Frankenstein Agent of S.H.A.D.E. (Comic Review)

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The distinct shame of Frankenstein Agent of S.H.A.D.E.is you can pinpoint where it failed down to the exact page. Worse still, it’s hardly the creators’ fault and more a continued trend by DC Comics which keeps causing their series to fail. Beyond that exact point it’s a decent comic within reason.

Called away from his vacation back to the Super Human Advanced Defence Executive, undead supersoldier Frankenstein is deployed to deal with an unholy crisis unfolding in a small town of America. Countless monsters are rampaging throughout the streets, murdering everything in sight, and worse still there’s no end to them. Fighting his way through alongside the Creature Commandos, they soon come to understand just how massive a threat S.H.A.D.E. faces…

To make this clear to anyone already wondering: Yes this is DC’s efforts to ape Hellboy. S.H.A.D.E. is effectively the B.P.R.D. with more mad science and less occult, and has a band of undead monsters fighting the things which go bump in the night. What makes it work is that Frankie himself is distinctively different from Hellboy, the sciencey approach to stories and a different take on humour.