Every Sunday here at Copland Estates, we have pancakes for breakfast. Today, while my 5 year old son, Stewart, and I waited in anticipation for the Tie Fighter shaped pancakes Jackie was making us, we flipped through one of the comics that lay on the kitchen table.

The comic was The Thing #23 and Stewart loved it! He particularly loved the scenes where Johnny Storm is throwing the pies at a frustrated Thing and where the Thing is throwing Mr. Fantastic around after learning he could have changed back to Ben Grimm, at any time (If only Tarianna hadn’t killed his human self while on the Beyonder’s “Secret Wars” world. D’oh!). Stewart then began to refer to himself as Ben Grimm/The Thing for a large chunk of  the day.

This one is for my little Ben Grimm/Thing.

Ink and whiteout on paper. Tones done in Photoshop.