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Destroyer #1 by Victor LaValle
4.0
dark sad fast-paced

I'm looking forward to reading the rest of this! There's six issues in this series, so I'm going to read one a day, I think, in order to spread out the enjoyment.

This is Frankenstein updated for the modern world, and it follows both the monster - brought back from the Arctic and absolutely murderous - and a scientist who has lost her young son to a police shooting. Clearly, she's trying to bring him back in the same creepy resurrection way as old Victor did, and equally clearly, the paths of scientist and monster are about to cross. (Hopefully in the next issue.) And for all that the story's horrifying, it's mostly just sad, in a horrifying sort of way. I tend to enjoy sad horror; it makes me sympathetic to the protagonists, or at least it generally does. And this is just done so well!