{"id":99,"date":"2004-11-01T22:46:26","date_gmt":"2004-11-01T22:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/2004\/11\/01\/monsters-on-the-prowl-15-the-thing-called-it\/"},"modified":"2004-11-01T22:46:26","modified_gmt":"2004-11-01T22:46:26","slug":"monsters-on-the-prowl-15-the-thing-called-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/99","title":{"rendered":"Monsters On The Prowl #15 [1972] &#8211; The Thing Called&#8230; It!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a reprint of the Kirby\/Ayers contribution to STRANGE TALES #82. I guess whoever it was who named the monsters was tired that week, so this one just got named &#8220;It&#8221;. I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;s mocked at the Atlas Monster reunions by Zzutak, Orrgo and Fin Fang Foom.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/11\/Monsters-On-The-Prowl-15-1972.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3033\" alt=\"Monsters On The Prowl #15 [1972]\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/11\/Monsters-On-The-Prowl-15-1972-701x1024.jpg\" width=\"448\" height=\"654\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/11\/Monsters-On-The-Prowl-15-1972-701x1024.jpg 701w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/11\/Monsters-On-The-Prowl-15-1972-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/11\/Monsters-On-The-Prowl-15-1972-624x911.jpg 624w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/11\/Monsters-On-The-Prowl-15-1972.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The story features another one of those castle owning mad scientists in an unspecified European country, driven mad with jealousy for the recognition given to a rival trying to create some artificial life. I love the bit where It starts to stand but falls. Looks like a monster who had too much to drink, especially given the odd fact that he&#8217;s wearing a suit. Anyway, he eventually comes to life thanks to the magical properties of quicksand, but turns out to be useless to a revenge seeking scientist thanks to a pesky respect for life that he got with his sentience. This eventually ends happily thanks to, apparently, the timely intervention of God.<\/p>\n<p>As silly as they are, I love the Atlas monster stories, which always look cool if nothing else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a reprint of the Kirby\/Ayers contribution to STRANGE TALES #82. I guess whoever it was who named the monsters was tired that week, so this one just got named &#8220;It&#8221;. I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;s mocked at the Atlas Monster reunions by Zzutak, Orrgo and Fin Fang Foom. The story features another one of those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","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\/99","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=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}