Frankie and Stein
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Frankie and Stein is a Web Comic by Margo Zeno about a little Mad Scientist named Stein whose mother tells him to make a friend...
...so he does.
He robs "the cursed grave" and steals a brain, and, by the end of Chapter 1, Frankie is alive and ready for action!
There are a few supporting characters, including Stein's cousin Karl, his also Frankenstein's Monster best friend Adam, and Adam's also Mad Scientist sister Shelly.
Tropes used in Frankie and Stein include:
- Adorable Abomination: Frankie
- Adorkable: Stein could certainly be considered such.
- Ambiguous Innocence
- Cheerful Child: Stein.
- Comically Missing the Point: If you can call it that. His mother tells him to "make a friend". He actually goes out and makes, by means of science, a friend.
- Creating Life: Chapter 1 is all about Stein doing this for Frankie.
- Creepy Child: Stein is starting to venture into this, what with this strip See below, in Dissonant Serenity.
- Creepy Doll: "SUTURE(tm) [dead link] will teach your child the meanings of loyalty, courage, and fear!"
- Deliberately Monochrome, of the pure black and white style. And it suits the tone very well.
- Department of Redundancy Department:
- meta version: "lying lie-face that lies" here.
- Dissonant Serenity: Stein acts this way... a lot. From graverobbing grinningly, to stealing a brain with a smile on his face, to excitedly explaining what he's going to do next half-way through creating his own Frankenstein's Monster with blood all over his face. Only, he's a little more upbeat than serene. This strip, in particular.
- Frankenstein's Monster: Frankie
- Grave Robbing
- Mad Scientist: Stein is a mini-version.
- Mad Scientist Laboratory: Stein has one, complete with table and octopus.
- Shout-Out: There are quite a few.
- Frankenstein, both book and various movies.
- There's a character named Shelly, referencing Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein.
- One of the various book titles, Trampling in God's Domain, on this early page references debates about the story.
- Boris Karloff's The Body Snatcher
- The Weeping Angel in the graveyard.
- "Ground Control to Major Stein" references a David Bowie song.
- "Oh my Invisible Pink Unicorn!" references the parody deity, the Invisible Pink Unicorn.
- Frankenstein, both book and various movies.
- Sliding Scale of Comedy and Horror.
- The Un-Reveal: Oh no, Karl's gonna find Frankie and know immediately what's going on! ...or, um, not.
- Unsound Effect
- What the Hell, Hero?: Stein on Page 40... What the hell, Stein?!
- Written Sound Effect