22, Woodrue's dilated pupils, in the close-up panel just after he tastes the Swamp Thing's tuber, are a deliberate if covert indication of drug use, nonetheless forbidden beneath the then-current variation of the Comics Code unless of course depicted as a "vicious routine." (Totleben states even further that Woodrue's subsequent use of an EEG machine was a smokescreen for the authentic strategy by which he tapped into the Green.