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Warning : contains spoiler forThe Swamp Thing : time of year Two # 12 !
DC has suggest at a distorted , mechanically skillful opposite ofSwamp Thingand the Parliament of Trees . InThe Swamp Thing : time of year Two # 12 , Levi Kamen , the raw Swamp Thing , learns of a great shift in the world , as the Parliament of Gears , a car - based twin to his Parliament of Trees , are clear their move , reanimating dead machines — let in an atomic dud .
excellently , Alan Moore ’s 1980s lam onSaga of the Swamp Thingretooled the character , transmute him into a Plant Elemental . Among the many concepts Moore and his partner introduced was the Parliament of Trees . This Parliament , located in South America , consisted of former Plant Elementals who had since forsaken the outside humankind , opting instead for a life of reflection ; the Parliament is also creditworthy for take new Swamp Things . In Season One ofThe Swamp Thing , readers meet the unexampled Swamp Thing : Levi Kamenand find his struggle to come to terms with what he had become . Levi fought the Pale Wanderer , a spectre from the deserts of the American Southwest ; after the Wanderer ’s defeat , his soundbox was taken by Jason Woodrue and inThe Swamp affair : Season Two # 11 , industrialist Harper Pilgrim eat the corpse of the Wanderer , create a ugly new being .
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Now , inSwamp matter : Season Two # 12 , readers see what this fauna has in stock for humanity . The government issue is written by Ram V , exemplify by Mike Perkins , colored by Mike Spicer , and letter by Aditya Bidikar . After merging with Pilgrim , the Pale Wanderer realizes his true nature : to be the vanguard of a raw Parliament , one built on machinery , war , subjection and greed . The Wanderer christen it the “ Parliament of Gears ” and he is its embodiment . As he leaves he rename himself “ the Pale Pilgrim . ” afterward , Wildstorm ’s Jack Hawksmoor returnsto Detroit , immediately sense something is haywire . As he look into , he encounters political machine humans , and reader learn these are concept created by the unexampled Parliament of Gears . The Parliament has the power to renovate dead and buried technology , and the issue ends with the arrival of Trinity — a quicken atomic bomb given human shape .
The Parliament of Gears has come in the DC Universe , a dark and grotesque sexual perversion of the Parliament of Trees ; its initial champions , the Pale Pilgrim and Trinity are dark anastrophe of Swamp Thing . The Pale Pilgrim has unleashed a monstrous raw force on the DC Universe , one built on engineering . This newfangled Parliament is also establish on concepts of avaritia and war , running counter to everything Swamp Thing and the Parliament of Trees digest for . More than a few Hero trust on high - technical school gear , giving the Pale Pilgrim and the Parliament of Gears a serious advantage over them . Even Jack Hawksmoor , who derive his power from the metropolis , had trouble oppose the Parliament of Gears ’ make . irrespective of what come about next , it seems like the Parliament of Gears will range amongSwamp matter ’s scariest villain ever .
The Parliament of Trees is one of the most powerful forces in the DC Universe , responsible for creating Swamp Thing . Their time may shortly be drawing to an terminal , as a dark , machine - establish opposite number has arrived and not even Swamp Thing may be able-bodied to check them .
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Swamp Thing : Season Two # 12is available now in print and digital from DC Comics !
