NYC’s villains are lining up to be clobbered by the Ever-Lovin’ Blue-Eyed Thing in a new five-issue limited series by Tony Fleecs and Justin Mason this May.
The story begins when Ben Grimm steps away from the Fantastic Four for a bit to take down a criminal conspiracy with ties to his childhood on Yancy Street.
Fleecs said “What I love about Ben Grimm is that he’s just a regular hardworking guy—who happens to have super powers. He’s Jack Kirby. He’s not easily impressed by all of the outlandish, cosmic stuff constantly going on around him.”
Fleecs is looking forward to all of the unique match-ups for the Thing in the new series, and said “The fun thing about this book is trying to figure out— ‘okay, then what WOULD surprise the Thing? What WOULD catch him off guard?’ In that spirit, we’re throwing every villain in the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe at him. Trying to pit him against some opponents that you wouldn’t expect. We’ve got Leonard Kirk drawing The Thing! Believe me, you’re gonna see ol’ Benjy clobber some guys he’s never clobbered before.”
Check out Nick Bradshaw’s cover and a variant cover by Greg Land below and look for the first issue of The Thing on May 21.
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