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Thematic Swipe File: Buffy #34 Vs Swamp Thing #34

Published Fri, 16 Apr 2010 10:57:24 -0500

Last updated Mon, 08 Jul 2019 03:41:22 -0500

Last week's issue of Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season #8, Them Fucking (Plus The True History Of The Universe) featured an issue long sex scene between Buffy and Angel. Flying. At one point, into space. While their crew explore the history of magic and stuff. Like this.

Which reminded me terribly of another comic, Promethea #10, Sex, Stars And Serpents.

But there's another #34 that it's worth considering… Swamp Thing #34, Rite Of Spring. Where Abby And Swamp Thing have sex, through the hallucinatory shared experience of Abby eating from Alec's own body.

It's quite famous. Was the issue number similarity purely coincidence? Either way – more sex-as-expositionary-montages in comics please!

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