Frankenstein’s Womb

[cyberghostface]

Comments

[huntleyhaverstock]

That seems … far less bad than I feared. Actually good, even, maybe? I hope Ellis really is learning and growing from listening to others. It’s possible to do such a thing, however much understandable skepticism that idea and Ellis’s sordid history invites. But it would be nice to enjoy a fairly decent thing like this — great art, too! — without being repulsed by its creator.

[shakalooloo]

Still, would've been a nice touch to put the artist's name on the cover, even if he isn't that big a name. Marek Oleksicki.

[super_fly]

"And for many years hence, those who read your work will argue back and forth about how Frankenstein is the name of my creator, and not my own."

[shakalooloo]

Look, there are two trains of thought, right? The creation is a person, or the creation is not a person. If the creation is a person, then he is the doctor's son, and so his name is Frankenstein until he should choose to renounce it.

If the creation is not a person, then it is still 'a Frankenstein', as a car made by the Ford Motor Company is 'a Ford', or a van Gogh painting is 'a van Gogh'.

Calling him/it Frankenstein is perfectly correct in either way.

The only monster was Victor himself.

[sabertoothlotus]

Also fairly certain Victor named him "Adam" so the whole "I have no name" thing is actually incorrect

[cyberghostface]

Victor didn’t name him Adam. The monster just likens himself to the Biblical Adam a few times.

[lego_joker]

IIRC, Mary Shelley called him 'Adam' in a few private letters.

[lordultimus]

Is this new?

[cyberghostface]

No it’s from 2009.

[huntleyhaverstock]

Welp, so much for me using the quality of this thing as a hoped-for indicator of Ellis's reformation.

[laughing_tree]

I mean, whether he reforms or not, the quality of his writing won't be an indicator of it one way or another. He could be completely reformed and then turn out a complete turd of a story. Conversely, if he's still a remorseless shitheel, writing some Eisner-worthy tour de force won't make him less of a shitheel.