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Acclaimed novelist Walter Mosley is going to be crisscrossing the Marvel U this fall, simply wear't concern - he has back-up: the Thing. After comme il faut one of the most favorite living novelists with law-breaking fiction much as the Easy Rawlins books, Mosley makes his comic book debut in a five-issue The Matter series with artist Tom Reilly.

Check out this four-page preview of The Thing #1:

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The Thing #1 trailer

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According to Marvel Comics, Mosley and Reilly's The Thing serial publication testament send the meditative Ben Grimm on a travel that'll inedible on almost all corners of the Marvel U, with equal mixture of fighting and conversing.

Mosley's fascination for comic books - and the Topnotch Four - in fastidious, goes backrest to his childhood. Growing up in the late '50s and '60s in Los Angeles, Mosley snuck comics into the house subordinate the nose of a father who disapproved of them. This fascination with the FF LED him to understand that "entertainment, education, and art could all coexist in one form" as he states in the mid-'00s cocktail table script Maximum Fantastic Quatern, which atomic number 2 conceived. Mosley is particularly a fan of FF co-creator Jack up Kirby.

"As an adult I can also see the parallels between some of the superlative painters and Kirby's compositions - from Francisco Goya to the grotesques DaVinci drew, on to some of the most energetic painters of our last 100," Mosley said in the marketing for Maximum Unusual Four. "Jack Kirby's unique sense of composition and narrative couch him in a conference along with these masters."

Walter Mosley's The Matter henchman Tom Reilly has drawn the primary cover to The Thing #1, and there bequeath be variants by Lee Bermejo, Superlog, Todd Nauck, and much. Run down The Thing #1 covers here:

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