Prometheite

by Ari Mulch

Overview

Prometheite reimagines Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein as a lesbian romantic tragedy. Two young women, Aveline and Violet, meet at the Universityof Ingolstadt and quickly bond over their interest in anatomy, the occult, and one another. But, before their love can fully bloom, Aveline dies. Violet resorts to dark sciences to keep the forbidden romance alive and resurrects Aveline. But all is not well. Aveline suspects something unnatural about her life as Violet struggles to keep the resurrection a secret. Will toying with the forces of nature doom their forbidden relationship? Prometheite is Ari Mulch's first graphic novella.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781941250501
Publisher:	Uncivilized Books
Publication date:	09/06/2022
Pages:	98
Product dimensions:	8.80(w) x 7.20(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Ari S. Mulch is a cartoonist, painter, printmaker, and connoisseur of women. Created in a horrific experiment by two small-town goths, they are the most influential person to come out of Springfield Illinois since Abraham Lincoln. Ari fled the flatlands in 2015 to study comic art and printmaking at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Their soul was soon captured by the dark forces of lesbianism and comics with lots of sex and swearing, and they have been toiling away at their tales of dark hysteria ever since.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“Ari’s sensibilities and expressive characters make it a must-read. Best lesbian corpse romance in recent memory."—Michelle Perez

Editorial Reviews

08/22/2022

In her debut graphic novella, Mulch takes on Mary Shelley’s immortal Frankenstein, giving it a clever queer romance twist by reversing the gender of two of the main characters. The story opens in the early 19th century, with heroine Violet breaking gender norms of the day by studying anatomy in Ingolstadt, Germany. There she meets Aveline, the sister of her classmate Henry. Violet is instantly “smitten” with the buxom, sassy Aveline, noting that “her quick wit and bold personality contrasted with my own contemplative nature.” As they grow closer, Aveline reads Sappho’s poetry aloud to Violet, and shows her an experiment in which she uses electricity to reanimate a dead frog. But their budding romance is shattered when Aveline falls ill and dies. Soon after, Violet unwisely revives Aveline’s corpse, before learning that tampering with life and death can have gruesome, tragic consequences. Mulch’s drawings are not particularly stylish, though her judicious use of bloody hues of red against an otherwise black and white palette is effective, particularly when delineating viscera and other scenes of queasy horror. It’s a bit too brief in narrative as a full book release, but will appeal as a quick and cute-creepy divergence for queer romance readers. (Sept.)

Publishers Weekly