Happy Thanksgiving, my Monsters!
I hope you are all in the presence of too much food, and just enough family and friends. I am thankful for the family (and pies!) I am with tonight, and very much miss ones who aren’t here.
I’m also very thankful for all of you who grace my little puppet show with your eyeballs, through feast and (update) famine. I promise to keep trying to make it better.
The card Franky is holding in the last frame of course refers to my pal Bill Walko’s SUPER webcomic The Hero Business. Could Franky’s future foray into the world of fantastic foe-fighting include a cosmic consult, and comic book-like crossover? I sure hope so. We’ve already seen one of Bill’s best characters, Dr. Eli Malefactor, in an early Frankenstein Superstar strip. Elsa did a little intern work for him. I don’t think it’s going to make her any more receptive to the idea of Franky coming home with a hair-brained scheme instead of a job. Come back and find out!
Acme to the rescue!!
Their stuff always works. If you use it correctly.
Another great surprise; glad to see you having fun with that sad sack of bones, Scapula, and it’s an honor for a comic this great to include my idiocy!
Here’s hoping we see an entire team of monster/retro superheroes. Black Lagoonizen definitely makes me want to see more.
…and if you ever get enough webcomic creators together for a “Marvel Secret Wars” kind of collaboration I’d definitely be in (Frankenstein can hold the mountain on his shoulders and Scapula can steal the Beyonder’s power!).
Interchangeable Super Teams and massive crossover events are part of the fun of mainstream comics. I’ve always wanted to be a part of that, so I like playing with that fun feeling. Now we just need a massive Marvel-like webcomics empire, complete with Baxter Building-like headquarters in Manhattan.
Let’s make it happen! ; ) LOVE the strip, especially the “over-used movie words” bit. Thanks for including the Hero Business in your universe!! I hopefully sent some readers your way today.
Well, he DID ask Frank to toss the safe up…
Oh, and is Frank actually from the Bronx or was that just an assumption on the storekeeper’s part?
Franky and Elsa live in Washington Heights, near the Bronx (and the beautiful Cloisters).
The storekeeper was however simply making an assumption and casting aspersions on Da Bronx. As someone who has lived there in the past, I’d say his prejudice is not completely unfounded.
Love the girl’s expression in the third panel. Looks like the kind of thing that could have been seriously labored over, but you nailed it.
hope frank doesn’t need all that blood dripping from his body
and i love all those comic crosovers
Franky’s been through worse, and he always pops back together. Unlike the movie Creatures, mine is an artificial life form, like a homunculus, not a reanimated corpse. That isn’t really blood. It’s something else.
I don’t believe the Creature in the original book was made of corpses. I think he was the product of Alchemy, which Victor Frankenstein studied during medical school, against his professors’ wishes.
The Creature’s origins are debatable. Mary Shelley seemed to leave it intentionally vague, so it can be interpreted in a number of ways.
The first film version of Frankenstein, made by the Edison company, had the doctor grow the monster out of a pile of muck (probably biological components, but who knows) inside of his Easy-Bake Oven.
i like your logic for franky’s creation, and reanimating corpses kind of leaves you with a used brain full of memories annyway, who would want a frank with zombie angst? the whole i am a monster and i know it thing makes him great
That’s a very cynical little pun you’ve made there – but a smart one! Nice last panel!