I think Tobin and Susini are going for gonzo, but Made Men just comes off sloppy and dumb.

In a funny bit of synchronicity for me, I had just finished Junji Ito's adaptation of Frankenstein the day before, and not having read the back cover of this book, I was unaware that it too was related to Shelley's novel when I snatched it randomly off my shelf of library books. It seems that the protagonist, Jutte (Jootee? Yootah? Not sure how you'd pronounce it.) is a descendant of Victor Frankenstein's smarter and previously unmentioned sister, Cecilia. When she and her team of fellow police officers are ambushed, she uses her family secrets to literally put them back together for revenge. (The subtitle is the best part of the book.)

There's plenty of sex and violence, but little sense and no ending. And since no issue #6 has come out since #5 was published in January of 2018, and the publisher didn't label this a volume 1, I'm not too sure an ending will ever come. Well, no big loss.

You know, I'm generally against all the endless copyright extensions fueled by Disney and other large corporations to protect their intellectual properties, but junk like this could certainly be used as an argument against letting works go into the public domain. Why do creators keep rehashing something Mary Shelley did 200 years ago instead of coming up with something wholly original?

Anyhow, I love Tobin's Bandette series, but this book and The Complete Colder Omnibus make me leery of picking up anything of his that does not include Colleen Coover in the future. ( )