Panel showing the comic book character Darkseid holding a mother box as he tries working out the Anti-Life equation from Saga of the Swamp Thing Vol 2 #62 (Published 1987) by Rick Veitch and Alfredo Alcala references two panels from Herge’s early 1938 version of The Adventures of Tintin: The Black Island as published in Le Petit Vingtieme?

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The Saga of the Swamp Thing Vol 2 #62 (Published 1987) Darkseid and the Anti-Life equation panel by Rick Veitch and Alfredo Alcala

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The Anti-Life equation trail

a) Panel showing the comic book character Darkseid holding a mother box as he tries working out the Anti-Life equation from Saga of the Swamp Thing Vol 2 #62 (Published 1987) by Rick Veitch and Alfredo Alcala

 

b) References two panels from Herge’s early 1938 version of The Adventures of Tintin: The Black Island as published in Le Petit Vingtieme?

In the comic book story The Adventures of Tintin: The Black Island, there is a scene where Tintin discovers the flight suit that later is redrawn simply as a flight jacket, and he discovers a ripped up note. In the original  version of the illustrations, the pieces are shown against a black background. the readers are asked to assemble the pieces of the letter , and later it was redrawn showing a green background  that’s grass.  It might look as if against the black background that the pieces of the jigsaw resembles a mysterious asteroid field with fragments of writing and symbols 

The note shows information leading Tintin to a location that’s a triangular drop off point for a plane to drop sacks of newly printed fake money. 

(Thanks to Mims Tryon for sending me in this direction in a chat)

c) The crouching Tintin becomes the front of Darkseid’s face with  Tintin’s head becoming Darkseid’s nose

d) The fragments of the letter loosely inspire the idea of mysterious symbols scattered around the board display