The Thing From Another World: Climate Of Fear

by John Arcudi, Jim Somerville (Illustrator), Richard Starkings (Letterer)

Book by Chuck Pfarrer, John Higgins, John Arcudi, Jim Somerville, Robert Jones, Brian Garvey

Genres: Comics, Horror, Science Fiction, Graphic Novels

117 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1993

About the author

John Arcudi has made a name for himself by scripting comics that manage to combine long-running subplots with impeccable characterization and action sequences, making for some of the most exciting and consistently good comics out today.

Reviews

[... · Rating 2 out of 5]

Surprisingly the first comic was better than it’s sequel; and the first one wasn’t really that great to begin with.

I don’t know why I was surprised that Childs was The Thing. It was obvious since no one could have survived that submarine explosion (from the first comic).. I guess it’s the magic of Keith David lol.

[Kaisersoze · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ostensibly forming the sequel to The Thing From Another World graphic novel (which was in and of itself a direct sequel to the events from John Carpenter's 1982 film), John Arcudi and team have corrected many of the issues with that preceding graphic novel by taking the action away from Antarctica, focusing only on one group of characters (rather than bouncing between several sets, none of whom last more than three pages), and allowing MacReady to be affected in a way not yet seen within his arc. The minor characters are also distinguishable and have a little bit of personality, making for more effective moments when they start to sprout three heads or grow spider legs from various parts of their body.

But while the story is quality, the artwork is all over the place. Some pages look fantastic; others like barely finished sketches with the requisite colouring to polish them up.

Recommended for fans of the movie who would like to see how MacReady and Child's story comes to an end.

3 Spider-Like Appendages Sprouting from a Decapitated Head for Climate of Fear.

Originally read this as a part of a THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD omnibus that collected the titular comic, the above-reviewed sequel, Eternal Vows and Questionable Research. Climate of Fear was by far the best of the lot.

[Timothy Benoit · Rating 3 out of 5]

Art and story are lackluster, as expected from this Era of Dark Horse. Pick up through Omnibus if you're a superfan or a completionist.

[Sam Nicholson · Rating 3 out of 5]

6/10

[Robin · Rating 2 out of 5]

This wasn’t great or anything, but it was definitely an improvement over the other one. In this one McReady wakes up on a base in mainland Argentina, and it’s honestly just pretty refreshing to at least have some new characters and something different going on. Also there’s a huge herd of sheep on the base and obviously one of them gets infected and it’s very tragic but also aww sheep.


The first issue is probably the strongest one, overall this is just kind of okay, but “okay” is still a definite improvement.


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[Harold · Rating 4 out of 5]

Despite John Carpenter's "The Thing" being one of my all-time favourite movies AND being a big comic book fan growing up, I never got around to reading any of the Dark Horse adaptations. Recently checked out an omnibus volume that collected all the comic story arks (The Thing From Another World, Climate Of Fear, Eternal Vows, and Questionable Research). The series takes off basically where the film left, with Mac and Childs in the Arctic - so it's as close to a direct sequel as we'll probably ever get. Overall, the comics do a good job of capturing the look and feel of Carpenter's film (except Eternal Vows, which was the weakest of the bunch in my opinion).

[Jon-keith Gary · Rating 4 out of 5]

I like to think of this as a sequel to the 1982 film. The story is just absolutely amazing.

[Elengendro · Rating 2 out of 5]

Pal gasto