Every now and then he opens his mouth to answer, then stops, reconsiders and starts evaluating another story until-]
Okay, so one time the Thing gets hospitalised. As you can imagine, every hood this side of the equator wants to deep six him while he's vulnerable so there's hundreds of crooks storming this place. All his pals are out there to keep 'em at bay and no one is in there guarding him.
So who is gonna notice sand slipping through the vents in the middle of all that mess, headed right for the stony orangutan with no one in the way?
[He pauses to gauge her reaction as to how this could possibly have a happy ending that wasn't horrible, neglecting to mention that at the time Ben Grimm was his friend.]
I've yet to track down where it was revealed, but apparently it is a thing.
Every now and then he opens his mouth to answer, then stops, reconsiders and starts evaluating another story until-]
Okay, so one time the Thing gets hospitalised. As you can imagine, every hood this side of the equator wants to deep six him while he's vulnerable so there's hundreds of crooks storming this place. All his pals are out there to keep 'em at bay and no one is in there guarding him.
So who is gonna notice sand slipping through the vents in the middle of all that mess, headed right for the stony orangutan with no one in the way?
[He pauses to gauge her reaction as to how this could possibly have a happy ending that wasn't horrible, neglecting to mention that at the time Ben Grimm was his friend.]