Publisher: Dynamite Comics
Writer: Rik Hoskin
Artist: Andres Ponce
Editor: Rich Young
Release Date: 24 February 2016
Price: $3.99

Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein: Storm Surge #5 is another high-octane, highly recommended instalment of the revamped Frankenstein legend as Mary Shelley’s immortal creature continues to dominate the monster scene courtesy of Rik Hoskin by way of a series of novels by Dean Koontz. Not that Ms. Shelley would recognise her patchwork creation these days.

Hollywood took away the fabricated fiend’s erudition in favour of Karloff’s superlative emoting via a series of grunts and neck bolt accessories that not even the spectre of Herman Munster can eclipse. But Dean Koontz went one stage further in Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein: Storm Surge #5.

Now calling himself Victor Helios, the archetypal mad scientist is now most definitely a twenty-first-century geek whose resurrection engine has called up a whole army of zombies that he hoped would be a New Race destined to lead mankind into the future not eat it for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

But in Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein: Storm Surge #5, if Victor’s latest scientific snafu isn’t bad enough, he still has to deal with his first and greatest creation, now also going under another name, that of Deucalion, and showing a fancy array of new powers to boot.

Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein: Storm Surge #5 brings about the enduring fascination of man and monster and how do we tell which is which permeates this tale of vengeance and madness as the plot escalates towards this saga’s concluding instalment.  Victor Helios nee Frankenstein is a man who seems to have conquered death.

Let the madness in Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein: Storm Surge #5 reign.

 

Reviewer: Gary Orchard
Reviews Editor: Steve Hooker