When Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley released her novel “Frankenstein: or The Modern Prometheus” back in the year 1818 I doubt even her fertile imagination could have guessed the journey her creation would take, and over the following two hundred years, it did take some marvelous turns.
Tag: mystery
Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated (2010-2013) – Review
In 2010 Warner Bros Animation teamed up with the Cartoon Network to produce the eleventh, and possibly the best personification of Scooby-Doo and the gang, in a two-season series that basically works as a prequel to the original 1960s Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
Eyes of Laura Mars (1978) – Review
When person embarks on making any kind of murder mystery one must ask such questions as, “What makes my thriller about a crazed killer stand out from others of its kind? Does the movie have a brilliant but eccentric detective? Is the hero/heroine a spunky and resourceful fighter?
Batman: Gotham by Gaslight (2018) – Review
What if Batman was on the trail of Jack the Ripper? This was the idea that writer Brain Augustyn and artist Mike Mignola brought forth back in 1989 in what was to be DC’s first Elseworlds book (stories that take place outside the DC canon) as it placed everyone’s favorite caped crusader in the Victorian…
Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001) – Review
In 1764 France a creature that would be later called “The Beast of Gévaudan” terrorized the populace for several years, racking up over a hundred kills and even more injuries, until King Louis XV sent two professional wolf-hunters to take care of the problem.