Okay, I just popped into a Barnes and Noble and read some random spiderman comic. All I can say....is that I love
Man-thing. I feel so sorry for him. here, read what is the comic was about. it was sad and I shed a tear...

Fear it self begins with a flash back of Peters early toddler youth, asking his aunt who even back then was an old lady what the word fear means, May then takes her time to explain what fear exactly is and what it does.
A page further we’re back at present date , our friendly neighborhood spider man is up against man-thing, little heads up for people who aren’t familiar with the beastie.
Man-thing , formerly known as Professor Ellis was working on a serum to survive a chemical warfare, the serum worked and nullified every toxic and damaging substance to the body but instead made people into monstrous creatures.
Later Ellis got hired by SHIELD to work on a super soldier serum , Ellis took the base of this previous made serum and used it for the super soldier serum.
But he was set up by his lover and led into an ambush, Ellis escaped and injected the only version of the serum into his own blood , but unfortunately crashed into a swamp with his car a moment later.
The mysterious substances and magic and the serum combines made Ellis what he is today, a giant plant being protecting the swamps and nature, people who are afraid of him will be horribly burnt by his touch.
Spidey is having a hard time fighting against Manny , although he isn’t afraid of the thing thus allowing him to hit Man-Thing , it’s still all thorns and hard wood.
So after some hitting and getting hit , he received a critical hit to the chest.
Some time later while he was walking Aunt may down the street , his spider-sense went off and Peter saw Man-thing standing there in the alley and grabs Peter by the shoulder, but then lets go and walks off again, was it really Man-Thing or was it hallucination?
Once arrived home again he discovers there’s a plant growing out of the gash left by Man-Thing, Peter decides to visit Dr.Connors for some advise and hears some of Man-Thing’s altered DNA fused with Peters and made the plant like DNA to grow within Peter by time, luckily Connors has a antidote but it’s permanently only.
After the visit Peter goes into the swamp again to look for Manny , and find out how to get rid of this thing growing within him , slowly transforming him into a thing like Man-Thing until he walks in to him.
Now both scared of the thing in him and the sudden approach of Man-Thing he injects another antidote and suddenly remembers what Aunt may said to him , Plants don’t feel fear , he has gotten too much plant in him to fear Man-Thing but does fear of becoming like a plant monster.
As he is struggling within the thing within him he gets reminded of what is much worse than that, leaving Aunt May alone and unprotected and recovers just in time , but then Man-Thing grabs him up and heaves him up above it’s head and Peter get’s burned all over his body because of it’s touch, also burning all plant out of him curing him from turning him to a plant like creature.
Peter get’s released by Manny right after and thanks the guy , even though he properly won’t understand a word of it.
Peter then suddenly realizes why Man-thing went looking for him , with the plant growing within Peter he felt another plant creature coming into existence and went looking for it, in hope to get companionship , to not be all alone in the world anymore.
It then turns out that Man-Things only fear and only feeling was , loneliness and because of his ability to burn everything that fears he bursts out in flames because his only dream went gone in front of his eyes and his only fear became reality.