DC Just Revived Its Most Complicated Supernatural Force

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Poison Ivy is taking on a whole new role, and it could make her stronger than ever before.

Poison Ivy #30 opens to find the titular antivillain wandering the woods outside Gotham City. As Poison Ivy makes her way through the trees, she is besieged by a towering monstrosity, one she has no hope of escaping. Fortunately for her, this emissary of The Grey known as Xylon has no intentions of harming Ivy, especially not when she is the only person on Earth who could possibly help it broach a life-saving truce between itself and the Parliament of Trees.

Written by G. WILLOW WILSON

Art by MARCIO TAKARA

Colors by ARIF PRIANTO

Letters by HASSAN OTSMANE-ELHAOU

Main cover art by JESSICA FONG

Variant covers by PABLO VILLALOBOS & MOSTAFA MOUSSA, JESSICA FONG, JORGE FORNÉS, SARAH BASLAIM, and JENNY FRISON

First introduced as a concept in the pages of 1986’s Swamp Thing #47 by Alan Moore and Stan Woch, The Green is one of the many elemental forces that connect entire breeds of life all across the Multiverse. In the case of The Green, that breed of life just so happens to be plants of every variety, from the lowliest saplings of Earth to sprawling alien forests. Many DC Comics characters have been tied to The Green, most famously Swamp Thing, though The Green has a unique emissary of its own in the form of the collective entity known as the Parliament of Trees.

Like The Green, The Grey is another of the elemental forces of the overarching DC mythos. Introduced in 1988’s Swamp Thing Annual #4 by Steve Bissette and Pat Broderick, The Grey is a force of decay and entropy which connects all mycelial life forms. Although The Grey hasn’t had nearly the same presence in the pages of DC Comics as other elemental forces such as The Green and The Red, it is still an indelible part of the structure of the Multiverse as a whole. Just as the Parliament of Trees serves as the voice for The Green, Xylon serves as the voice for The Grey, although his recent debut has proven that he is incapable of directly communicating with those who aren’t directly attuned to The Grey for themselves.

The current plot that Poison Ivy has been thrust into the center of came as a result of her recent self-sacrifice, which she made in an effort to prevent a global catastrophe from being kicked off by the villainous Floronic Man. After Poison Ivy gave up her own life to save the world, she was carried out into the depths of Slaughter Swamp by none other than the infamous Solomon Grundy. Soon enough, Ivy was back to life in a familiar if new form, one which has upset the balance between The Grey and The Green by the nature of its very existence.

Poison Ivy #30 is on sale now from DC Comics.

Source: DC Comics

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