Because ASTEN, motherfuckers.

This must be shared:

Oh wait...not a plant. Okay. Instead of legs, how about strangling vines?

Fine, then. Instead, how about...tentacles!

How about a cactus & a tarantula?

Do the sets on David Lynch’s Dune get any kind of shoutout? Everytime I watch that magnificent disaster I look at those sets & costumes and think, “Wow, so THAT’S where all the money went.”

Sure beats your brain not having the capacity for a sense of humor...

Someone’s probably already said it, but I’m betting this upsizing of the Thing is meant to dovetail with an inevitable cinematic one-on-one with the Hulk —to make it less lopsided than it would be if Grimm were more traditionally man-sized.

Oh pshaw —one crummy regime doesn’t unmake all that awesomeness.

Okay, “pompous & thin-skinned”, then.

I’d be cynical too, except that GRRM’s “filler” is worth more than the main story arcs of most other fantasy series.

...the Rooneys, the Maras...

Now THAT is an Angry Red Planet.

A little-known conflict in the comics industry about 30 years ago: the Michael Fleisher/Fantagraphics/Harlan Ellison libel suit. The current renaissance of comic book related movies might bring a ready-made audience in for this story of a popular comics writer who felt that he had been smeared by a well-known author &…

Artists for the project have yet to be announced.

I'm not about to run through 1K+ comments to see if it's been posted already, but I support the upside-down-super-star-destroyer theory with this:

...has sat abandoned since the 2008 financial crisis.

Nope.

It pains me that “fuckknuckle” (fuck-knuckle? fucknuckle?) is so woefully underutilized and underappreciated...perhaps its one of those words that only works within very specific verbal cadences. “Great gangly fuckknuckled twat” certainly has a quite a punch to it.

Y'all are missing some even better exchanges between them: