Over the last few years, Skybound Entertainment and Image Comics have been releasing a plethora of thoroughly entertaining – and completely frightening – comic book publications based on the original Universal Monsters catalogue of famously fictionalized characters from the twentieth century.
You know, the classics of horror: Dracula, The Creature From The Black Lagoon, The Mummy, Frankenstein, The Phantom of the Opera along with others!
Those beloved creations have received a new lease on life to the delight of new (and old) audiences. The various offerings have had tales crafted by fan-favourite and critically acclaimed writers and artists, who have all expanded on the creatures well know historic legacies and driven new, tantalizing stakes through readers fast-beating hearts while sending wonderfully cold shivers down their wet spines.
It’s been perfect reading for horror fans whether they be from comic book circle or members of the old-time silver screen guilds!
Of course, since the first release of the numerous publications, Biff Bam Pop! has been all over the cultural zeitgeist with multiple looks at Universal Monsters: Creature From The Black Lagoon Lives!, Universal Monsters: Dracula and even an interview with the amazing artist of Dracula, Martin Simmonds.
We do love our original monsters over in these parts!
Which is why we excitedly need to reveal today’s hotly anticipated next offering in the horror series: Universal Monsters: The Invisible Man #1.
Written by fan-favouite (and no stranger to horror fiction) the award-winning James Tyion IV (The Nice House On The Lake, Something Is Killing The Children, Exquisite Corpses, The Woods, The Department of Truth) and eerily illustrated by DANI (The Low, Low Woods), Universal Monsters: The Invisible Man is a four-part, monthly miniseries that showcases the rise of a horror icon!
Steeped deeply in the noir of early twentieth century England, Jack Griffin is a man nearly invisible to the people around him. But behind his seemingly monochrome, washed-out personality, the scientist harbours a deep, pathological need to showcase his own proclivities and perceived worth – at the expense of both nature and humanity! Tynion’s narration and DANI’s odd-angled panels of wonderfully dark art effectively echo the mysterious attributes of the main character himself. The deft artwork excellently utilizes shadows and partially obscured imagery and, along with the rich and evocative narration, the comic book offering conspires to bring the madness of Griffin to bare. Lost in his own mind and to his own machinations, this psychotic monster is revealed scene-by-breathtaking-scene.
Universal Monsters: The Invisible Man Is not so much the genetic anomalies of the other classic, fictional characters in the series of titles. Instead, it’s a much more real-life example of the monsters that exist in our own society, there on the periphery of our day-to-day interactions with one another.
With that knowledge, the comic book tale makes for a much more harrowing and personal reading experience: tense and thick with frightening and blood-curdling expectation. With the days growing shorter and the light growing dimmer, it’s perfect reading for the upcoming fall season.
Make the run to your local comic book shop today and pick up the latest installment from Skybound Entertainment and Image Comics and their Universal Monsters catalogue with the chilling Universal Monsters: The Invisible Man #1!
Any else out there remember this frightening joy?
