Always preferred the comic book depiction of the creature (and the ramped up graphic violence that surrounds it) as opposed to it's cinematic counterpart. Bigger, meaner and more terrifying.
I like the increase in size - the way it looms over Brett and later Dallas - or how one huge hand (instead of two) wraps around Parker's head before delivering the blow that blasts half his head away (shotgun-style) rather than just punching a hole in his skull. My favourite comic book of all time!