Uh oh, Reynolds had to show something on the last page–an ominous reveal of future Viking Thing incidents I think–and he couldn’t do it.
I’m getting to hate those moments in comics, where writers do something totally natural for film and then the artist can’t get the point across.
Otherwise, Reynolds’s art continues to be fantastic. The really gross Thing moments are great here, making me wish it was a real comic and not just some online thing.
Niles’s script is mostly action and it works. Until that confusing last page anyway.
What’s most interesting, having only read the comics and seen the 1982 Thing, is it seems like Niles’s Thing is unrelated. Same species, different alien. It doesn’t have me racing out to see the new movie to find out because Niles doesn’t draw any attention to it.
Sure, Northman promotes the movie, but not very well.
In defense of the artist, these days licensed comics rarely have much of a big name artist in them.