Besides being the basis for some top-notch internet puerility, Marvel’s fear-hating swamp-dweller seems like a good fit for Stine’s creepy crawly sensibility, especially given how many swamp monsters and other old-school horror creations cropped up in Goosebumps. (Plus, both series have plenty of throwbacks to old ’50s horror comics, with all their mean-spirited endings and supernatural vengeance.)
That being said, it sounds like Stine will mix up the Man-Thing’s normal M.O.—which usually involves barely sentient wanderings into weird situations, becoming enraged by people feeling fear, and then burning them with his powerful touch—by imbuing the character with intelligence and a sarcastic sense of humor. The series will debut next March, with Man-Thing—depicted by cover artist Tyler Crook and artists German Peralta and Daniel Johnson—heading to Hollywood to figure out why nobody’s made a movie about him yet.
[via io9]
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