10/31/2024
The Halloween edition of my Sisyphean task of an art series, Pachishohma, features the horrifying experiment gone wrong known as Psychostein Grimson.
One of many, many, MANY failed attempts to replicate Baron Von Frankenstein's world-famous creation from back in 1818, Grimson was scientifically created to battle, kill, and finally devour all giant monster threats against modern day America that kept popping up on a near weekly basis.
While he wasn't the first artificial giant to go rogue (SEE Lady Liberty NY3), Psychostein Grimson has, unfortunately, become a murderous walker who stalks numerous cities, towns, and mountains at night, hibernating in the daytime, wherever the lust for murder takes his widening stride.
While the hulking fiend was originally created from a human co**se, the combination of growth hormones, military-grade cybernetic implants, gene-editing methods, and additional alien DNA collected from unwilling cosmic tourists, may have resulted in the monster's new vicious nature...
Though the donors of the original co**se and brain never did reveal who said body was; perhaps this mindless hostility is just a continuation of Psychostein's former life.
ELEMENTS and INFLUENCES USED FOR THIS ENTRY:
*The title card I drew for Brandon Tenold's review of THE DARK (1979).
*Frankenstein's Monster, both the 1818 novel and 1931 film.
*Dora Franke from episode 28 of ZYURANGER, "Clay Monsters, New And Improved" (September 4th, 1992).
*The titular giant of FRANKENSTEIN CONQUERS THE WORLD (1965).
*City photography by Shawnn Tan and Densky Simon.
