The Thing #5 is a clobbering good time and sets up a conclusion with a team-up that you would never expect! Clobber first, ask questions later! Read Full Review

Final ThoughtsThere are no words to adequately capture the tomfoolery going on in The Thing #5. You get a lot of answers to mysterious things happening up to this point, but the answers are more bizarre than you could have guessed. This comic makes about as much sense as a shark attack in an ocean made of cotton candy on the planet Venus. Read at your own peril. Read Full Review

And there it is. It had to be that way after all of that. Mosley had a plan but the delivery was all over the place but somehow salvages the end of this issue. Now I'm ready for the end of this and maybe reading it again just to see if It was me or not and how did we get here. Reilly's art is as consistent as can be and the quality is there with the same befitting colors from Bellaire.

At last the creators pull back the curtain and explain the plot. And dang it, I really like the explanation. Ben's new pals make a ton of sense now.

The art remains delicious and is still the best part of the package.

Though I understand the logic now, it's not quite good enough to defuse my crankiness over the last few issues. I'm not as patient as Ben Grimm is with foreshadowing that stays in neutral gear for months. When there's not a lot of other substance to distract from the mysteries it's especially infuriating. (e.g., Walt Simonson teased Surtur for YEARS in his Thor run, but Thor was doing tons of awesome stuff in the meantime.)

To support my position, I point to the way all the short-term foreshadowing about Bobby and Amaryllis works in this issue. It's terrific because it's paid off within the issue instead of meandering for months as "weird for the sake of weird". more