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From award-winning novelist Victor LaValle (The Changeling) and illustrator Dietrich Smith (Shaft: Imitation of Life) comes an intense, unflinching story exploring the legacies of love, loss, and vengeance placed firmly in the tense atmosphere and current events of the modern-day United States. When the last descendant of the Frankenstein family loses her only son to a police shooting, she turns to science for her own justice… putting her on a crash course with her family's original monster and his quest to eliminate humanity. Collects the complete limited series.
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- Victor LaValle's Destroyer #1
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When the last descendant of the Frankenstein family loses her only son to a police shooting, she turns to science for her own justice...putting her on a crash course with her family's original monster and his quest to eliminate humanity. An intense, unflinching story exploring the legacies of love, loss, and vengeance placed firmly in the tense atmosphere and current events of the modern-day United States.
- Victor LaValle's Destroyer #4
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Akai and the Monster feud over the fate of the new Dr. Frankenstein, Josephine Baker. But just outside the remote Montana cabin, sinister forces arrive to eradicate any survivors of the battle - ¦
- Victor LaValle's Destroyer #2
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While Dr. Baker is being investigated, the Monster becomes entangled with a conflict at the U.S./Mexico border.
- Victor LaValle's Destroyer #3
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Dr. Baker holds Shelley and Byron in her underground lab as she unveils her rebooted son Akai for the first time.
- Victor LaValle's Destroyer
From award-winning novelist Victor LaValle (The Changeling) and illustrator Dietrich Smith (Shaft: Imitation of Life) comes an intense, unflinching story exploring the legacies of love, loss, and vengeance placed firmly in the tense atmosphere and current events of the modern-day United States. When the last descendant of the Frankenstein family loses her only son to a police shooting, she turns to science for her own justice… putting her on a crash course with her family's original monster and his quest to eliminate humanity. Collects the complete limited series.
- Victor LaValle's Destroyer #6
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Final issue! In the wreckage of the Lab, Frankenstein's Monster faces off against Akai with the fate of the world and the family lineage hanging in the balance.
- Victor LaValle's Destroyer #5
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As government forces close in on Akai, Dr. Baker, and the Monster, the Director unleashes a new player in the race to help capture the Frankenstein family.
Author
Victor LaValle
Victor LaValle is the author of more than ten works of fiction and graphic novels, including the multi-award-winning novel, The Changeling. His books have won the World Fantasy Award, British Fantasy Award, Bram Stoker Award, Dragon Award, and the Shirley Jackson Award, among many others. He has been a finalist for the Hugo and Nebula Awards. He has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Whiting Writers Award, and the Key to Southeast Queens. He teaches writing at Columbia University and lives with his wife and kids in the Bronx.
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