Demon Knights #20

The Demon Knights have saved Themyscira by killing all the vampires. Although Cain escaped so he’s sure to go make more vampires before The Demon Knights can lock him up inside of Andrew Bennett. And The Shining Knight has gone all Bladey and become a half-vampire or something. I think The Shining Knight’s goal is to eventually be able to check every single box in the race category on the census form.

As thanks for saving Paradise, Hippolyta has some information for the Demon Knights concerning their quest.

Hippolyta directs the Demon Knights to the Amazonian Library of Congress to learn about The Holy Grail.

Exoristos almost goes into the story told in Wonder Woman about how the Amazons mate. My only question is if they only get reading material from sailors, shouldn’t it all be porn and Stephen King novels?

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Worlds’ Finest #12

Desaad decided to show up at the end of Issue #11. I don’t believe I’ve ever read anything with Desaad in it. Yes, I’ve never read any of Jack Kirby’s Fourth World stuff. And perhaps I have read something somewhere with Desaad in it. But he main reason I know of Desaad is because I have his stupid action figure from the 80s Super Powers collection. I suppose he’s meant to be some dastardly, conniving, evil high-powered henchman of Darkseid but I always imagined him as a toady little scrub whose main purpose was to shine Darkseid’s boots and babysit Kalibak.

Everybody flees from the scary monster man except for Karen, Helena, and one lone security guard with a serious case of one of DC’s worst mental illnesses, Attacking The Wrong Mother Fucker Mania.

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Red Hood and the Outlaws #17

I wonder who at DC, besides Grant Morrison and Chris Burnham and their editors, knew that Damian Wayne was going to be killed in Batman Incorporated? I imagine a lot of people knew which is why I find it incredible that it took even the local comic book shops by surprise. Were the other writers of the Batfamily Books let in on the secret? Or does Grant Morrison not care what killing Damian is going to do to Peter J. Tomasi’s job over on Batman and Robin? Will that comic now become Batman and Alfred? Or Batman and Titus and Alfred and Batcow and Alfred? I have to wonder if Scott Lobdell were told after reading the first scene in Red Hood and the Outlaws with Jason Todd and Damian Wayne.

Even though this scene exemplifies all of the things Lobdell usually does to try to ruin his stories (heavy use of Narration Boxes, constant snarky attitudes), it works here because it’s character driven. The Narration Boxes actually help move the scene forward in the way Thought Bubbles would have in the past. And Damian is a little prick who can’t stand Jason Todd. Jason Todd’s teasing here is more reminiscent of Nightwing, but that’s a good thing. After what they just went through in Death of the Family, Jason Todd can view Damian Wayne as a younger sibling whom he cares for. The psychopath line comes out as a sweet bit of sibling teasing although Damian most likely doesn’t feel that way. And knowing that what happened to Jason a few decades ago (in real time!) is about to happen to Damian makes this scene bittersweet. The only real problem with this scene is that I’m about to turn the page and no way Lobdell can keep from fucking it up!

Starfire and Speedy show up in the car Red Hood sent for them while Red Hood finishes saying goodbye to Damian. Speedy mouths off to Damian as he arrives, so you know that’s going to end up in an ass kicking. And then Jason heads in to say goodbye to Nightwing and Kori says she’d rather wait outside. So close to seeing Kori and Dick together! I wonder if some other writer already has dibs on their first New 52 encounter. Since there was no previous version of Teen Titans, how did Dick and Kori first meet? How did they get involved? Why did they break-up? Why is Starfire now avoiding Dick (well, avoiding this particular dick, at least)? Why doesn’t Dick come out and say something instead of just peeking at her through the window? I’m actually kind of glad none of those questions were answered here in this comic book. You know. For reasons.

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Frankenstein Agent of SHADE #16

Shit happens and destroys everything.

Simply hating (and despising, etc.) Savage Hawkman alone didn’t end Savage Hawkman’s agonizingly depressing existence. Seems historically, asinine DC executed some half-assed decisions. Ending S.H.A.D.E. shows how, again, DC expresses sheer hatred against dedicated enthusiasts.

Yeah, I’m going to stop with that because I’m just going to sound more and more illiterate as I try to force myself to stick with that pattern. I just couldn’t resist since Savage Hawkman sets up that mini-SHADE-rant so nicely! But that last sentence? Ugh. Forgive me!

The final issue of Frankenstein begins in a Central City not currently full of monkeys. Maybe Keystone City was full of monkeys. Maybe both cities were full of monkeys. Why did DC even bother to keep both cities? They were basically the same city but on two different Earths. Were they that important that they couldn’t be merged? You know what? Let’s fuck Silver Scarab and Power Girl and Jade and Obsidian and all of the other Infinity, Inc kids in the ass but we can’t lose Central City! (Some of you less sensitive people might be thinking, “Hey! I bet Obsidian loved being fucked in the ass!” Shame on you! DC does not fuck people in the ass gently or with consent!) Perhaps there are some stories I don’t know about that were essential to keeping these two cities on one Earth but I doubt it since if I don’t know about it, who fucking cares? Amirite?! This is where we high five and then look awkward and embarrassed that we partook of that form of social bonding until we both decide we did it ironically and thus can live with ourselves once again.

A bunch of freaky-deaky weirdos (no offense to freaky-deaky weirdos) have gathered to be weird and freaky underneath the Devil’s Watertower.

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Red Hood and the Outlaws #15

So far in The Death of the Family, The Joker has gotten Robin, Batgirl, Harley Quinn, and Red Hood to say that they’re going to kill him. I don’t think Nightwing said it but that’s because he’s really matured over the years and he’s even been in Batman’s underwear for awhile. So he knows better. But with all of the characters yelling “I’ll kill you!” at The Joker, I’m starting to believe that was basically The Joker’s plan. Make every member of the Bat Family think that The Joker knows who they are. Fuck with their lives so much that they want to kill him. Then gather them all together at a party in Arkham and watch how pissed off and hurt they get when The Batman takes The Joker’s side and keeps them from killing him. Although I think it’ll be okay if Alfred kills him.

At the end of last issue, Isabel was dying from a drug overdose which was probably The Joker’s fault but I don’t know her that well. She might be a big time drug user and it’s just a coincidence that she’s dying on the floor while The Joker taunts Jason Todd from the television and a bunch Gotham Police break into the apartment to arrest Jason Todd.

Jason Todd beats them all up.

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Frankenstein Agent of SHADE #15

This penultimate issue is “Last Stand Against the Rot.” My guess is the ultimate issue will be “Last Stand Against A Giant Creature With No Eyes and A Steel Reinforced Belly.”

Last issue ended with the death of Velcoro (or at least the bisection of him. He is a vampire, after all. Don’t they need to have their heads doused in sunlight and steaks served with a whisky mushroom sauce?), the appearance of a tribe of Golden Robot Women, and Frankenstein fighting to the death on an island against said island. That’s a lot of stuff happening!

Does the plan begin by entering its mouth?!

The Golden Robot Women transform into a Flaming Golden Sword which Frankenstein uses to hack the island to pieces and remove the last piece of the Soulgrinder from its stomach. Now that he has all of the pieces, he just needs to return to Nina and the last of the S.H.A.D.E. scientists that somehow survived the Rot. Maybe the rendezvous point is Galapagos.

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The Savage Hawkman #14

Green Arrow’s back?

Last issue, I couldn’t tell how last issue ended. Hawkman stated the plan he had for Pike and the Thanagarians was one that they wouldn’t like. But since the next time Hawkman appears, he’s in Seattle in Green Arrow’s comic being hounded by Thanagarian Warhawks, I think my assumption that he shot everyone into space was absolutely wrong. What I believe he did was tell them to give him a 100 count head start and then he fled to Seattle. The reason they wouldn’t like it is because Seattle is wet and gray. Also, they would have to make an appearance in Green Arrow and be written by Ann Nocenti. I wouldn’t care much for that plan either.

So Hawkman and Green Arrow fight a bunch of Warhawks while in Seattle. At the end of the comic, it seems like they’re going to work together to find Hawkgirl and clear Hawkman’s name. But then the “Hawkman:Wanted” crossover heads back to New York where Hawkman has a run in with Deathstroke. That issue ends with Pike confronting Deathstroke and Hawkman because apparently at the end of Hawkman #13 when Hawkman had a plan to deal with Pike and the Thanagarians, he actually didn’t do shit to them. So the big cliffhanger in the “Hawkman:Wanted” story happens!

Hawkman #14 begins back in Seattle with Hawkman hanging out, once again, with Green Arrow.

Hey DC Comics? I’m glad you had a plan when Rob Liefeld dropped his titles because he couldn’t stand editorial planning his titles for him. Wait. That doesn’t make sense. If Liefeld left because editorial kept telling him what direction his comic books needed to take, then the comic books should have some direction now that he’s gone. But instead, his comic books are a complete mess, they’re going nowhere, they have no shared chronology in their own fucking crossover, and yet they still have Rob Liefeld’s name slapped all over them. Maybe when the “Hawkman:Wanted” trade paperback comes out, DC can put the story in the right order. If there’s any order to be had. I’m pretty sure that the plot of Deathstroke and the plot of Savage Hawkman aren’t going to intertwine at all. I think that means calling this a “crossover” is a big lie. So maybe these are just a few random comic books in which Hawkman is being hassled by The Man and shoved under the umbrella title of “Hawkman:Wanted”.

Except that last sentence I typed was completely wrong because this issue is called “PART FOUR: birds of a feather” (the capitalization and lack thereof has been accurately portrayed).

Since Part Three ended with Deathstroke and Hawkman in a standoff against Pike in New York, Part Four begins with Hawkman hanging out with Green Arrow on a roof in Seattle. So good!

Why didn’t you get her to answer your questions when you had her captured at the end of Hawkman #13? Does nobody remember he had Shayera and all of her guards and Pike and Xerxes as well captured? DOES NOBODY REMEMBER?! Was his plan at the end of issue #13 to set them all free? WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON?!

Just so that everyone is clear that I’m not completely insane and losing my mind, here’s how Issue #13 ended:

See? Pike, Xerxes, and Shayera all trussed up and ready to be questioned. Instead, Hawkman lets them go. And now in Issue #14, what does he need to do?

Maybe the thrill of the chase is the only thing that can satisfy Hawkman’s savage needs.

Perhaps you should have thought of that before letting her go last issue! How does DC believe they can maintain any kind of universal continuity when they can’t even maintain continuity between sequential issues of a single comic book?

After Hawkman and Green Arrow beat up another bunch of Thanagarian Warhawks, they discover a portal to Thanagar. Too bad they broke it’s power source first. The other thing they discover is a stockpile of Thanagarian weapons. Looks like someone is thinking about invading Earth!

Apparently Hawkman and Green Arrow killed all but one of the Warhawks since they only wind up torturing and questioning the one guy. I think that’s okay though. Heroes are allowed to kill alien creatures if they come to Earth without an invite, no matter how civilized those aliens are. The Warhawk refuses to answer any questions except that he reveals all of the Thanagarian’s plans while refusing to answer any questions. Basically, this is how the conversation goes:

Hawkman: “Tell us what you know!”
Warhawk: “Your mother fucked Lobo’s dog!”
Hawkman: “Ooooh! My mother is dead!”
Green Arrow: “I love my mother!”
Warhawk: “If you love your mother, why are you hanging out with Hawkman? He makes mother’s cry! His name means “bloody rim jobs” in Thanagarian!”
Green Arrow: “Yeah, who cares? I want to know why you’re invading Earth?”
Warhawk: “Oh that? What’s to know? Earth is neutral ground in the Thanagarian war against the Daemonites and the Czarnians, so we intend to make this an outpost in that war. No big deal.”
Hawkman: “Wait. I just spent an evening with Deathstroke a few hours ago and he said he killed the last Czarnian. But you’re at war with them?”
Warhawk: “Umm. Uh. Hmm. Uh. Editors? Little help on this one!?”

So the Thanagarians are still at war with the Daemonites (most of whom Helspont has killed) and the Czarnians (all of whom Lobo has killed). Not much of a fraggin’ war, is it? And just to make sure I wasn’t letting my Preboot knowledge of Lobo interfere with the Reboot facts, I dug around issue #9 of Deathstroke for this little gem that fucks up this Warhawk’s little story:

Ooops!

Who’s lying? Lobo? The Warhawk? DC’s editors when they say they’ve got everything under control?

The Warhawk accidentally spills his guts to Green Arrow and then he literally spills his guts to Hawkman. Ha ha, no. That was a joke. He’s actually too cowardly to keep up his “I’ll tell you nothing!” act when the gut spilling threat does become literal. He blabs everything to save his miserable life immediately after saying, “Do as you will, mud-lovers. I will NOT betray my queen or my people.”

Later that evening, Emma and Carter have a drink with Oliver Queen. Ollie is pretending to be a close friend and associate of Green Arrow so as not to give away his secret identity. But I think he wants them to know since he wears a green sweater to the meeting. He helps Hawkman use one of the Warhawk’s gadgets to trace its signal back to New York. I guess now Hawkman will head over to Deathstroke #14 for a brief near-death interlude.

Meanwhile on Aerie, the invisible floating royal mobile castle city of Thanagar currently transported to Earth’s upper stratosphere, some guy in profile sits in a life-support golden throne while talking to his aid, a woman named Oracle. Okay, that’s not going to be too confusing at all, what with it being Barbara Gordon’s old name from the old universe and it being the name of a current omniscient all-powerful being created by Scott Lobdell in Superman #0. Anybody want to place bets that the guy in the throne is Corsar? Evidence of his still being alive will let Hawkman off the hook and “Hawkman:Wanted” can end with Shayera and Katar Hol becoming the best of friends once more!

Since the Warhawks sucked at stopping Hawkman, the mystery man in the throne issues another edict!

Okay. That explains Deathstroke #14 and some of the problems I had with it. But watch for this Chapter to be labeled “Part Four” and Deathstroke #14’s story to be “Part Three” when “Hawkman:Wanted” ends up as a shitty trade paperback that nobody should bother buying.

Oh no. Forget everything I just said in that caption. Carter and Emma fly back to New York and they’re on the plane discussing the news that Oliver Queen just gave them: a hit on Hawkman has been issued to Earth’s mercs. So Emma says:

Goddammit! The entirety of Deathstroke #14 retold in three pages! The fucking time I could have saved!

So at least this comic ends in exactly the same place with the exact same words as Deathstroke #14 ends. Only the art is different. Oh, and I also noticed that Xerxes was ambushing them along with Pike in this issue. So maybe the art was better here in that I could differentiate Xerxes from the Warhawks and Xerxes’ other weird soldiers.

The Savage Hawkman #14 Rating: -1 Ranking. At least reading the way this crossover is told, I’m convinced DC isn’t writing their comics with the trade paperbacks as their bottom line. This thing is going to need a lot of work to be readable in one continuous sitting.

As an added bonus, here’s a picture of Deathstroke’s sword!

In the immortal words of George Takei, “OH MY!”

Frankenstein Agent of Shade #14

They fight yet another giant beast. Place bets now! Will they kill it by stabbing it in the eye or exploding out of its stomach?

I gave the last issue of Frankenstein a +1 rating but I couldn’t even remember what was happening in this comic. Even after reading the commentary, I just had a vague, nagging memory about Dr. Victor Frankenstein’s Soulgrinder being the weapon The Red and The Green need to fight The Rot. But the parts are supposedly scattered all over the world. I don’t see how Frankenstein is going to have time to find all of these parts before this Rotworld crossover is over. Maybe it’s composed of only two pieces.

Turns out it’s three pieces. And Velcoro and Frank find one in the first few pages after eviscerating a gigantic bull and pulling the pieces from its stomach. I have the feeling Matt Kindt got roped into this Rotworld crossover and was told specifically what he needed to make Frankenstein do. They probably said to have Frank get the Soulgrinder to Alec and Buddy by the end of Frank’s issues. However he did that was probably up to Matt. And since he wasn’t planning on writing this story anyway, he decided to make Frank go on a quest. A really boring quest. Super boring.

SO BORING.

Underneath the Golden Gate Bridge, they encounter the giant Rat King Thing from the cover. This may be the most realistic part of this comic book yet. Frankenstein distracts it while Velcoro gets the kill.

And who took “exploding out of its stomach”? Collect your winnings!

Come on, comic book writers! Whenever a giant creature is being battled, it seems you have all decided there are only two ways to kill it. I’m still waiting for a surprise battle against a giant monster! Frank and Velcoro have one more gigantic beast to kill. Perhaps Kindt will think up something cool and unusual for the last battle.

Velcoro and Frank need to fly a small plane to their next stop because the last creature is on Easter Island.

Correction: the last creature IS Easter Island. And Velcoro is a Jaws fan.

Velcoro gets bitten in half by this creature while Frank lies in a hole in the ground because he refuses to wear a parachute when he jumps out of a plane. When he climbs to the top of it, he discovers he and Monster Island aren’t alone.

What is this? Robot Amazon Easter Monster Island?

Frankenstein Agent of Shade #14 Ranking: No change. Overall, this issue was just a disappointing addition to the Rotworld storyline. A mundane quest to battle boss creatures. At least one of the giant creatures being killed in a cliche way. Golden robot women. No, wait. That last one was one of the highlights! But they only appeared at the end of the comic, so there wasn’t enough of them. Velcoro getting bitten in half was nice and since he’s a vampire, he’s probably lying in the creatures digestive juices cursing his ass off. Or back on. A mediocre filler issue that I’ll probably forget about by Issue #15.

Frankenstein Agent of Shade #13

Why is the Doctor so interested in Frank’s crotch?

Frankenstein is a big dead corpse thing and yet The Rot has no power over him. That means the best way to defeat The Rot is to reanimate it and make it undead with its own consciousness so that it begins to love romantic poetry and hate mean things. I think the next best way to defeat The Rot is to simply eat it or feed it to worms and then put The Rot worm poo in your garden. Which, technically, is still sort of eating it.

Frankenstein is still in the Leviathan’s Graveyard deep beneath the sea when Father Time begins pleading with him for help. SHADE Headquarters is falling apart around Father Time for some reason. Maybe it flew into the blades of a fan. Frankenstein doesn’t seem too terribly interested in helping Father Time at the moment. How many times does Frankenstein have to realize he’s been manipulated, abused, or betrayed by SHADE before he just fucking walks away like his wife did? Sadist’s Hegemony Affects Dead Egos.

Father Time’s communication is suddenly cut off and the army of ex-SHADE employees gathered around Frankenstein begin morphing into Rotlings. And then Frankenstein’s father returns.

I guess Frank didn’t know his own strength. He did kill Victor back in the Amazon.

Victor tells his story of being a corpse on the banks of the Amazon. He became food for both plants and animals. To his dead mind, this became a struggle between The Red and The Green fighting for his allegiance. Instead of being a good decaying morsel, he rebelled against providing sustenance to these two weak kingdoms. Instead he aligned with The Rot because he’s just one of those guys who wants to see the world burp. Err. Something like that.

Why keep the Soulgrinder? Because it is a weapon that can be used against The Rot like I surmised?

Victor ends his talk with Frank with this: “I could tear the world down around you! And leave you alone on this Earth!” See?! Just like I said with that burp thing! This also means Frank must be wandering around Rotworld like Mad Max except with no children’s tribe to find or man in a plane or gas hoarding jerk-faces or private dancer Thunderdome owners. Just himself and a bunch of disfigured, recently dead super heroes.

Frankenstein and Khalis and Nina from the Black Lagoon and the last surviving SHADE ex-employees escape the Graveyard via the newly resurrected Leviathan (thanks to Khalis!). After escaping, Frankenstein is carried away by a flock of condors singing something about their mother being proud of them. Seems the condors are agents of The Red and they need a new hero since Animal Man has just disappeared. They figure why not go with the guy who is somehow immune to The Rot! They drop him in Metropolis to fight The Rot infection going on there.

In Metropolis, Frank fights The Rot for a few pages before running into Velcoro, the Vampire Kid.

Ignoring all of the times I guess at plot points and am wrong, I’m 100% at guessing plot points!

Velcoro’s final news for Frankenstein before the issue ends is that Victor destroyed The Ant Farm and everybody within it. This comic kind of throws a wrench in the Buddy and Alec’s Rotworld is some kind of simulation. Except Frank must now somehow be involved in that simulation or else the rest of the New 52’s comics would all revolve around dead superheroes for the next few months instead of having big crisis crossovers of their own against The Joker and The Borg Lanterns and Bizarro. Or whoever the shirtless guy with the scarification Superman symbol on his chest is over in the pages of the Super-Family. I guess if I would read the fucking solicits like that Anonymous guy criticized me for not doing, I’d know! Fuck, why am I even reading the comics? I should just read the solicits! It’d be a lot cheaper and I’d know what’s happening before all of those stupid jerks that merely read the comics each month to enjoy the story and be entertained and surprised!

Frankenstein Agent of S.H.A.D.E. #13 Rating: +1 Ranking. This issue fits seamlessly into Frank’s current story. He’s a natural to be part of this Rotworld thing. So far, two out of the four big crossover events are good: Rotworld and Death of the Family. The Third Army is just barely getting started even though it’s had tons of build up. Unlike Death of the Family which came out of the gate at a fucking sprint. And I haven’t read any of the Superman crossover event yet, so I can’t judge that one accurately. Except two of the three writers on the crossover have yet to impress me, so I don’t have high hopes for it.

Frankenstein Agent of Shade #0

Doesn’t everyone already know Frankenstein’s monster’s origin? A crazy doctor sends his disfigured assistant to get body parts. The doctor sews them together while a bunch of zany things happen. Then he puts the body on ice for awhile while he tends to his second job as a candy maker. Then he returns to zap the body with lightning and his creation comes to life. Then his creation meets these two buffoons and more wacky hijinks ensue. There might also be something about Niagara Falls and some poorly named baseball players at this point in the story. Then the monster kills a little girl out of kindness and he’s chased by a mob into the arms of Elvira. And right around there he’s approached by some three month old named Father Time that recruits him into S.H.A.D.E. which stands for Some Hackneyed Acronym, Disappointing Everyone.

Frank is partially made from Bunny Rabbits just like Resurrection Man. Is this a trend in comics today?

Frankenstein’s monster was brought to life by something called the Soulgrinder. Dr. Frankenstein kidnapped inmates from an asylum and threw them in the Soulgrinder which powered the machine that would bring his monster to life by consuming their very souls!

*CRACK OF LIGHTNING! MANIACAL LAUGHTER!*

It took fifty inmates to bring Frankenstein’s monster to life which means Frankenstein’s monster has the crazy memories of fifty asylum inmates rattling around in his corpse brain. I think the rest of Frankenstein’s monster was created in the old fashioned way with Igor digging up corpses and sewing them together into a big, green monster that retained only a nagging sense of its own humanity. And maybe the monster retains the memory of the corpses he’s made out of instead of the inmates but I doubt that after seeing the crazy memories that have been plaguing him lately.

SHADE had been monitoring Dr. Frankenstein for potential recruitment into SHADE. But they noticed that anybody willing to throw living people into a fiery pit to use their souls as fuel to bring a corpse back to life was probably a little bit too insane even for their Machiavellian machinations. But they did see potential in the reanimated corpse!

If that top panel were narrower, I’d turn it into the new banner for EEE! Tess Ate Chai Tea!

Frankenstein’s monster had escaped into the world. Where he went and what he did next remain a mystery. Well, they’re a mystery to me since the comic book doesn’t depict any of it. But it does show what Dr. Victor Frankenstein did next! He became a Pirate Bounty Hunter and Leader of an Army of Corpses!

Why can’t the Doctor be happy with these monstrosities? Have they only been fueled by one or two souls each and rendered permanently mentally handicapped?

Since leaving his home, Frankenstein’s monster had walked across the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean and arrived in the Amazon rainforest where he met a group of natives living in the vicinity of a baby-stealing Great Old One. The natives appealed to Frankenstein’s monster for help and he granted it, proving to SHADE that Frankenstein’s monster was not a monster at all. He was simply Frankenstein and he had indeed retained his humanity.

Frank learns a valuable lesson in self-sacrifice and helping others. This message brought to you by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

Soon after Frankenstein’s celebration with the natives, Dr. Frankenstein catches up with him. His steampunk corpse pirates destroy the village and kill everyone within it. Except Frankenstein. Frankenstein they have a little bit of trouble with. Both physically and philosophically.

Just another guy with severe daddy issues trying to prove himself to the world. Could you be more cliche, Frank? If you’d been female, you’d have been a stripper.

Frank and the Doctor have a good old fashioned knock down drag out fight over a cliff and down a raging river and over a waterfall before they have their final confrontation. I think it’s probably done perfectly but I might be biased since I just called out the whole daddy issue thing.

I like how the confrontation is built up by Victor as this grand God versus creation thing when it’s really just father versus son. And Frank brings it right back down to that level with the simplicity of striking out and a tantrum-like “Shut up.” This is how anti-climactic can be done excellently.

After this fight, the final scene that I’m going to scan plays out. After that scene are a couple of pages of Frank fighting enemies across the years and those pages are pretty great. Seriously, this comic book has style. And if this is the kind of story that Matt Kindt can write, I’m all aboard for his future stories of Frankenstein. And I hope Alberto Ponticelli continues to do art for it. His style matches perfectly with the feel of this book. So, finally, here’s that last scene.

When is Father Time going to be a kitten?

Frankenstein Agent of SHADE #0 Rating: Literally epic.