LEWIS BEALE
DAILY NEWS

You think you’ve got problems? Try being Ben Grimm, aka the Thing. All he wants to do is head out solo to Puerto Rico for a few days to chill in Old San Juan.

While there he intends to enjoy the adulation of the locals, who think his pebbly skin reminds them of the Spanish-era fortress El Morro — which is why they’ve taken to calling him El Morrito.

But no! Grimm's Fantastic Four buds — that’s Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Woman and the Human Torch to the uninitiated — just can’t leave him alone.

So they fly down to La Isla where — Gasp! Pow! Ka-chunga! — they run into a rabid band of chupacabras, those goat-sucking monsters of Boricua legend.

READ MORE: http://www.nydailynews.com/latino/2007/12/26/2007-12-26_chupacabras_marvel_back.html

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