I don't get it. Maybe you just had to be there when vertigo ripped up the rules of comics, maybe it's just so influential that it's now a tepid cliché, but I'm struggling to see what all the fuss is about. There are a few sequences that have interesting layout and design (the dream sequence in particular) but the art is a mess and the story is pretty miserable. Some of it feels like a pale imitation of Moore's swamp thing run, complete with gratuitous sexual assault of a young female character who magically loses her clothing a few issues later. I read preludes a while ago and didn't feel like following on, but as this is free via prime reading I thought I'd give it a punt, but I clearly made the right decision.