Even as news spread about Swamp Thing's cancellation, the series expands its fictional world. 1 / 8
The second episode of the series introduces Kevin Durand as biogeneticist Jason Woodrue. 2 / 8
DC comics fans will recognize him as the Silver Age supervillain Floronic Man. 3 / 8
He played a key role in Swamp Thing's 1980s reboot. 4 / 8
Working for Avery Sunderland, Woodrue discovered Swamp Thing wasn't a mutated Alec Holland. 5 / 8
Instead the monster is intelligent plant life that absorbed Holland's memories. 6 / 8
In the comics, Woodrue used Swamp Thing's body to try to contact the Green ... 7 / 8
... the elemental force that connects all plant life on Earth. 8 / 8