Yes, we are falling ever deeper into this rabbit’s hole of quasi-political weirdness. We learn a few things- what those mummy-looking guys are called, sort of where they come from, and kind of what they want. Also, the wealthy and powerful like to eat live baby chicks and puppies. Did you not know that?
All the plutocrats on the page are rough caricatures of real people- in panel 4 we get John McCain, Newt Gingrich, and (a very cartoony) Rick Santorum.
That guy in panel 5 is Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, who famously is suing America because our bailout of his criminally mismanaged financial institution, AIG, was not generous enough by his standards. That’s a bad man.
Panel 6 has Dick Armey, Newt again, and Louis Gohmert. You can click on any of these names for a link to learn more about these jerks, if you are so inclined. Or Google them.
Not Santorum though. Don’t Google him.
In panel 7 we finally get to meet Franky’s creator, Victor Frankenstein. There’s a reason Franky does not talk to or hang out with him. He is mad, bad, and dangerous to know. And not in a fun way.
His plans for Franky will be revealed next time! That, and another monster. A big one.
very exciting. I wondered where this was headed.
nitpicking here but thats a duck not a chicken:D i dont ever recall seeing white peeps
There is in panel four a chick on Rick Santorum’s plate. Gingrich is indeed about to fork a duck.
oh happy day! Franky’s back!
so Bud & Lou are aliens stuck on earth, man has always been stupid enough to put money above everything else, and Newt likes for fork ducks….
Franky sorta shows up but still not a curvy babe in sight…DAMMIT John at least put a sketch page of babes! and NO the chick on Rick’s plate does not count, smartass!
I thought of having curvy FEMALE mummies serving them, but I wanted these guys to be so into consuming and so anti-female that they would not even want mindless female slaves in their inner sanctum.
I have a drawing of a girl that I did for another project. Maybe I’ll upload that tomorrow (getting home late today). But she isn’t quite the Franky type. She’s… interesting, though.
NOOOOOO! Not the wiener dog!
I owned a dachshund for eighteen years, and let me tell you: after you’ve smelled what those foul little beasts make, you wouldn’t even want to consider eating one!
18 years is a good run for a dog. I had a chihuahua growing up- 20 years! I never considered eating him, but I used to put his entire face in my mouth, just because I could. I would wonder what it was like for him. Kind of weird, I would imagine.
“Cartoony Rick Santorum” is a redundancy.
Heh. “No Sharing.”
Also digging the as-yet-unheralded mole man in panel 3.
And finally, at long last Dad! Looks like Franky’s about to wish he’d tossed the guy off a taller windmill.
Thanks for noticing the mole man
Yes, like most Frankenstein adaptations, I will be ignoring the whole chasing-each-other-to-the-frozen-north-where-Frankenstein-dies thing.
Like the Brian Aldiss book and Roger Corman film Frankenstein Unbound, my Doctor and Creature coexisted with Mary Shelley- though she got a lot of their story wrong.
This is good stuff!
I don’t know why they just didn’t name Freedom Works after Dick Armey… his name is an accurate description, after all!
Ooo, someone actually knows who these people are, and why they’re wallowing in filth with monsters! I am not alone!
I hope to be the first to compare Dr.V.F. to the earliest versions of [Simon Stagg], from the DC Comic [Metamorpho]…
…I assume (of course) that this was intentional…?
Holee Crap! I didn’t know who you were talking about, so I googled him. Man, does he look like my Victor! I’d like to say I never saw him before, but I see he was on Justice League (which I love) so I must have.
My main inspiration for my Doctor Frankenstein is Rudolf Klein-Rogge as Rotwang in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis. I gave him the big ears and crazy hair as a tip to the cartoonish villains of Japanese Manga artists like Osamu Tezuka (Astro Boy) and Mitsuteru Yokoyama (Gigantor).
Thank you for bringing him up though- I definitely want to see some of his stories.
he reminds me alot of that butterfly villain from the venture brothers (adult swim on the cartoon network) in his face.. he looks almost exactly like him
Funny, it never occurred to me that he might look like the mighty Monarch! Especially because I’m a huge Venture Brothers fan. He’s supposed to look like a villainous Bud Abbot.