Floronic Man

What is it? I literally have it pulled up here.

The Floronic Man.

Floronic Man.

Of course.

Who could forget? I pulled up the scene on YouTube here so we can watch it now to really complete the Swamp Thing.

Go back like 30 seconds.

I was in Poison Ivy, and I'm at that point where we've killed Rudroop, or is it Floronic? Floronic, man.

And now we're doing all this resetting up for the next stuff, which is fine, but I want to get to Bad Seeds, which ties in with the new main Batman by Matt Fraction, and I read two and three and four of that.

I met the Minotaur, and he seems fucked up.

Guys, I'm going to do something that might get me fired from this network.

It's Floronic Man.

Oh, Floronic Man.

Do I still have my job?

Papa Marcus, I've got to feed my son.

Yeah.

Wood Rue, did I do it right? Yeah.

The Floronic Man? Yeah.

What exactly are we embalming? The best source for us is Saga of the Swamp Thing number 21, entitled The Anatomy Lesson.

When Jason Woodrow, also known as the Floronic Man, examines Swamp Thing... after he was shot and seemingly killed by the corrupt General Avery Sunderland.

Woodrow was hired to perform an autopsy and he discovered something extraordinary.

Swamp Thing possesses structures resembling a brain, heart, lungs, liver, and kidneys.

Who kind of, you get the...

It's not really you get the sense, it's, it's very laid out that this Dr. Woodrow's kind of had a past, and the general's kind of bringing him in to, to be a specialist on this, and you later f- find out that it's Floronic Man, which I'll get to that part in a minute as well, which was really cool.

But what Dr. Woodrow does is starts dissecting the Swamp Thing.

And as he's doing it, he's removing vital organs one by one, and he kind of comes to a conclusion that he does not require those vital organs like a human would.

Like, he can't die, right? Like, if he doesn't need his organs.

Um, so I thought, I thought that was great.

Floronic Man was great, where he's in the, I think it was in the shower and he starts changing.

Uh, eventually ends up killing, um, he ends up releasing Swamp Thing at the end, uh, because the general kind of pissed him off, uh, 'cause he wasn't allowed to continue to experiment and examine the Swamp Thing.

He was shot and believed dead, Swamp Thing was.

And, um, Jason Woodrue, The Floronic Man, revealed that, um-

[laughs]

[laughs] Of course.

It's funny that Moore became so disenchanted with DC when he obviously, while he was doing Swamp Thing, loved bringing up characters-

Yeah

... and reinterpreting them and, and just like, um, Jason Woodrue, the Floronic Man is like, that's a great arc- [laughs]

Yeah

And he points out to her that they're sending out these wood elementals who are essentially like the knights for the parliament of the trees.

And they look like Just kind of like Floronic Man from Alan Morris.

Where there are these big woody, you know, kind of like skeletons, but not really.

They have all of the sticks and branches coming up.

Yes, he did.

And he was also Floronic Man in Batman and Robin.

Yes, yes.

With the crazy hair,

yeah.

I mean, he was the professor for like a moment.

If you want a good Floronic Man, go watch Swamp Thing.

For like the 15 seconds he's in it.