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Good Creatures is an 8 Issue limited series. This package collects all 8 issues of the series. Featuring 214 pages of story, as well as 36 pages of cover art, pin-ups, and additional story. Issue 1 - The Gathering Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, the Mummy, the Werewolf, the Sea Creature, and the Banshee. The Greatest Monsters of the past brought to the future to save mankind from a new race of cannibalistic monsters... What could possibly go wrong? In H.G. Wells’ “The Time Machine” the Time Traveler journeys to the future to discover the human race has evolved into two separate species. One, the Eloi, is peaceful and not too dissimilar in appearance from modern men and women today. The other species are called Morlocks. They are savage in appearance, cannibalistic, and live underground. The Time Traveler falls in love with an Eloi woman named Weena. They are attacked by Morlocks and Weena is taken. The story you are about to read is what happens next. The time traveler, intent on saving the woman he loves, travels back in time and puts together a group of his own monsters to save her and her people. At the end of Mary Shelley’s original novel “Frankenstein” the Creature weeps over the dead body of his creator. Though his creator had just pursued him to the ends of the earth in an attempt to destroy him, he still had compassion and felt sadness in his passing. He tells the only witness to this sad scene that the world no longer needs fear him. He will go north and destroy himself in a funeral pyre. The story ends with him floating away on an iceberg toward the north pole. So this is where Good Creatures begins, by picking up where Mary Shelley left off. The creature has reached his final destination and is carrying the mast of an abandoned ship that is trapped in the icy frozen waters of the arctic north, to add to the fuel of what will be his funeral pyre. This is where the Time Traveler first encounters Frankenstein's monster. The Time Traveler selects the mummy because of his former identity of king Amenemhat III from ancient Egyptian history. He is aware of certain details that historians are not, which will make the Mummy the perfect candidate for his growing group of Good Creatures. The three of them then journey to Transylvania, November 6th, 1893. The day Dracula was killed. At the end of Bram Stokers’ novel “Dracula”, Dracula was being transported by gypsies in a crate, pursued by his enemies. They raced toward Castle Dracula, attempting to reach it before the sunset. His enemies overpowered the gypsies before the sunset, and pried open Dracula’s crate. Jonathan Harker cut off Dracula’s head at the same moment that Quincy Morris stabbed him through the heart. Being over 400 years old, Dracula crumbled to dust, and that was his end. So when the Time Traveler enters the scene, he is faced with the dilemma of how to save Dracula without altering the events recorded at the end of Bram Stokers novel, and causing a time paradox. The time traveler chooses a very particular werewolf for his group, named Joseph Pierce, because he possesses a moral compass and an aptitude for hunting predators. Skills that will prove very useful if he is to save the woman he loves in the future. This story is a sequel of sorts, to three masterpieces from classic literature. It takes the most unlikely anti-heroes and flings them head on into a situation where they must rise above their former circumstances in order to be deemed Good Creatures. Based on the works of H.G. Wells' "The Time Machine", Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", and Bram Stoker's "Dracula". ISSUE 2 Issue 2 - Enter the Morlocks! Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, the Mummy, and the Werewolf. Creatures gathered together from various points in the past and transported through time by a mysterious Time Traveler, on a mission to change the future and save the entire human race. The story begins 800,000 years in the future, where the world is a virtual paradise... by day. Technology has all but vanished. There is no illumination in human settlements and no electrical power grid to supply it. The world, by night, has reverted back into something almost medieval. The Darkness is oppressive and smothering, and what often comes out of the darkness is something far more insidious and inescapable. It is discovered that the descendants of humankind have evolved into two separate species. One, the Eloi, is peaceful and not too dissimilar in appearance from modern men and women today. The other species are called Morlocks. They are savage cannibals that live underground and prey on the Eloi. What happens when Monsters of the past clash with Monsters of the future? Issue 3 - Impact! Witness the startling conclusion to the first battle between the Good Creatures and the Morlocks. Then, settle in for the startling origin of the Morlocks, told by campfire. Secrets are revealed, and the delicate balance between the Eloi and Morlock races are finally explained. How will all of this affect the future of the human race? Issue 4 - Abyss The Time Traveler takes his new companions, Dracula, The Mummy, The Werewolf, and Frankenstein's Creation into the dark chilling underground abode of the Morlocks on a reconnaissance mission. Dracula begins to plan the attack on the Morlock's lair, and the rescue of Weena. The Time Traveler takes The Werewolf and Frankenstein's Creature to the past to search for a Sea Creature, to join them in their war against the Morlocks. Their mission is interrupted by the arrival of The Banshee.
Issue 5 - Pangaea The Banshee guides the Time Traveler, Frankenstein's Creation, and the Werewolf through the volatile prehistoric past in search of the Sea Creature. This one has it all! Time Traveling Monsters battling dinosaurs in the Mesozoic Era and confronting modern day life in New York City. Issue 6 - Progeny The Time Traveler returns to the future with the Werewolf, Frankenstein’s Creation, the Banshee, and the Sea Creature. Dracula begins to reveal his plan to the others, and to instruct his new followers in the art of war. It’s finally revealed how the Time Traveler met and fell in love with Weena, and what befell of her. Issue 7 - The Plan Dracula implements his plan of attack on the underground Morlock stronghold and leads the others in battle. Above ground, Dracula’s new followers defend the Eloi village from the Morlocks, who will stop at nothing in their quest for vengeance. Issue 8 - Battlecry In this final issue in the Good Creatures mini-series Dracula leads the Mummy, Frankenstein’s Creation, the Werewolf, the Banshee, the Sea Creature, and the Time Traveler in a final assault on the underground Morlock domain. What will be the aftermath of the battle, and how will the story end? Find out in this exciting conclusion to the story. |