More on RL. Stine's Man-Thing

>>88395569

>Marvel.com: Right, exactly. So having spent so many years reading comics and then writing about them at times, how did the experience of actually tackling comic book writing match up with years of being a fan and of imagining comic book characters?

>R.L. Stine: Back then I wanted to draw them. That’s what I wanted to be: the artist. But I had no talent, had no drawing talent of any kind. If I draw now, it looks like a third grader.

>I realized at a very young age—when I started to bring in my own little comic books in fourth grade and everyone would say, “You suck,” and “Those are terrible,”—I realized that I would have to write.

>Marvel.com: On the subject of art, as a writer who is used to writing prose, how has the transition been to having your words appear right with the art?

>R.L. Stine: I’ve always tried to be very visual. Like in my Goosebumps books. They are very simple books and everything I’ve always tried to make it so kids can always visualize the location, the setting, what is going on—you spend a lot of time describing where the characters are.

>In this it was a little different. In writing MAN-THING, I kind of left a lot of that up to the artist and mainly just concentrated on telling the story and on the dialogue. It was kind of like writing a script, like writing a TV script for something, where you don’t really have to concentrate that much on describing the backgrounds.

>The process is a new thing, it’s very different. It’s very strange to see all this finished art—first you see the sketches, then you see the pencils, then the inks, then it’s colored, and still there [are] no words. No words anywhere. To me that’s really bizarre.

>That came as quite a surprise that the [words] come on last.

>>88395585
>Marvel.com: Have you had a chance to see any of the artwork from German Peralta, Daniel Johnson, or Christopher Mitten on the first couple of issues?

>R.L. Stine: Oh, I’ve seen a lot of it!

>I love it. I love the [Tyler Crook] covers. I think just German is fabulous. He’s great with violence. They all are. They’re all real violent and I love that. [German] especially is just great with that.

>Marvel.com: You said earlier you wanted to do something different with Man-Thing and right out of the gate you start that by giving him/it speech back. You’re letting him exist beyond that silent shambling creature that he’s more or less only been for years now…

>R.L. Stine: Yeah, I needed to. Otherwise…Man-Thing is so…he’s so hideous. He’s just such an ugly character it is hard to take him seriously. So I thought I would add a lot of humor. That would be very hard if he couldn’t speak. So I have him getting his human abilities back. They’re coming back. And then, he’s struggling, he’s striving; he wants to be human again, of course.

>He’s very sarcastic—sort of in that Marvel mode. That kind of smart ass sarcastic dialogue. I think it helps the story a lot, not having him be that mute.

>Marvel.com: And one of the first things he does when he gets that power of speech is to head out to Hollywood.

>R.L. Stine: Yeah. He sees all the other Marvel characters and he thinks, “If Ant-Man can have a movie, well then why can’t I?”

>Then they tell him, “Your tests came back. You tested really poorly. You scared all the kids. You’re too ugly to be in the movies.”

>He asks if he can take the corporate jet back to the swamp then and they say, “Sorry, Ant-Man is using it.”

>>88395613
>Marvel.com: Besides the lack of critical reception and excitement when he gets to Hollywood, another thing that is causing stress for him is once he leaves the swamp, bad things start to happen there.

>R.L. Stine: Things are all out of order. Something is very wrong when he gets back. The animals aren’t acting right, nothing is right. It’s just…chaos.

>Marvel.com: What is the emotion then to come back to this almost prison and have to redouble his efforts to fix it, to save it, tying him even more tightly to it?

>R.L. Stine: He’s horrified. He’s very disappointed he didn’t make it in the movies and then he’s pulled back.

>But he doesn’t really have time to think about it. This woman he knew before, when he was a scientist, is kidnapped by snakes and everything is so wrong he knows he has to fix it. He has to find out why everything is going so berserk.

>So he doesn’t really have time to get into his thoughts. He is still thinking, “I was so close to back to human,” that kind of thing, but he can’t stop.

>And then, on top of that, he starts entering other realities.

Marvel.com: Given your affection for the black humor balanced against the violence, is it fair to say that MAN-THING will be defined by that tone?

>R.L. Stine: Yes, yes it is. And there’s also some insult humor. [Man-Thing] gets insulted walking the streets of Burbank. People are just horrible to him. I mean, he looks like a garbage heap.

>But I get serious too. There’s a lot of good violence, a lot of fighting, diving into all the worlds he has to save. Presenting Old Father who is the master of the swamp. It’s got a lot of comic book elements. This isn’t a satire.

>Marvel.com: In addition to the main stories in MAN-THING, each issue has a short straight horror tale as a backup with art by the likes of Daniel Johnson and Christopher Mitten.

>R.L. Stine: Well, I thought they should know it was me. So we did a four or five-page old fashioned horror comic [story] for each issue.

>Marvel.com: What would you tell the readers and life-long R.L. Stine fans considering adding this to their monthly pulls?

>R.L. Stine: If they enjoy my other work, then I think they are really going to enjoy this because it is the same combination of horror and humor, just taken to an all new medium and paired with great illustrations. I think they’ll love this.

Full interview: https://news.marvel.com/comics/56677/r-l-stine-makes-man-thing/

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>>88395613
>Man-Thing is so…he’s so hideous. He’s just such an ugly character it is hard to take him seriously. So I thought I would add a lot of humor. That would be very hard if he couldn’t speak. So I have him getting his human abilities back. They’re coming back. And then, he’s struggling, he’s striving; he wants to be human again, of course.
TED SALLIS GOT A HAPPY ENDING WRITE-OUT ALMOST TWO DECADES
MAN-THING'S LITERALLY ANIMATED SWAMP MUCK NOW
THE QUIPPY SHIT'S BASED ON PURE FALLICY YOU COULD BE RE-PRINTING DEMATTIES' RUN INSTEAD OF THIS FUCKERY

>>88395569

it is.
5 issues.

Marvel doesn't like announcing mini-series anymore though.

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>>88396751
Secret Wars rewrote the multiverse anon. Don't you recall?

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>>88396794
IT REWROTE EVERYTHING THE EXACT SAME FUCK OFF AND LET ME SEETHE
20 FUCKING YEARS AFTER THEY STOPPED PUBLISHING MAN-THING MID-CLIMAX AND THIS MAKES IT TO PRINT I'M LIVID

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>>88396751

>Man-Thing is so…he’s so hideous. He’s just such an ugly character it is hard to take him seriously. So I thought I would add a lot of humor. That would be very hard if he couldn’t speak. So I have him getting his human abilities back. They’re coming back. And then, he’s struggling, he’s striving; he wants to be human again, of course.

Funny, Steve Gerber once said he had problems in writing Man-Thing in the beginning because he was mute and emotionless, and yet he didn't change anything in the character and his Man-Thing run became one of the best comics.

So what gives Stine.

>>88395703
>>Marvel.com: In addition to the main stories in MAN-THING, each issue has a short straight horror tale as a backup with art by the likes of Daniel Johnson and Christopher Mitten.
>>R.L. Stine: Well, I thought they should know it was me. So we did a four or five-page old fashioned horror comic [story] for each issue.
I'm not excited about how he's going about the humor, but I'll probably pick it up for this.

>>88396751
>QUIPPY SHITS

Why do you pretend that you read comics?

This is either going to be the worst thing ever or the best thing ever.

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>>88397657
MAN-THING
DOESN'T
QUIP

>>88397736
>Marvel
Worst.

>>88397791
Yeah, but from the looks of things, this is Man-Thing having his former humanity dangled before him. And he's going to have to give it up, Flowers for Algernon style.

Another turd on Gerber's grave.

>>88396751
Is it possible for swamp muck to have memories of a human incarnation and think of itself as ex-human?

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>>88397980
THIS MAN-THING ISN'T FORMERLY HUMAN

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>>88398087
kek, well you have me there
Still pissed about that last Manny run tho

>>88398471
Have you read Goosebumps before? There are a lot with a twist ending.