When The Scripter Writes A Check The Artist Can't Cover

Who are Thor and his fellow Asgardians fighting this issue?

Wow, this sounds terrifying!

Man oh man, I'm scared already!!

Dude, I am soooooo ready for this!!

I'm sold!!! Bring it on!!

All right, this is going to be so great!! 

Give us the big reveal!!!!

Oh.

A big blancmange with tentacles and an eye.

OK.

Yeah, I guess that's kinda unholy and grotesque and beyond description and....

Nope, sorry. Not really that scary at all.

Gotta call caption fail on this one.

Bonus--the first caption tells us words are now superfluous, and then they proceed to give us...5 more captions. Full of words.

Different definition of superfluous, I suppose.

Len Wein's captions WAAAYYYY over-promise on what John Buscema and Tony DeZuniga could deliver in Thor #257 (1977)