In Hellboy: House of the Living Dead, Mike Mignola introduced readers to his take on the classic Frankenstein’s Monster. Next year, Mignola will revisit the creature and put him in his own comic book.
Dark Horse Comics has announced that Mignola will write Frankenstein Unleashed, a new five issue miniseries with artist Ben Stenbeck. Mignola will also provide the covers for Frankenstein Unleashed.
The miniseries will take place within the Hellboy/B.P.R.D. Universe as the Frankenstein’s Monster finds himself “alone, abandoned, and wandering underground, where he discovers both other monsters and the dark secrets to the universe.”
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In a statement, Mignola said “it’s intimidating as hell to take on an icon like the Frankenstein monster. I’m trying to do something that’s true to the origin Mary Shelley created for the creature but also captures a bit of the feel that Boris Karloff brought to the role in the classic Universal films. At the same time I’m throwing the monster into an entirely new environment, so I think the result will be something new. It’s an odd one, but ultimately will add an important new wrinkle to the Hellboy/B.P.R.D. world.”
Dark Horse Comics Editor-in-Chief Scott Allie added that “this version of the Frankenstein monster has the same thirst for knowledge readers will remember from Mary Shelley’s novel. The monster takes the reader through some of the biggest mysteries of the Mignolaverse, shedding new light on important stuff we’ve only touched on before.”
Frankenstein Underground will be released in 2015.
