The monster flees into a world he does not understand with no guidance. Grimly’s illustrative rendering of the scene is grotesque, sad, and begs the question, “who is the real monster?” Victor’s abandonment of the monster is a grave mistake. The monster is brought into the world and abandoned by his maker. I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart.” (Grimly 42) Victor immediately flees the creature, his own creation, without even giving the creature a chance to learn humanity. “For this I had deprived myself of rest and health. The glory of his creation turns into fear because the life form has a hideous appearance. Through research and experimentation, Victor succeeds in resurrecting the dead and creating life from a dead body dug out of a graveyard. This transforms from wanting to cure disease to creating life. His entire purpose becomes trying to find the cure for all illness, to prevent man’s demise from disease. He is heart-broken and his grief drives him to the brink of insanity. A key component to understanding Victor is learning that he loses his beloved mother to scarlet fever. He added captivating, weird, and sometimes horrifying (in a good way) graphics that help usher the reader through the dense and detailed story.įrankenstein is the story of Victor Frankenstein’s twisted life. Grimly is a wildly talented illustrator who was inspired by Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein so much so that he re-wrote the story in a way that would be more understandable to a wide audience. The problem with Shelley’s telling of Frankenstein is that the novel is long and difficult for a modern reader to get through. This is the positive side of such advancement but what are the consequences? Mary Shelley was asking these questions before anyone around her could imagine this kind of science. As medical science has evolved, we can now transplant organs from one human being to another to sustain life. However, Shelley’s lessons about the consequences of what we create continue to captivate and even frighten readers today. For many, the disturbing concept of creating life in a laboratory was difficult to understand. Shelley’s original work was very advanced for its era. The original Frankenstein was published in 1818 by Mary Shelley but the core messages of this chilling classic stand the test of time, especially told through Grimly’s words and pictures. Dark moral lessons exist amidst a whimsical tone.” (Grimly 195). Grimly himself writes in his Afterword, “I wanted to set the tale in a world that could only be visited through my imagination. This literary remake of Mary Shelley’s classic work captures attention immediately with on-point illustrations complementing the descriptive narrative, down to the smallest imagined detail. If you love comic strips, graphic novels, or rad video game graphics that tell the story seen in your imagination, then you will find Gris Grimly’s Frankenstein intriguing.
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