Swamp Thing #46

The Swamp Thing, John Constantine, Benjamin Cox and Frank North stand in amazement as the world about them is afire with chaos. Beings and creatures from various time periods fill the city. 18th century cavalry soldiers engage in combat with space men, while dinosaurs terrorize back alleys and a futuristic car nearly runs down a tribe of Neanderthals and a flock of Dodo birds. Constantine knows the situation is serious, but he is more concerned about what will happen following the Crisis.

John and the Swamp Thing are mysteriously teleported through space to the satellite of the Monitor. The Monitor is dead, but his satellite is filled with various members of the superhero community, some from parallel dimensions. John gives Swamp Thing a truncated explanation of the Multiverse, and then introduces him to the Monitor's successor, Alexander Luthor. He is the one responsible for bringing them here. Luthor understands that the Crisis will have an effect on the spiritual world as well as the material one, and he is relying on the Swamp Thing to attend to these specific matters. Swamp Thing is confused and does not really understand how he could possibly help.

John and he return to Earth, and John tells him about an existing threat beyond that of the Crisis – the Brujería. The Brujería are a cult of South American warlocks whose goals are nothing short of the destruction of Heaven. Recalling their brutality strikes a chord within Constantine, and he emphasizes how dangerous the Brujería's actions really are. He tells Swamp Thing that the Brujería have been slowly achieving their goals by using a macabre killer called an Invunche.

The Swamp Thing merges with the The Green in order to get a sense of what John and Luthor have been telling him. Picking up random perceptions throughout the ether, he does in fact realize that the psychic plane is in just as much danger as the material world.

In London, England, Sister Anne-Marie isn't able to locate Judith. On her way back to her hotel, she exits a train onto the wrong platform. She grows nervous and knows that a threat is looming over her. The Invunche appears and kills her, tearing the cross from her neck.