u/BruceBannerfanboy

One thing that I love about comics is whenever artists pay homage to earlier concepts. Wanted to show some artwork from various artists who have drawn The Thing with his earlier dinosaur skin form.

The First two slides shows comic artist Arthur Adam’s depiction of The Thing with this early design, with slide three being a page excerpt from the book titled Jack Kirby Collector #85 that details Kirby’s original intention for The Thing’s design.

The following two slides showcase an example of Jack Kirbys sketch of his early Thing design next to his other Marvel character The Devil Dinosaur. The artwork from the rest of the slides belong to Todd Nauck, Giorgio Comolo, John Byrne, and Michael Golden respectively.

Just thought this would be cool to share!

Found some awesome behind the scenes footage of the Hulk vs Hulkbuster fight from Age of Ultron. Really great work put into one of the best action sequences in the MCU

Hey there! I posted this question over at the Fantastic Four subreddit, but wanted to get more thoughts/opinions on the topic over here in the actual Marvel Studios sub lol:

Let me start by saying that I think Ben Grimm already has a fantastic design in First Steps. His look in the film perfectly captures the 60s/Byrne/classic era of the FF comics that movie was emulating.

With that said, do you think Thing could use a slight size and height increase? I say this because while Thing isn't Hulk size, he's still generally depicted as being way larger than the average person (unless the comic is specifically emulating the classic 60s era). I put various pics of Hulk and Thing together/along with other heroes to compare them.

This isn't to say that First Steps got his size or height wrong, far from it. Just wanted to get some general opinions on the topic.

(Last few Thing digital sculpts done by artist Bruno

Verginio on ArtStation).

Let me start by saying that I think Ben Grimm already has a fantastic design in First Steps. His look in the film perfectly captures the 60s/Byrne/classic era of the FF comics that movie was emulating.

With that said, do you think Thing could use a slight size and height increase? I say this because while Thing isn’t Hulk size, he’s still generally depicted as being way larger than the average person (unless the comic is specifically emulating the classic 60s era). I put various pics of Hulk and Thing together/along with other heroes to compare them.

This isn’t to say that First Steps got his size or height wrong, far from it. Just wanted to get some general opinions on the topic.

(Last few Thing digital sculpts done by artist Bruno Verginio on ArtStation).

The art for the DC/Marvel short story *Identity War* was fantastic, but I wanted to highlight Ben Grimm in particular.

He just looks really great under Gary Frank’s style, all of the characters here do lol

Always really liked the original concept that Kirby came up with, that the Things skin was more like an alligator or an armored dinosaur instead of literal rocks.

Marvel has called back to the idea a few times in the past, mainly through John Byrnes FF run. Also in Marvel’s *Time Slip*, the artist Kelley Jones draws his reimagined Thing that resembles Godzilla. The idea was even seen outside of Marvel, when Alex Ross and Kurt Busiek played around with the concept within the anthology series *Astro City*. The analog satirical character for The Thing is literally a walking dinosaur man named Rex lol.

**TL;DR** It would be cool if The Thing had more of a Dinosaur theme instead of a Rock theme. But I get why it happened for simplicity.