![]() ![]() When the monster recognizes this monstrous ambition in Ingles, he is torn about what to do. The price that must be paid to extend his wife’s life is even more foul than that paid by Dr. Ingles wants to harness the power of life to keep his terminally ill wife from dying. However, eventually we see that Ingles shares with Victor an ambition to be free from the shackles of mortality. Ingles isn’t repulsed by the creature’s existence and has a nurturing manner that wasn’t to be found in Victor. Simon Ingles, seems quite unlike the monster’s creator, Dr. Wandering back to civilization, the monster finds a rare friend among a wealthy doctor, and takes up residence in the doctor’s mansion. The monster must go about the business of living. ![]() It will simply result in a string of rebirths like the one that began his torment. When the monster’s attempt to freeze himself in the ice fails to bring eternal rest, as well as a second attempt of a similar nature, the monster realizes there is no respite to be had in hiding out in suspended animation. The story is about the monster coming to grips with its humanity, its monstrosity, and its immortality. That is, it begins on the Artic ice, with Frankenstein’s monster intent upon finding peace – if not an end - frozen in the glacial mass. ![]() draft sketches.) It not only draws upon the Shelley Frankenstein world it picks up from it as if it were a sequel. This graphic novella collects four issues together with some ancillary matter (e.g. Frankenstein Alive, Alive: The Complete Collection by Steve Niles ![]()
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