Sludge was yet one more comic book series from the upstart Malibu Comics under its Ultraverse brand which briefly brought together a gaggle of successful comic talents eager to mimic the startling wild success of the Image boys. Suddenly the comics market of the early 90's (over a quarter of a century ago now...sheesh) was awash in creator-owned projects, and comics which were all adjuncts of larger continuities, some so enmeshed that they were never allowed time to develop anything approximating a specific character of their own. Sludge was better than most because Steve Gerber tried to bring to the world an urban variation of the Man-Thing character he'd made his bones on some years before. Here is a contemporaneous interview with Gerber in which he discusses his then new series.
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