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Superhero Week: A look inside Marvel Anatomy – A Scientific Study Of The Superhuman

July 9, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There are over 100 unique illustrations in the book, and that translates into looking at (and into!) more than 60 characters.

Filed Under: Art, Books Tagged With: marvel, superhero week, superheroes, the thing, venom

UKGE 2022 Awards: The best RPGs and board games of the year

June 13, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

The UK’s largest and one of the most significant gaming conventions in Europe is over, and the UK Games Expo is done for another year. The busy event has many attractions, one of which is the influential UK Games Expo Awards. The UKGE 2022 Awards has two categories, Judges and People, which means two winners […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: aconyte, aliens: colonial marines Operations Manual, All Rolled Up, awards, exploding kittens, fantasy flight games, Free League Publishing, frostgrave, Iello, lord of the rings, magpie games, osprey games, parable games, root, shiver, the dee sanction, the thing, twilight: 2000, uk games expo, z-man games

The Thing comes to Vice Press

December 7, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There will be a regular version 24×36 inches in size and one with variant lava foil.

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: matt ferguson, posters, the thing, vice press

Drew Struzan’s lenticular of The Thing destined to invade homes

February 22, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Made famous by director John Carpenter, The Thing is a 1980s horror movie based on John W. Campbell Jr’s Who Goes There?, a novella published in 1938.

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: John Carpenter, posters, the thing, vice press

Fantastic Four trailer outlines the plot

April 19, 2015 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This is a re-imagining of Marvel’s longest-running superhero team. No more spaceship travel as the source for the Fantastic Four as it’s replaced with something suitably fantastic for this day and age. The four will have to team up to save Earth from a former friend. Due out this year the reboot stars Miles Teller […]

Filed Under: Movies Tagged With: Doctor Doom, fantastic four, marvel, the thing, trailers

Dead Space meets The Thing

March 16, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

This poster mashup is the work of Ron Guyatt and blends the art of Dead Space with the style of The Thing. The two go well together as The Thing was one of the inspirations for the Dead Space series. Via Geek Art Gallery.

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: dead space, posters, the thing

The Thing from the Fantastic Four in pumpkin form

October 24, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Redditor Wizardtig created and submitted this pumpkin version of The Thing. Okay, it’s true that we can see quite a bit of the skeletal structure of wood beneath. This isn’t cheating. This is engineering. Afterall the The Thing stands at 6’4″ and only uses 11 pumpkins.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: fantastic four, halloween, the thing

Who fights who? The Avengers Vs X-Men match ups

January 13, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Marvel announced a series of Avengers Vs X-Men titles. There’s a webpage up over at Marvel.com/AvX that’s worth checking out if you’re a fan. I want to know who will fight whom. After all – are they realling going to put Iron Man up against Magneto? It looks like Marvel have been scattering exclusives of […]

Filed Under: Comics Tagged With: beast, black widow, daredevil, hulk, iron man, Magneto, psylocke, spider-man, spider-woman, Storm, The Avengers, the thing, Thor, X-Men

Pingu does The Thing

January 4, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

When I write that Pingu does The Thing – I mean that he remakes John Carpenter’s The Thing. I’m sure Pingu can do many things. Pingu, of course, is an animated putty penguin. John Carpenter’s The Thing is a classic, important but rather gory horror encounter. In fact, The Thing’s gore only sometimes creeps into […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: John Carpenter, the thing

The Thing: The Musical

October 14, 2011 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Are you a fan of John Carpenter’s The Thing? Gore meets alien invader. Gore meets ice. Gore meets more gore… but it’s a sci-fi movie so that’s alright! Jon Kaplan and Al Kaplan, the team behind Conan the Barbarian: the Musical, are at it again with The Thing: The Musical. This time around it sounds […]

Filed Under: Music Tagged With: John Carpenter, the thing

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