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Victor LaValle's Destroyer

Author: Victor D LaValle; Dietrich Smith; Joana Lafuente; Jim Campbell, (Letterer); Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Publisher: Los Angeles, CA : BOOM! Studios, 2019. ©2019
Edition/Format:  Print book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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
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Genre/Form: Comic books, strips, etc
Comics (Graphic works)
Graphic novels
Horror comics
Named Person: Frankenstein's Monster, (Fictitious character); Frankenstein's Monster, (Fictitious character)
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Victor D LaValle; Dietrich Smith; Joana Lafuente; Jim Campbell, (Letterer); Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
ISBN: 9781684150557 1684150558
OCLC Number: 1000318430
Notes: "Created by Victor LaValle & Dietrich Smith."
"Originally published in single magazine form as VICTOR LaVALLE'S DESTROYER No. 1-6."--Indicia.
Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Other Titles: Destroyer
Responsibility: written by Victor LaValle ; illustrated by Dietrich Smith ; colored by Joana LaFuente ; lettered by Jim Campbell.

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