History ComicBook / TheThingFromAnotherWorld

** ''Eternal Vows'' ends up on a somewhat sad note. [[spoiler:[=MacReady=]'s, and by extension Rowan's, actions to destroy the Thing for good end up being AllForNothing - despite the town of Wallace burning to the ground and the Gettysburg blowing up, the Jenny-Thing manages to survive as a detached head and escape into the sea, much to [=MacReady=]'s horror. The ending is still too ambiguous on how severe the consequences would be.]]

* {{Jerkass}}: Erskine.

* OffModel: Though ''Climate of Fear'' has undoubtedly the best renditions of the Things in any of the five comics, the artists can't quite seem to decide how they want to draw the human characters, whose appearance tends to differ drastically from panel to panel.
** Mostly everyone besides the Thing itself in ''Eternal Vows'' as well.

* DeathBySex: A variation in ''Eternal Vows''; [[spoiler:Powell]] has sex with [[spoiler:Jenny]] at the beginning of the first issue, which leaves enough Thing cells in her system to fully transform her by the end of the issue.

* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: In the last issue of ''Climate of Fear'', Agapito suggests attacking the Things, saying that even if they die they'll die as men, not monsters. Similarly, in ''Eternal Vows'' [[spoiler:Detective Rowan]] shoots himself before he can be assimilated.

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Detective Rowan]] remains behind to cover [=MacReady=] when he swims for the Gettysburg at the end of ''Eternal Vows'', as he can't swim.

* BaitAndSwitch: In the first issue of ''Climate of Fear'' it appears that Agapito shot [=McReady=] dead when the latter was gunning down a sheep herd in order to weed out the potential Thing, [[Film/TheThing1982 similarly to what Gary did to the Norwegian pilot in the original film]]. Dr. Viale even calls him out on that, except in the next panel Agapito reveals that he used a tranquilizer dart instead and that [=McReady=] is still alive, albeit knocked out.

** ''Eternal Vows'' ends up on a somewhat sad note. [[spoiler:[=McReady's=], and by extension Rowan's, actions to destroy the Thing for good end up being AllForNothing - despite the town of Wallace burning to the ground and the Gettysburg blowing up, the Jenny-Thing manages to survive as a detached head and escape into the sea, much to [=McReady=]'s horror. The ending is still too ambiguous on how severe the consequences would be.]]

* '''''The Thing from Another World: Eternal Vows''''' -- 1993, 4 issues, written by David [=DeVries=], pencils by Paul Gulacy. An American fisherman is infected by a piece of the Thing left over at the end of the first story, and subsequently infects his New Zealander girlfriend, though this time the Things intend to quietly survive together rather than assimilating everything in sight. [=MacReady=] shows up once again to put an end to that plan.

* '''''The Thing from Another World''''' -- 1991, 2 issues, written by Chuck Pfarrer, artwork by John Higgins. [=MacReady=] is rescued by a Japanese research vessel, but quickly escapes and destroys what remains of Outpost 31. An American commando team finds him, but after their extraction goes badly wrong, they are forced to trek to an Argentinian base for help.
* '''''The Thing from Another World: Climate of Fear''''' -- 1992, 4 issues, written by John Arcudi, pencils by Jim Somerville. After an unsuccessful attempt to kill the Thing by drowning it at the end of the previous story, [=MacReady=] is taken to mainland Argentina. Unfortunately, one of the Argentinian party is infected, and [=MacReady=] faces the challenge of stopping the Thing in a much warmer climate.

* '''''The Thing from Another World: Questionable Research''''' -- 1993, written by Ed Martin, pencils by Ted Naifeh. Ignoring the three previous stories, an American research team visits the remnants of Outpost 31 and salvages all the surviving Thing biomatter. It turns out that Blair's prediction of how quickly the Thing could assimilate all life on Earth was about twenty times too slow, and predictably Things start thawing out and escaping. Unlike the other stories in the series, this was a four-part story serialized in ''Dark Horse Presents''.
* '''''The Thing: The Northman Nightmare''''' -- 2011, written by Steve Niles, artwork by Patric Reynolds. Released as a web-exclusive tie-in to ''Film/TheThing2011'', a second Thing spacecraft is revealed to have landed in Greenland over a millennium before the events of the films. A party of Vikings arrive in a remote village to find that most of its population has been slaughtered, and that the survivors are not who they appear to be.

* CommanderContrarian: Erskine, the head of the Navy SEAL team from ''The Thing From Another World'', believes [=MacReady=] to be a homicidal madman and ignores his warnings about the Thing after seeing the ruins of Outpost 31. While this seems rational, he takes this UpToEleven when he ignores everything [=MacReady=] tells him about the Thing even after seeing it in action. [[spoiler:This winds up getting him infected.]]

** On top of making a '''ton''' of retcons as to how the Thing works, ''Eternal Vows'' mistakenly identifies the research team that first dug it up as being Swedish, rather than Norwegian.

* DownerEnding: ''Questionable Research'', big-time. [[spoiler:A seagull has been infected by the Thing, and if the scientists' estimates are correct, will infect the whole world within six months]].

** Horde in ''The Northman Nightmare'', at least until his hand regrows...

** The protagonist of the Northman Nightmare when he realizes there's one too many women. He does it again when he notices his friend's hand has mysteriously regrown.

*** A confirmation actually. The long haired one inexplicably has both hands, despite having lost one at the start of the story.

* VillainDecay: Whereas in the film and in the two previous comics, the Things were depicted as being eager to infect and assimilate all life on Earth, ''Eternal Vows'', for some unexplained reason, just has [[spoiler:Powell and Jenny]] remaining mostly human mentally, and just deciding to stay in one town and consume its residents to sustain themselves. Lessened later on however, after [[spoiler:Jenny]] infects a local CasanovaWannabe and then her co-worker, who immediately start behaving like all the other Things and starts off a new wave of assimilation. Even then, however, the newly-created Things take to just attacking everyone in sight during broad daylight, though for what it's worth, this is consistent with the comics' portrayal, where Things are capable of transforming their victims in mere seconds.

* ContemptibleCover: The cover of ''Eternal Vows'' issue two depicts a Thing breaking up from under the floorboards and attacking Jenny, who of course is wearing lingerie... despite the fact that anyone who had read the first issue probably knows that [[spoiler:Jenny had already been fully transformed into a Thing by the end of that issue]].

* RealityEnsues:
** At the start of ''Climate of Fear'' [=MacReady=] knocks out Agapito with blunt force in order to gun down the sheep which may be infected. After regaining his senses and tranquillizing Mac, Agapito spends the rest of the comic with the top of his head bandaged.
** Also during the final issue of the same comic [[spoiler:Agapito, after slashing his own arm off and then jumping out of the window, still gets weaker over time due to blood loss and has to be assisted by Dr. Viale.]]
** In the first story, Erskine refuses to listen to anything [=MacReady=] tells him about the Thing and dismisses everything Mac says as nonsense seemingly out of principle. [[spoiler:He turns out to be infected at the end of the story, almost certainly because of his refusal to learn about the Thing’s M.O.]]

* SequelInAnotherMedium: ''The Thing From Another World'' essentially kickstarted the comic book sequels for the movie which in turned lead into ''Climate of Fear'' and ''Eternal Vows''. ''Questionable Research'' can be see as a stand-alone ContinuityReboot.

''The Thing from Another World'' is a comic series by Creator/DarkHorseComics. Though sharing the same name as the film ''Film/TheThingFromAnotherWorld'', in actuality it's a ComicBookContinuation of the storyline of John Carpenter's ''[[Film/TheThing1982 The Thing]]'', presumably taking the name of the earlier adaptation to avoid confusion with the Marvel character who shares his name with Carpenter's film.

* ComicBookContinuation: ''The Thing From Another World'' essentially kickstarted the comic book sequels for the movie which in turned lead into ''Climate of Fear'' and ''Eternal Vows''. ''Questionable Research'' can be see as a stand-alone ContinuityReboot.