{"id":269,"date":"2005-02-22T10:53:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-22T10:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/2005\/02\/22\/giant-size-man-thing-3-save-me-from-the-weed\/"},"modified":"2005-02-22T10:53:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-22T10:53:00","slug":"giant-size-man-thing-3-save-me-from-the-weed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/269","title":{"rendered":"Giant-Size Man-Thing #3 [1975] &#8211; Save Me From the Weed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reprinted from STRANGE TALES #94 (1962) is this 6-page Kirby\/Ayers story.  Some leakage from an atomic experiment winds up in the garden of millionaire Lucius Farnsworth, which is tended by George, a talented if somewhat tame gardener, who&#8217;s happy to stay as a gardener rather than open up his own landscaping business, as Fansworth urges.  The radiation cause one plant to mutate into an intelligent weed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1834\" title=\"mt3\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/02\/mt3.jpg\" alt=\"mt3\" width=\"575\" height=\"824\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/02\/mt3.jpg 575w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/02\/mt3-209x300.jpg 209w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now that&#8217;s a great transformation scene.  Anyway, the Weed develops mental powers and a desire to rule the world, so it makes Farnsworth sleep while it rests to build its powers.  Fortunately George comes by and chops down the Weed, not realizing that he&#8217;s saving the world.  Farnsworth comes to the realization that everyone has their place in the grand scheme, or something like that.  It closes with another one of those &#8220;world balloons&#8221; with a shot of the Earth with some dialogue coming out if it.<\/p>\n<p>This is a really attractive story, with some nice background artwork, and a nice looking creative monster.  One of my favourite of the monster stories of the era.<\/p>\n<p>Published 1975<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reprinted from STRANGE TALES #94 (1962) is this 6-page Kirby\/Ayers story. Some leakage from an atomic experiment winds up in the garden of millionaire Lucius Farnsworth, which is tended by George, a talented if somewhat tame gardener, who&#8217;s happy to stay as a gardener rather than open up his own landscaping business, as Fansworth urges. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genre","category-science-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}