Prometheus Graft Is a Murder Mystery Starring Frankenstein's Monster

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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has inspired all sorts of great comics over the years, and a new Oni Press series might just take its place among them. IGN can exclusively reveal Prometheus Graft: The Slayings at Death's End, a new murder mystery that casts Frankenstein's Monster as an intrepid detective.

Check out the slideshow gallery below for an exclusive first look at Prometheus Graft: The Slayings at Death's End #1:


Prometheus Graft: The Slayings at Death's End is written by George Northy (Yuletide, EC’s Shiver SuspenStories) and illustrated by Caitlin Yarsky (Dead Teenagers, Black Hammer). The first issue features cover art by Yarsky, Eric Powell, Gabriel Rodriguez, and Patricia Martin.

Here's the official summary for the new series:

Decades after his creation, the creature once known as Frankenstein’s Monster has reinvented himself as Europe’s most formidable mind. After years underground, his scars have faded and his genius-level intellect has tamed his hulking nature . . . revealing an extraordinary talent for solving the world’s most inexplicable mysteries. Today, he is Prometheus Graft: gentleman detective, expert investigator . . . and something still not quite entirely human.

Now, on the cusp of a new century set to be ruled by science over superstition, Graft believes he his finally conquered his monstrous past . . . until he is summoned to the remote Romanian castle of Death’s End, where an immortal lord has assembled Europe’s most feared supernatural beings to broker a long-lasting peace. But their fragile treaty will soon be shattered when the corpse of one of the prominent guests is found murdered in the castle’s hedge maze . . . turning witch against werewolf and vampire against ghoul as suspicion and bloodshed spiral.

With only his instincts and a bloodstained trail of clues to guide him, can Prometheus Graft solve the slayings at Death’s End before a new day breaks . . . and all hell follows with it?

"I’ve always adored an Agatha Christie-style whodunnit and wanted to create a classic detective tale with a supernatural twist," said Northy in a statement. "But who to cast as the Hercule Poirot, Sherlock Holmes or Benoit Blanc of this monster mash-up mystery? Then it came to me: The Creature in Mary Shelley’s iconic FRANKENSTEIN was brilliant, tortured and a ‘living puzzle’ himself. What if he set out to try to solve the mystery of what he really is—and who exactly makes up his disparate, grafted-together pieces—and, along the way, discovered a talent for solving all manner of occult mysteries? That became our hero detective, Prometheus Graft. In his debut mystery, Graft is invited to Death’s End Castle to observe a peace treaty renewal between clans of vampyrs, witches and werewolves—but instead must solve a series of brutal slayings to avert all-out paranormal war."


Prometheus Graft: The Slayings at Death's End #1 will be released on December 9. You can preorder a copy at your local comic shop.

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