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Okay, I'm a fairly educated woman and I just don't
get this book. The art is decent, if a little
over shaded. The story starts out interesting,
but I'm just not sure what I'm supposed to be
getting out of this book. What's the point?
What's with the random pictures? Is she having
flashes of these people's lives or something more
sinister? Am I just missing something in
Frankenstein lore that would make this all make
sense? Admittedly, I don't think that I finished
the book in high school because it bored me to
tears.
This woman, The Bride (not to be confused with The
Bride from Kill Bill), is created by a mad
scientist. As she's coming to life, Federal Agents
bust the place and she runs away in fear. She's
sitting against a brick wall. One guy gives her
money and tells her to find someplace safe to stay
for the night. She says nothing but takes the
money and continues to sit there and stare
catatonically. She's then picked up by a man who
promises to take her to a halfway house. In
reality, I guess he's something like a pimp. He
rapes her and sends her out with another guy who
takes her to his flat and rapes her. She says
absolutely nothing during any of this. The second
guy screams at her that he wants her to make some
noise for him. She finally after a while shoves
him out a window, where I assume he falls to his
death. She then runs to a pier and yells "Why?" a
few times and then jumps in the water and drowns
herself. I just don't get it. Maybe I'm not goth
enough.
The art is okay. There needs to be some work done
on how natural shadowing is done, because the
shadows appear kind of haphazardly. Additionally
it's occasionally hard to tell the other bald guys
from the bald bride, and you have to go back and
reread and really look. Overall, I'm not quite
sure what to think of this, but if you'd like to
check it out go to
http://www.studiounderhill.com/ and check it
out for yourself.
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