Frankenstein
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Before there was science fiction, there was Mary Shelley, eighteen years old and writing the nightmare that would define a genre.
Frankenstein is the founding myth of the modern age: the creature born of ambition and abandoned to consequence, the maker undone by what he makes, the question of what it means to be human rendered in flesh and horror.
Nearly two centuries on, the novel reads like prophecy -- urgent in the age of artificial intelligence as in the age of the steam engine. This Qomix Classics edition gives Shelley's monster new form.
The laboratory crackles with electric dread; the Arctic wastes stretch cold and indifferent; the creature's anguish is rendered with psychological precision. Neither camp nor horror, this is a graphic edition that restores the novel's full moral complexity -- a meditation on creation, responsibility, and the cost of playing God.
Mary Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born on August 30, 1797, into a life of personal tragedy. In 1816, she married the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and that summer traveled with him and a host of other Romantic intellectuals to Geneva. Her greatest achievement was piecing together one of the most terrifying and renowned stories of all time: Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. Shelley said she conceived of Frankenstein in “a waking dream.” This vision was simply of a student kneeling before a corpse brought to life. Yet this tale of a mad creator and his abomination has inspired a multitude of storytellers and artists. She died on February 1, 1851.
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