Van Helsing vs Frankenstein Paperback – August 29, 2017

Modern day version of a Frankenstein creature. Franklin Shelly (descendant of Mary?) gets killed in action while monster hunting. Liesel Van Helsing is granddaughter of man who hunted Dracula. Franklin's wife pores through old texts (Victor's notebooks perhaps) and uses bodies of ghouls to keep him alive. Liesel realizes this is not good (at all) and tries to capture or kill this new Frankenstein monster. Story moves quickly and art is in the Zenescope style. Very good and nice addition for Frankenstein collection of books.

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Zenescope is famous for taking a famous, well known story and giving it a new twist. In this instance, we take the traditional Frankenstein "Give my creation life!" story and change the concept a bit. You can read this story without knowing a lot about Liesel Van Helsing, but I would recommend reading the two prior books first - Helsing: The Darkness and the Light and Van Helsing vs. Dracula.Liesel is in love with Hades, the God of the Underworld. Because he's immortal and she's not, she comes up with this idea to preserve her essence or soul so they could always be together. She mentions this to her friend, Taylor Shelley, (Yes, the last name is inspired by the famous author of Frankenstein Mary Shelley) and quickly decides it's a horrible idea and too morally unconscionable to try.The next day, Taylor's husband Franklin Shelley is killed by the mothman. Desperate to keep her husband, she tries to keep his mind preserved by placing it inside a body that won't decompose - the pieced together parts of a ghoul. She creates a monster who has her husband's memories, but something isn't right. The memories are fractured and things go terribly wrong.Now, this story is packed with action sequences. But in a lot of ways, that draws these characters to this precipice. Taylor fights the mothman, desperate to save her husband and is forced to watch him die. She can't let him go and realizes that she doesn't have to. Even when she sees how his conscious appears to be there, yet fractured she can't let him go. It's a very bitter-sweet story of the love this woman has for her husband, the love he has for her and Liesel stuck in the middle knowing that something horrible has happened and she has to do what Taylor can't.I loved the monster in this story. Seeing the memory flashes and how it is effecting his conscious and actions was a brilliant choice. I also saw a lot of growth for Liesel. Perhaps, as Mary Shelley concluded in her novel, there are some things that should not be done for fear of the consequences. I enjoyed the original Frankenstein novel and really enjoyed this modern twist. I was very glad it was missing some of those traditional lightning strikes, laboratory images. Instead, this was about the choices of these women. They both wanted the same thing - to be with the ones they loved. The difference was the lengths they were willing to go. It definitely makes you think, which I think the best stories should always do.

I am not sure if it was the issue or the format. I do not usually read comics on my phone so I am not used to it. It does give the advantage of enlarging section,and the panel buy panel option works well, but I think I prefer my comics on paper.After a successful hunt, hit her friends Val Helsing is invited of two of the groups/fanboys pet project. I do like the pun on the names. The art work is good the is a lot of action as well, I am not sure I got the full effect of it in this format. I do really like the character development on Helsing 's life and the played on her inventors curiosity and problem solving skills.