King-Sized Annual! All New! The Thing and The Man Called Nova!

"When Strike The Monitors!"

Marvel Two-in-One was the Marvel series in the 1970s and 1980s that featured The Thing teaming up with a random hero to fight what were usually simple and lighthearted stories. This annual, published in 1978, featured The Thing teaming up with Nova, a Marvel character that has been around for decades without ever finding his niche, either in universe or out. The story features an alien race called "The Monitors" that come to earth. The Monitors seek perfection, meaning they are programmed to destroy, because all planets fall short of their standards of perfection. The Monitors are gigantic aliens in blue and orange suits, and even in the story, the Thing refers to them as "Galactus rejects". This is familiar territory, both in-universe and out. But wait! The Monitors ships are powered by giant women in comas. Those women, along with wearing bright purple and powder blue disco

Somewhere in the northwoods darkness a creature walks upright
And the best advice you may ever get is don't go out at night!
--Steve Cook, "The Legend" (1987).

"Every small town has something like this happen."
--graveyard worker, Halloween (1978).

I was going to recap Free Comic Book Day, but then I realized that I was mostly repeating what I wrote last year on the subject. I have been filming the local event for thirteen years, missing only

Omnia Discordia

The title and position primarily attributed to Pungenteel. Others claim it is one of the titles of Metatron or, alternatively, of Douma. Some even believe that Pungenteel is but a character in a chemotherapy-induced hallucination. Most don't care one way or the other. Everyone is probably correct, but it makes him no less real, no?

"And therefore as a stranger give it welcome.
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