Mignola frankenstein7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() “I had some fun stuff lined up that I was going to do, but if I did it, it was just going to soften the impact, it was just going to ramble more than it needed to ramble. We got where we were going a lot faster,’” says Mignola. ![]() “I was looking at what I had done, and coming off one of the stories I realized, ‘Oh, we’re further along in some way than I thought we were going to be. To commemorate the occasion, Mignola spoke to Vulture about six of his favorite takes on the classic Frankenstein tale - and to share the news that he’d be ending his acclaimed series Hellboy in Hell early next year, with issue No. ![]() In this month’s new graphic novel Frankenstein Underground ( you can read the first chapter here), Mignola, artist Ben Stenbeck, and colorist Dave Stewart spin a Frankenstein tale spun out of a corner of the Hellboy universe, one that takes the iconic monster on a weird, Jules Verne–esque trip toward secrets stranger than himself. You can always tell when a work is set in the Mignola-verse, and part of the fun of following along is seeing Mignola’s unique stylings applied to familiar genres and story archetypes - the latest of which being Frankenstein’s famous monster. In over 25 years of making comics, Hellboy creator Mike Mignola has established himself as a creator with such a distinct aesthetic that not only is it possible to identify his work on sight - macabre yet charming, full of shadows so deep and black they look alive, hiding horrors within - but also the work of those he’s chosen to collaborate with. ![]()
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