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A review by christinemomo
Victor Lavalle's Destroyer, Volume 1 by Victor LaValle
3.0
Graphic novel with a modern take on Frankenstein.
Wish I liked this more, some of the info in the synopsis wasn’t clear in the book (I was a bit relieved to see that was a repeated refrain on goodreads) and being confused as some events happened really took away from it for me.
Frankenstein has come back from living in the Arctic for reasons after 100+ years and is healthy as ever. He sits on a boat and is radicalized by a YouTube video and kills everyone. He starts traveling the world murdering everyone.
Dr. Baker is a brilliant scientist that was kicked out of her lab for getting pregnant but made her own super lab at home and dedicated herself to perfecting nanotechnology to bring her son back to life, who was tragically shot at age 12 by a police officer.
Some other people from her old lab invade her lab and she shows off her back-from-the-dead cyborg son. Her ex shows up in a big robot suit. Frankenstein shows up. Dr. Baker uses her undead cyborg son as a weapon. lots of people die.
From the synopsis but not actually clear in the story: Frankenstein and Dr. Baker are apparently supposed to team up to destroy the world? I don’t know, they never speak. The people from her old lab are supposed to help or protect Dr. Baker?
The social themes of the dehumanization of Black children, parents’ grief and rage, and the idea that it was the OG Victor Frankenstein’s unresolved grief of his mother’s death that led him on his obsession to overcome death were all great ideas. The execution left a lot to be desired. Things were unclear, and too much time was spent on her old lab and too little on her son or on providing clarity on what Frankenstein’s whole deal was.
“Destroyer” by Victor LaValle, illustrated by Dietrich Smith and Joana LaFuente.
Wish I liked this more, some of the info in the synopsis wasn’t clear in the book (I was a bit relieved to see that was a repeated refrain on goodreads) and being confused as some events happened really took away from it for me.
Frankenstein has come back from living in the Arctic for reasons after 100+ years and is healthy as ever. He sits on a boat and is radicalized by a YouTube video and kills everyone. He starts traveling the world murdering everyone.
Dr. Baker is a brilliant scientist that was kicked out of her lab for getting pregnant but made her own super lab at home and dedicated herself to perfecting nanotechnology to bring her son back to life, who was tragically shot at age 12 by a police officer.
Some other people from her old lab invade her lab and she shows off her back-from-the-dead cyborg son. Her ex shows up in a big robot suit. Frankenstein shows up. Dr. Baker uses her undead cyborg son as a weapon. lots of people die.
From the synopsis but not actually clear in the story: Frankenstein and Dr. Baker are apparently supposed to team up to destroy the world? I don’t know, they never speak. The people from her old lab are supposed to help or protect Dr. Baker?
The social themes of the dehumanization of Black children, parents’ grief and rage, and the idea that it was the OG Victor Frankenstein’s unresolved grief of his mother’s death that led him on his obsession to overcome death were all great ideas. The execution left a lot to be desired. Things were unclear, and too much time was spent on her old lab and too little on her son or on providing clarity on what Frankenstein’s whole deal was.
“Destroyer” by Victor LaValle, illustrated by Dietrich Smith and Joana LaFuente.