I, Frankenstein: Genesis #1 (2024)

2.5

2** art
3 *** no-esta-mal story.

Por si acaso, la portada (que apunta a la pelicula) no tiene nada que ver con los dibujos de este comic.

Precuela en comics de la pelicula I, Frankestein. Contiene 3 arcos, o historias distintas dando contexto a las 2 facciones: demonios encabezados por Naberius su persecución de la inmortalidad para derrotar a las gárgolas; y su obsesión con el secreto de la inmortalidad de Frankestein. Y las gárgolas, en una historia de la reina Leonore, curiosamente narrada por el grupo Crescente, mientras a su vez siguen a la 'Creatura', quien se denomina Adam.

Los demonios se comportan bastante como los de Supernatural, ocupando cuerpos. Las gárgolas no pueden matar humanos. Y Adam quiere que lo dejen en paz, perseguido por demonios y condenado por las gárgolas como una abominación. Triste, en verdad.

Visually it was nice, and the story premise was interesting, but as a whole was very confusing. Sometimes I couldn't literally distinguish gargoyles from demons, villains from heroes, and the most importantly, what was the main point of the whole story? To just introduce us to the whole world setting? Great, I got that, but I wasn't really won over. I am intrigued to see the movie because of that, but the story in the comic book should have been better on its own.

A prequel to the film I, Frankenstein that came out a couple of years ago. I kind of liked that film, I thought there world building and mythology was interesting, but not successfully fleshed out or translated in the film. I completely forgot I had this comic, going through my books on comixology I rediscovered I had this and gave it a go.

This prequel tells the story of a group of people who watch over the demons, gargoyles, Adam (Frankenstein's monster), and man kind. I just finished reading this and I forgot what the group was called, oy. Ever watch the television series Highlander? Well if you did this group equates to the Watchers on that show. Any who, the first back story they share is of big baddie Naberius who was played by Bill Nighy in the film. It's the traditional bad guy who has a vision type of origin story. It's kind of like come to the dark side. I'm sure none of this was hinted at in the film, except Naberius' desire to dissect Adam. Next story up is about the gargoyle queen Leonore played by Miranda Otto in the film. This one was pretty boring, it's a story about her rise in leadership. Again not mentioned in the film and not really needed. You've seen this tale before. None of these back stories are really needed, it's nice to have though, to immerse oneself better into this world that is pretty interesting. Last prequel story is about Adam played by Aaron Eckhart in the film. Now some of this you got to see play out briefly in the film, such as how and why he was created, nodes to the original Frankenstein story. Now I could of sworn, if I"m remembering correctly, that in the film Leonore named him Adam, but in this story he's calling himself that already. I'm not sure and I don't wanna look it up. His prequel tale is very familiar, we've seen it done before, but it's still messed up man. No wonder he's pissed. I mean he's a living man, kind of, sewn up together by well sculptured dead folks, so I get life is tough. The art is good, I like how everyone and everything looked. Not a bad read, doesn't really add much to the film as in new information. It most certainly is an interesting take on the Frankenstein legend, demons, gargoyles, heaven and hell, good and evil, and all that jazz, even if some of it does borrow or remind us of other mythologies we've seen or read before.

Having seen the movie, I was intrigued to see how the comic would portray such a complex plot. I really liked how it was accomplished.

The story was brilliantly detailed, weaving together three historical storylines through a present-day narration storyline, that allowed for mystery as well as explaining the past in a way that was easy to follow. The illustrations were gorgeous! So detailed and realistic - some of them even looked like the actors from the movie. I like that the plot was a little more original than the movie (though it's been a long time since I saw it and I may just be mis-remembering). The only thing that bothered me was that there was no easily discernible way to separate the gargoyles and demons once they were in their true form. They looked almost identical, which made the panels where they fought or faced each other difficult to follow.

Overall, really well done. The film, for me, was okay, but I think I might enjoy the comics more.

Apparently, this is based on a film. I have never seen the film, but got the comic for free, and it seemed like a decent comic to check out around Halloween. This was competently put together, but I didn't particularly care for any of the elements of the plot. I also didn't really understand if gargoyles were human or once human or what. The art was also somewhat confusing at times. Other than a few issues, it was relatively well-written, but I have zero interest in reading or watching any more.