Gill Man's my favorite of the Universal Monsters so nice to see he's up next.
Gill Man's my favorite of the Universal Monsters so nice to see he's up next.
Hopefully it's better than the Dracula adaptation, other than the awesome art that book was as dull as dishwater.
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UNIVERSAL MONSTERS: CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON LIVES! #2 (OF 4)
WRITER: Ram V, Dan Watters
ARTIST / COVER A: Matthew Roberts, Dave Stewart
COVER B / COVER D: Francis Manapul
COVER C: Dani
MAY 29 / 32 pages / / -- / $4.99
Kate Marsden has miraculously survived, but just who—or what—is the creature that she saw?
As Doctor Thompson and Kate work to discover the truth, they come face to face with an elusive serial killer…who’s also the man that Kate has dedicated her life to destroying.
First issue was pretty good
Dan Watters and Ram V's take on the Creature of the Black Lagoon succeeds in every way that the earlier Image adaptation of Dracula by James Tynion IV failed: it's fresh and exciting while still feeling recognizable as the original. Now, perhaps I'm being too harsh on Tynion's earlier work, by it's very nature adapting Dracula is going to necessarily harder as it's been made into a film purportedly over 200 times and has nearly as many comic book adaptations which obviously means finding a new angle is going to be tough. On the other hand the Gillman while certainly visually iconic as a Hollywood Monster only had three films originally by Universal, the latter two of which are little known or seen, a cameo in Monstersquad and the recent film The Shape of Water by Guillermo del Toro so as such has much more room for exploration and Watters and Ram V do just that, moving the creature to Peru instead of Brazil and adding in a plot of a reporter who is tracking down a serial killer who drowns their prey who just so happens to encounter the creature. Their's a great feeling of intrigue and true crime that is completely new but the myth of an aquatic off shoot of man remains and his mode of killing being similar to the serial killer brings some interesting comparisons that I'm excited to see developed
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