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Blogs for Fun: The Thing vs The Blob

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  (Freddy999M) (thebigcheese9177) (JustADude) (Bored Seba) "I don't overeat. I only eat one meal a day... but my body has been one of those that has almost perfect assimilation, so everything I eat is assimilated, not lost." -Raymond Burr Space, such a wonderful place that brought us wonders and mysteries, but not everything is beautiful in it. Sometimes the creatures outside of our world are hungry, and they'll consume everything in their paths. On one side we have The Thing, the shapeshifting creature from John Carpenter, on the other The Blob, the all consuming mass from Chuck Russell. Let's see which hungry 80's monsters will win in a fight. Before We Start… For Thing we’re gonna be compositing between the original “Who Goes There?” novel by John W. Campbell, its comic adaptation and John Carpenter's film adaptation (obviously), the 2011 prequel, the various comics that branch off Carpenter’s canon (The Thing from Another World, Climate of Fear, Eterna...