My personal gold standard is Walt Simonson’s run in the 90s (translation: the comics I read when I was 14 will always secretly be “the best”). Hickman’s run? Loved the ideas, but the rotating artists made it feel like channel surfing.
And man—I wish we got a Tim Sale prestige series with the Fantastic Four. Pretty sure he drew Ben in Daredevil: Yellow but not in Hulk: Grey. My trades are juuuust out of reach. Anybody remember? A whole series of moody, blocky Ben Grimm shapes he could’ve carved… alas.
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The Thing is forever the sad second fiddle. He’ll never be the Hulk. He knows it. We know it. And that’s what makes him great. Oh—and shoutout to the Reilly/Mosley miniseries where Ben actually got laid in full rock-monster form. Not a weird gag. Just a story beat. It was… a choice.