I find myself wishing I could like this retelling more, as it's a gorgeous book. However, there are just a couple of quibbles I have with it.
For starters, this retelling adds some unnecessary details? There's an Igor-like character, Sven, and a small story about Victor stealing a recently deceased giant from a circus for his creature's body, neither of which I particularly care about.
There's also some book stuff that sort of got left out, less plot details or characters but just elements that made up the heart of the story.
While the creature's isolation as he "grew up" in the few years after his birth away from Victor are well realized, I feel that this adaptation does a disservice to Victor's and Walton's own sense of isolation, from Walton wishing for a companion on his voyage to Victor losing himself in his work at college, neglecting his personal ties in the process. This is where the decision to give Victor an Igor in Sven really hurts the story's themes, in my opinion.
The story also spnds very little time on Frankenstein's family, and while I understand that they can make for a slow and even at times boring beginning, I feel that not dwelling upon them until they are directly plot relevant in the climax really lessens the tragedy. "He murdered my family, who I am just now telling you about" doesn't have the same punch as seeing this family be happy and destroyed through Victor's and the creature's actions.
So too is the friendship that Walton and Victor developed absent in their exchanges, Victor telling his story a more clinical confession. This is a retelling detached from the human connections that made up the original tale.
I also find that I don't quite like Victor's character design? There's nothing wrong with it, but to me, he looks a bit more stereotypical masculine than I imagine Victor being. I think this in part a preference I've formed from other adaptations that make Victor more waifish with delicate features. A "pretty boy" type, if you will, which I find makes the juxtaposition between him and his hulking creation quite striking.
Still, the drawings are BEAUTIFUL, so this is still a solid recommend from me for any Frankenstein fan's library or TBR pile. The linework reminds me of an old-school adventure comic.
As I don't want to sound like a hater, I should mention that artwork aside, one detail I really appreciated was the adaptation's choice to make the Creature's famous "You will regret this, Frankenstein! I will be with you on your wedding night" speech dream like, with Victor wondering if it even happened at all. This helps to better explain why events continued to unfold as they did.