A review by depreydeprey
Man-Thing by Steve Gerber: The Complete Collection, Volume 1 by

4.0

I feel like I've always landed on the Swamp Thing side of this nerd fight and never spent much time with this Marvel character and after trying and quitting R.L. Stine's dreadful take on Man-Thing I'm surprised I ever picked this up. I'm glad I did. Man-Thing is a silent, lurching creature that was once a scientist and lady's man named Ted Sallis who injects himself with a modified version of the super soldier formula right before crashing his car into the Everglades and is transformed into this weird, mindless beast. Man-Thing is a straight horror comic from the jump with some over the top political grandstanding (the main bad guy in the series is a land developer named F.A. Schist) thrown in. The stories are self contained and almost never have guest stars other than the odd Ka-Zar or Thing crossover plus a mystifying Howard the Duck story line. The magazine stories are really good and dark and when the stories stay in the swamp Steve Gerber tells some very good stories.