I'll draw up some more coherent thoughts once the mini's finished, but it's seemed to me that each of these issues has been positively dripping with shameful Sheeda-side monster-sex themes.
Very overtly about flesh, from Mahnke's rough, dripping/oozing pencils languishing over every one of Uglyhead's miserably choked facial pores, to Melmoth waving around his big, fertile wand (a pitchfork with testicles, no less) to control his children-slaves and Frank murdering him to take his place.
And the ultimate emasculation of Frank encountering his hyper-sexed and uninterested ex, violence-as-steam-vent for sexual repression, and being almost utterly flaccid in the face of a new world's schemes and monsters.
I suppose, with the constant presence of mother/father/son/daughter/top/bottom examinations in 7S, you could make the argument that all of the series is informed by sexual themes (and certainly they're present in each mini), but I feel it stronger in Frankenstein than in any of them, even Bulleteer. |
