Sump Thing emerges
Sump Thing was an Apocalypse Beast. Charles X. Claremont brought him together with Woman Thing and the two Beasts began to mate, crushing Claremont between them.[1]
He later merged with the Artist and Woman Thing to become Fred, Ethel and the Little Fellow with the Hair.
Basis[]
Sump Thing is a parody of Swamp Thing from DC Comics.
Dave Sim on Woman Thing[]
"I decided to mix in a parody of two muck monsters that had been published simultaneously and, by all reports, coincidentally, by Marvel and DC. Marvel had a series called Man-Thing about a large shambling green monster who burned people to death if they showed any fear. Sort of a double-bind considering that there is only one natural reaction to seeing a ten foot green monster coming towards you. DC published Swamp thing, a wonderful mixture of Frankenstein and The Creature from The Black Lagoon. Marvel was also on a kick at this time about protecting their trademark on major characters by doing female versions of them. They ended up doing two around the same time -- Spider-Woman and She-Hulk. The implication of this move, at least in my mind, was that any publisher doing a female version of a Marvel character that wasn't Spider-Woman or She-Hulk would have free rein to use those characters -- Thingette, The Woman Torch. So taking the bull by the horns, I decided to do Woman-Thing."[2]
References[]
- ↑ Cerebus No. 25
- ↑ Swords of Cerebus, Volume Six, "Introduction to issues 23-25"