who planned on doing a documentary about Swamp Thing for Incredible But True drove by Wild Thing and mistook him for their quarry. They offered him a meeting with their boss Morgan Edge, and he accepted, jumping in their limo and taking the drivers seat. Raymond called Morgan Edge, and learned to his horror that he would be gone for three weeks on vacation in Acapulco.

(Swamp Thing II #71, 72) - Wild Thing drove around the country like a madman, keeping Roy and Lipchitz locked in the car as his prisoners, taking away their credit cards and keeping them locked inside the car. They descended into madness, with Roy continually trying to contact Morgan Edge while surviving of the contents of his mini-bar. The Parliament members trapped inside Wild Thing made their presence known, and he started speaking Chinese, Old English and several other languages.

(Swamp Thing II #73, 74) - Raymond and Lipschitz fought over Ray’s phoine, but the dilapidated Raymond maintained control of the phone and continued his imaginary conversation with Morgan Edge. Wild Thing continued his mad cross country trip, and the limo filled up with filth and flies. The Parliament members trapped within him started to assert themselves, and Wild Thing began speaking Chinese and Olde English. Wild Thing drove to Louisiana, where he finally released his completely broken and insane hostages, and attacked Swamp Thing‘s love Abigail Arcane, another synchronistic event engineered by the Parliament of Trees hat led to a fire and the chance of the birth of a new plant elemental, and Swamp Thing came to her aid, destroying the renegade. This freed the Parliament committee members Bog Venus, Kettle Hole Devil, Ghost Hiding In The Rushes and Saint Columba, whose minds Swamp Thing had trapped within Wild Thing. They initially attacked him, but Swamp Thing brokered a peace by telling them of the Greens on other planets and other galaxies. They left Earth for the stars to pursue their own individuality, and to escape the consequences of the Green’s civil war on Earth.

Comments: Created by Rick Veitch.

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