THE SUPERNATURALS was a 4-issue Marvel series drawn by Ivan Reis and written by Brian Pulido and Marc Andreyko. This team was a hodgepodge of two characters who could be credibly considered monsters (the Ghost Rider and the Werewolf By Night) and three who are more like heroes with supernatural powers (Brother Voodoo, the Black Cat and the Gargoyle). These characters-- whose adventures take place on some alternate Marvel-Earth-- contend with an evil mastermind named Jack O'Lantern, who has some vague plan to conquer the world. He uses as temporary lackeys a number of other Marvel monster-mainstays: the Living Mummy, Dracula, the Frankenstein Monster, the Zombie, and the Scarecrow (though the latter isn't given this name or his alternate cognomen, "Straw Man.")
The most interesting part of this helter-skelter tale is a segment in which Jack O'Lantern resuscitates about a dozen of Marvel's Godzilla-style gargantuas, though they don't get more than a few pages of exposure. In my review of the 2005 MONSTERS ON THE PROWL, I said:
Other named monsters include Tragg, Taboo, Droom, Fin Fang Foom, Vandoom, Rommbu, Groot, and Grottu-- but not, in an unforgivable omisison, "Gruto." Dang, I could have really got behind a teaming of "Groot, Grottu and Gruto."
Though I first read THE SUPERNATURALS years ago, I failed to note that Pulido and Andreyko do use all three of these similarly named beasties, though they never cross paths. I'm still waiting for a scene in which Groot, Gruto and Grottu get into a big fight about who gets to keep his name.
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