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Warren Ellis' Frankenstein's Womb
1816 was called "The Year Without A Summer" In the weird darkness of thatJuly&s volcanic winter Mary Wolfestonecraft Godwin began writingFrankenstein on the shore of Lake Geneva in Switzerland But that is not where Frankenstein began It began a few months earlier when en route through Germany to Switzerland Mary her future husband Percy Shelley and her stepsister Clair Clairmont approached a strange castle Castle Frankensteinsome one hundred years earlier had been home to Johann Conrad Dippel whose experiments included the independent invention of nitroglycerin a distillation of the elixir of life — and the transfer of a live soul into an awful accretion of human body parts! Mary never spoke of having entered the realCastle Frankenstein stark on its hilltop south of
Darmstadt But she did And she was never the same again — because something was haunting that towerand Mary met it there Fear death and alchemy — the modern age is created here in lost moments in a ruined castle on a day never recorded Meet the AuthorWarren Ellis is the award-winning British author of comic books novels and television most often recognized for his sociocultural commentary and ground-breaking work in the genre of science fiction His most recognizable works include Transmetropolitan Planetary and The Authority He maintains a consistent online presence which includes the weekly delivery of the FREAKANGELS web comic to millions of fans Ellis has published over 25 different creator-owned projects through Avatar Press (including BLACK SUMMER IGNITION CITY and GRAVEL
the last of which is in development as a film through Legendary Pictures) with many more planned
Darmstadt But she did And she was never the same again — because something was haunting that towerand Mary met it there Fear death and alchemy — the modern age is created here in lost moments in a ruined castle on a day never recorded Meet the AuthorWarren Ellis is the award-winning British author of comic books novels and television most often recognized for his sociocultural commentary and ground-breaking work in the genre of science fiction His most recognizable works include Transmetropolitan Planetary and The Authority He maintains a consistent online presence which includes the weekly delivery of the FREAKANGELS web comic to millions of fans Ellis has published over 25 different creator-owned projects through Avatar Press (including BLACK SUMMER IGNITION CITY and GRAVEL
the last of which is in development as a film through Legendary Pictures) with many more planned
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