I Didn’t Sleep for Years: The Man-Thing: Night of the Laughing Dead!
Do you like suicidal clowns? Do you like suicidal clowns that come back as creepy, sad ghosts? Do you like 70s pseudo-hippies exchanging youthful dialogue? [...]
Which Thing Came First: The Swamp or the Man?
Comics are a business. Amid the artwork and the writing, the beloved characters and detailed worlds and universes it is easy to forget that these guys* also want to make money. And in doing so certain ideas and concepts get [...]
A Brief Discussion About Cults in the 1970s
In the 1970s satanic cults were everywhere. Or at least that’s what popular culture would have you believe. In apartment complexes, suburban planned communities, and quiet rural towns – somewhere lurking beneath the all-too-normal exterior was a sinister group ready [...]
What You Watching? Man-Thing (2005)
In 2005 a film adaptation of the comic book character Man-Thing was released by Lions Gate Films. And I can say with full confidence that of all the films released in 2005 – this was definitely one of them. I [...]
Review: Man-Thing #2 (2017)
STORY BY: R.L. Stine ART BY: Christopher Mitten and German Peralta COLORS BY: Rachelle Rosenberg LETTERS BY: VC's Travis Lanham COVER BY: Mike Deodato Jr. and Tyler Crook In the previous review of issue #1 I wrote about how I didn’t really enjoy how Stein [...]
Review: Man-Thing #1 (2017)
STORY BY: Daniel Warren Johnson and R.L. Stine ART BY: German Peralta COLORS BY: Mat Lopes and Rachelle Rosenberg COVER BY: Tyler Crook The much-anticipated run by Goosebumps author R.L. Stine has arrived and it is undeniably okay. I will say right off I [...]
Comic Book Art: Man-Thing Helps Daredevil
Does it say something about me that this image has stuck with me for forty years? As a kid, I had this issue, and this panel in particular I thought was one of the coolest things I had ever seen. [...]
