Marvel's Man-Thing Returns In Self Titled Ongoing Series

this is some crappy art. hope the story is better.

Pffft that's a poor man's Swamp Thing :p
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Those preview panels were, uh... not what I was expecting.

The art looks kind of cool though, definitely don't think it looks "crappy". Eager to see more.

I believe he is tripping balls

so basically Marvel saw that Swamp Thing was back to critical acclaim and now they want something to rival it? Honestly looks kinda terrible

That last pic reminded me of some Hulk supervillain/supporting character called Flux during the early 00's.

Ballsy, definitely an attempt at getting some DCnU readers. That is a horrible preview though, Man-Thing just looks odd.

Pass. No matter how good the story is, it wont help the eye sore that's the art.

Also, since when did Man-Thing have thought processes higher than a carrot?

The design of Man Thing has always disturbed me but I might give this a swing.

Perhaps the return of DC'sSwamp Thing prompted Marvel to give the spotlight to one of their classic, "Silver Age" characters, Man-Thing.

This. 100%.

Um yea, no thanks, I'll stick with Swamp Thing

Maybe if Man-Thing didn't look like a weird elephant man and looked more like he does on the awesome Art Adams cover, this would be cool.

sorry marvel Swamp Thing wins

It will be canceled after 9 issues.

@sEsposito7 said:

Perhaps the return of DC'sSwamp Thing prompted Marvel to give the spotlight to one of their classic, "Silver Age" characters, Man-Thing.

This. 100%.

When I saw this article I knew the words "prompted" "Swamp Thing" "Success" "DC" and "by" would be in it. I was only wrong about Success

So what exactly is infernal about Man-Thing?

I guess I'm the only person that likes the art style.

Looking forward to a Groot crossover.

Wish it was a different character.

Yeah--I think I'll stick with our boy Snyder's Swamp Thing. :-)

looks as uninteresting as DC's man-thing.

What the hell was that?...

I grew up with Man-Thing (I read him religiously in the 1970s) and I was hoping that Infernal Man-Thing would be a return to his glory days, but the preview leaves me feeling more hollow than filled with excitement. I love the new Swamp Thing series and it looks like Marvel is trying to cash in on its popularity. If Marvel is trying do this, please write great story-lines and hire artists that know what they're doing.

Eh swamp thng art looks much better

This is what they have to rival Swamp Thing? Sad.

Man-Thing was one of the first Marvel comics I read, so i would glady love to revisit this character, but that art is SOOOOO bland and odd. Swamp-Thing is incredable right now and this doesn't exactly look like the right way for Marvel to combat Dc's swamp creature.

Why does it matter if the idea came from Swamp Thing's success? Would the quality be any different if it was a spontaneous decision? Will the writer put in less effort now? But I'm sure you're all right, this will be terrible, let's not reserve judgement until we've read it, that would be crazy.

like....this is laughable right? marvel really just is incredibly boring

Man-Thing... :(

It's unreleased Steve Gerber work. That alone deserves a huge release. Gerber was a genius, years ahead of his time, and the chance to read new work from one of my favorite creators is a huge deal for me.

And, yes, Man-Thing is clearly a rip-off of Swamp Thing. Which, is an amazing feat considering he debuted 2 months earlier than Swamp Thing. And that both are based on The Heap from the 40s. LOL. I'm honestly not even 100% sure that The New 52 Swamp Thing's success has any baring on the release of this, as I remember hearing about this months ago, but who knows, maybe.

Hopefully Marvel can also find some unreleased Bill Mantlo work next.

Is it me or does anyone else think Marvel got a slight bit jealous of DCs success with Swamp Thing

It made me laugh =).

I will get it.

@RipperMadrox: Yea, Kevin Nowlan announced this a few months ago.

http://kevinnowlan.blogspot.com/2012/03/finally-man-thing-graphic-novel.html

And it looks like he has been working on this since the 80's.

What are your current projects?

I just did a Goon story for the black and white series that Dark Horse is publishing. I’ve done a few covers for DC and a Red Sonja cover for Dynamite. I just did an illustration for MAD magazine that’s in the current issue. I’m working on an old Man-Thing graphic novel that I started in the 80’s. I’m going to see if I can finish painting the last dozen pages so the thing can finally get published.

http://www.de-code.net/interviste_scheda.asp?id=15&ver=1

I like Man-Thing in Thunderbolts, he was adorable, had the thought processing ability of a rock, and still somehow managed to be smarter than half the team. The fact that he would always just sit there and take the beating and then come to the team's rescue when they needed it was funny to me, and I liked the idea of using him as a transport and everyone on the team just being okay with it and finding the reactions of outsiders funny, meanwhile everyone else on the team is all "yeah, this is what we do. What, you don't do this?"

I'll give it a shot, cause I like the character. But, the art is already eh, so not a great start.

haha Man-thing got nothing on Swampthing! ;p just sayin'

haven't read the rest of the topic but this isn't an ongoing.

it's a 3 issue miniseries written by man-thing's main writer gerber before he died.

Yeah, read the rest of the topic now.

This still isn't an ongoing.

I know little to nothing about Man-Thing... but color me interested! Makes me think of a very "Creepy Looney Tunes".

And the award for the most WTF preview goes to.........

Honestly I'm happy to see another character in Marvel thats not Wolverine get a ongoing albeit will probably get cancelled in the future

I think this looks pretty good. I've never read any of Gerber's Man-Thing work. I'd like to start with the earlier stuff.

I've been loving Man-Thing in Thunderbolts (which is where he's been, Sara :P) but this just looks terrible. Kev Walker's rendition looks so much cooler:

Well, it sounded Interesting...until I saw the art. Man, that is horrible art...

Unless, Howard the Duck is the supporting character in this book, then I'm in ;)

So, Avengers Academy isn't selling what it should be and might get cancelled (So I hear), but they'll put our Man-Thing? Ok.

That's fine.

Will buy. I'll also vomit after overexposure to this atrocious art.

Art looks alright to me, but yeah, Swamp Thing for Marvelites, nothing more. And just how did an anvil get flung into a swamp all of a sudden to hit him?! O_o And why does Man-Thing resemble an Ithorian?!

I really liked the man thing in the thunderbolts. He is just misunderstood.

It looks really bad. Really, really bad.

Is it wrong that I find man thing slightly cute?

If its a mini-series, I'll pick it up. If it's ongoing, then nope.

@lykopis: Or you could pick up the first story arc and then if don't like it drop it