@tommythehitman: Right?? Can't decide if pointless see through guy or world's most disappointing mummy XD He has a certain appeal though stylistically that I can't really deny :)
I hadn't actually read the classic horror stories (except for Frankenstein) until several years ago, and then I went on a binge-read of Dracula, Dr. Jekyll and Mister Hyde, The Invisible Man, and probably a couple I've forgotten, and they were all...kind of disappointing, actually. They were so tame. I kept reading them, thinking, "Man, maybe this was terrifying to people when they were first published, but wow, <yawn>." lol
Don't get me wrong, I actually really love the stories, but they're not the blood curdling horror epics I was expecting. And The Invisible Man was just kind of funny. It got to be a downright satire towards the end. I mean, he's running invisi-naked from one town to another, and as fast as he can run, the paper is reporting his deeds? It was one run- and how many editions came out while he was out there? It was just funny. But to me, the real potential of that story was the journals left with Marvel. That was begging for the continuation.
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