The Living And the Dead

by Todd Livingston, Robert Tinnell, Micah Farritor (Artist)

You are a simple, country doctor in a small village. You have a beautiful wife and a wonderful son - the perfect life. Only they don't know that in your past, you did a very bad thing! People died because of it, and you were forced to flee and live incognito. Now, in an opportunity to redeem yourself, you unwittingly unleash a brutal and perverse murderer, a deviant sociopath hell bent on using innocent people in a Grand Guignol of flesh and blood - a veritable nineteenth-century snuff theater. You alone can end his reign of sick terror - but at the risk of revealing your secret past and losing everything you love. Only you don't know what's worse - what you've created - or what you have to do to stop him!

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Bande Dessinée

126 pages, Paperback

First published November 30, 2005

Reviews

[Michael · Rating 2 out of 5]

A sequel to Frankenstein, but in Hammer tradition it follows Victor rather than his Creature. That's not where my interest lies with the story, but the bigger problem is that it doesn't attempt to explain how Victor escaped his fate at the end of the novel to end up where he is at the beginning of this book.

And the bigger problem than that is that Victor is an entirely different character - contrite and reformed - with no work to show me how he got there either.

It's a decent enough pulpy story, but it shows its roots as a screenplay that's been adapted into a comic. It's a story for people who are only sort of familiar with the pop culture versions of these characters.

[Carl Hamlin · Rating 2 out of 5]

The idea for the story is a good one, but I think the pacing is too quick for the story to develop properly. I also felt like I could predict every revelation before it was given. The art is passable at best.

[Ben · Rating 3 out of 5]

An occasionally gruesome visual addition to the Frankenstein myth with a fairly well-written story. Unfortunately, the stylized art was interesting, but never managed to cross over into the 'excellent' category. 3.5 stars for the story, 3 for the art.

[Allison · Rating 3 out of 5]

The plot was basically a Frankenstein ripoff, but I'm a sucker for interesting art with color and glossy pages. The dialogue was pretty immature ("Boobies!!" ???) but that's usually the case with graphic novels. All in all, it was a fun read. Glad I bought it.

[Melissa Milazzo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting afterword to the Frankenstein tale.

[Sam McCanna · Rating 4 out of 5]

comics,horror

[Twan · Rating 2 out of 5]

I am the resurrection.