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Swamp Thing was created by these two guys in the 1970s, Len Wein and artist Bernie Wrightson. They ran that title for a bit and then it died. Then it came back in the ‘80s and it was run by another group of people and around issue 20, Alan Moore came in and he just did a run on that comic book that was just spectacular. In a way, it’s sad that it’s not remembered, but that was some of the most brilliant comic book writing I’ve ever read and the artists working on it did really beautiful work. When I saw that reddit question, I gave my instinctive answer, but it’s not meant to be taken seriously.

Whatever happened to a third 28 Days Later movie?

We talked about it. We’ve got a cool idea for a third one, but it’s not something I want to work on directly. I had the story idea and (director) Danny (Boyle) liked it. It was a 28 Years Later storyline, but someone else has got to write it. I also think in truth that 28 Days was a small British movie. It’s not a big, Hollywood blockbuster. It’s not something that people are out there saying, ‘Please give us another.’

In 2012, you tried to reboot Judge Dredd. It didn’t connect, but there was a sequel comic that people went ballistic for a few years later. Did that make you think about why your version didn’t work?

I think what went wrong with it is what goes wrong with a lot of the things I write. It looks mainstream, but it actually isn’t. When you look at Dredd, it’s a pretty psychotic movie. It’s really violent, it’s got loads of drugs, it’s got a weird nihilism to it. There are some people that really dig that, but there are a lot that really don’t and they see something like that and think, ‘What’s this weird s—?’ I think one of the problems I’ve got is I write things that look more mainstream than they really are. And I’m afraid that’s about to happen (with Annihilation).

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