Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has impressed all kinds of nice comics through the years, and a brand new Oni Press sequence would possibly simply take its place amongst them. IGN can solely reveal Prometheus Graft: The Slayings at Demise’s Finish, a brand new homicide thriller that casts Frankenstein’s Monster as an intrepid detective.
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Prometheus Graft: The Slayings at Demise’s Finish is written by George Northy (Yuletide, EC’s Shiver SuspenStories) and illustrated by Caitlin Yarsky (Lifeless Youngsters, Black Hammer). The primary subject options cowl artwork by Yarsky, Eric Powell, Gabriel Rodriguez, and Patricia Martin.
This is the official abstract for the brand new sequence:
Many years after his creation, the creature as soon as generally known as Frankenstein’s Monster has reinvented himself as Europe’s most formidable thoughts. After years underground, his scars have light and his genius-level mind has tamed his hulking nature . . . revealing a rare expertise for fixing the world’s most inexplicable mysteries. Right now, he’s Prometheus Graft: gentleman detective, knowledgeable investigator . . . and one thing nonetheless not fairly completely human.
Now, on the cusp of a brand new century set to be dominated by science over superstition, Graft believes he his lastly conquered his monstrous previous . . . till he’s summoned to the distant Romanian fortress of Demise’s Finish, the place an immortal lord has assembled Europe’s most feared supernatural beings to dealer a long-lasting peace. However their fragile treaty will quickly be shattered when the corpse of one of many outstanding visitors is discovered murdered within the fortress’s hedge maze . . . turning witch in opposition to werewolf and vampire in opposition to ghoul as suspicion and bloodshed spiral.
With solely his instincts and a bloodstained path of clues to information him, can Prometheus Graft remedy the slayings at Demise’s Finish earlier than a brand new day breaks . . . and all hell follows with it?
“I’ve at all times adored an Agatha Christie-style whodunnit and needed to create a basic detective story with a supernatural twist,” stated Northy in a press release. “However who to forged because the Hercule Poirot, Sherlock Holmes or Benoit Blanc of this monster mash-up thriller? Then it got here to me: The Creature in Mary Shelley’s iconic FRANKENSTEIN was sensible, tortured and a ‘residing puzzle’ himself. What if he got down to attempt to remedy the thriller of what he actually is—and who precisely makes up his disparate, grafted-together items—and, alongside the way in which, found a expertise for fixing all method of occult mysteries? That grew to become our hero detective, Prometheus Graft. In his debut thriller, Graft is invited to Demise’s Finish Citadel to look at a peace treaty renewal between clans of vampyrs, witches and werewolves—however as an alternative should remedy a sequence of brutal slayings to avert all-out paranormal warfare.”
Prometheus Graft: The Slayings at Demise’s Finish #1 will likely be launched on December 9. You’ll be able to preorder a duplicate at your local comic shop.
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