Popular Culture Review Vol. 11, No. 1, February 2000 | Page 48

40 Popular Culture Review amphibians o f the bayou. In their joining, they “sprawl with the swamp,” “wrestle the planet” (200), and move to the beat of “the pulse within the world, within us” (201), a pulse that “shudders with life . . . and death” (202). In this culminating moment, a recapitulation of his own transformation from man to something more, Swamp Thing and Abby perceive the “strands” of the world at their most elemental levels, with a particularity unavailable to male reason and scientific measurement. All because they are willing to learn that they “are one creature . . . and all that there is . . . is in us” (200). Imagine Batman or Super