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The Glass Scientists #3
The Glass Scientists: Volume Three
Witness the epic conclusion to the webcomic phenomenon about star-crossed lovers and misunderstood monsters in this third and final graphic novel!
Last we saw Dr. Jekyll he was on stage about to welcome everyone to his grand exhibition—the event meant to save his Society for Arcane Sciences and his way of life—when he collapsed, pulled under by his devilish alter ego Mr. Hyde. When he wakes, Jekyll assumes everything is doomed, but in a surprise to just about everyone, he couldn’t be more wrong. The event was a success, his band of rogue scientists now all have patrons, and business is booming. What’s more, he even plucks up the courage to do the scariest, craziest thing of confess his feelings for Lanyon. Everything is finally coming up Jekyll!
Oh, if only the good scientist remembered his physics, because what goes up must inevitably come crashing down. Just when everything Jekyll has worked and hoped for is finally within his grasp, the barrier between his dueling personalities is shattered. Both Jekyll and Hyde are thrown into a constant wrestling for control of both their minds and bodies, which seem to switch without rhyme or reason. In the chaos, Jekyll’s secret has never been more at risk of being exposed, and he won’t get any help concealing it from his other half. Hyde has finally gotten a taste of life as a free man, and if Jekyll (or anyone else) dares to take it away, well, we should all brace for impact.
Last we saw Dr. Jekyll he was on stage about to welcome everyone to his grand exhibition—the event meant to save his Society for Arcane Sciences and his way of life—when he collapsed, pulled under by his devilish alter ego Mr. Hyde. When he wakes, Jekyll assumes everything is doomed, but in a surprise to just about everyone, he couldn’t be more wrong. The event was a success, his band of rogue scientists now all have patrons, and business is booming. What’s more, he even plucks up the courage to do the scariest, craziest thing of confess his feelings for Lanyon. Everything is finally coming up Jekyll!
Oh, if only the good scientist remembered his physics, because what goes up must inevitably come crashing down. Just when everything Jekyll has worked and hoped for is finally within his grasp, the barrier between his dueling personalities is shattered. Both Jekyll and Hyde are thrown into a constant wrestling for control of both their minds and bodies, which seem to switch without rhyme or reason. In the chaos, Jekyll’s secret has never been more at risk of being exposed, and he won’t get any help concealing it from his other half. Hyde has finally gotten a taste of life as a free man, and if Jekyll (or anyone else) dares to take it away, well, we should all brace for impact.
240 pages, Hardcover
Published December 2, 2025
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October 31, 2025
“He says he doesn’t like you anymore, so you should just shack up with me instead.”
December 2, 2025
amazing. the last page and panel got me teary eyed
January 10, 2026
This comic, to me, is very much intertwined with my GCSE years - and now it finishes just before I'm about to sit my A-Levels. It means a lot to me, as not only the reason why I often called Lanyon 'Hastie' instead of 'Robert' in my essays (oops), but also as a super long-standing interest of mine that has stuck with me through a long period of my life (I've had a profile picture of Jekyll on Pinterest for at least.... 4 years? And a TGS sticker on my laptop since whenever the preorder rewards came for Volume One). I admit that I stopped reading it weekly quite some time ago, but, in some ways, that made this final installment even better - I didn't know what was going to happen!
And what a great final installment it was. I loved the reference to the confrontation from the musical - very silly but very funny! The art was breathtaking, as always, every frame was spectacular, especially with all the elements and madness going on in the last few chapters (and the chapter pages, my goddd). Loved Frankenstein!!
And, well, I love a good happy ending. Straying even further from the book than it did already, (and that's saying something. not a bad thing though!) I have to admit, I always found it difficult with this comic to reconcile the image of child-flatterning Hyde from the book with """""chaotic gremlin""""" Hyde from this comic, I was never quite convinced by the fact he was kind of.... funny, an okay guy, etc? So I really liked when he got properly evil in this to get Jekyll to give up his secret etc - though it worked out in the end! God, imagine being Lanyon... does that count as polyamory?
So, yes, a great ending to a comic that has seen me through a lot. I almost can't quite believe it has ended - it seemed to have been going on forever even when I first read it! Congratulations to the author for a great series (though they might be doing more??? idk, I'm uninformed! I just buy the books off of Amazon and wait 2 months for them to arrive because I'm in the UK!!)
And what a great final installment it was. I loved the reference to the confrontation from the musical - very silly but very funny! The art was breathtaking, as always, every frame was spectacular, especially with all the elements and madness going on in the last few chapters (and the chapter pages, my goddd). Loved Frankenstein!!
And, well, I love a good happy ending. Straying even further from the book than it did already, (and that's saying something. not a bad thing though!) I have to admit, I always found it difficult with this comic to reconcile the image of child-flatterning Hyde from the book with """""chaotic gremlin""""" Hyde from this comic, I was never quite convinced by the fact he was kind of.... funny, an okay guy, etc? So I really liked when he got properly evil in this to get Jekyll to give up his secret etc - though it worked out in the end! God, imagine being Lanyon... does that count as polyamory?
So, yes, a great ending to a comic that has seen me through a lot. I almost can't quite believe it has ended - it seemed to have been going on forever even when I first read it! Congratulations to the author for a great series (though they might be doing more??? idk, I'm uninformed! I just buy the books off of Amazon and wait 2 months for them to arrive because I'm in the UK!!)
January 3, 2026
I cannot recommend this series enough, just wow! This fills the mad scientist hole in my life that I didn’t know I had and I am so happy. What a way to end a 10+ year project💕🧪
*I will say, the end chapter felt a tad rushed, but still a wonderful way to conclude these characters stories
*I will say, the end chapter felt a tad rushed, but still a wonderful way to conclude these characters stories
December 27, 2025
It's a fun take on the original Jekyll and Hyde book. I enjoyed this volume and everyone before it.
Side note: THEY SAID THE THING!!!!! THE THING FROM THE MUSICAL!!!!
Side note: THEY SAID THE THING!!!!! THE THING FROM THE MUSICAL!!!!
December 18, 2025
Beautiful conclusion to the series.
Absolutely gagged that I finally got to see the ending. What a journey The Glass Scientists has been.
Summary:
This book is the third and final installation to the printed version of a webcomic called The Glass Scientists published on Hiveworks Comics. The work is a remix of Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson with elements of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. The story follows Dr. Henry Jekyll struggling to keep the Scientific Society for 'rouge scientists' that he runs afloat. As of the end of the second book, Jekyll is struggling as the stress of the Society, his unrequited love, Robert Lanyon, from university, and the burden of his mischievous alter ego Edward Hyde. In this extension, we see Jekyll working to solve these issues, his life is looking up until he begins having uncontrollable transformations into the less sociable half of him: Mr. Hyde... who happens to have the police and several other groups after him.
My Opinion:
Maybe I'm biased because I've been following this series for about a year now after picking it up at the library on a whim, but it gets 5/5 stars. The art style is beautiful and it's amazing to see Contugno's art changing to suit them as the series comes to a conclusion. It may sound cheesy, but this comic got me into graphic novels and back into art after quitting; it gave me something to reignite my creativity and spark to read in a time when it had dulled. For that I am grateful. Happy reading, everyone.
Absolutely gagged that I finally got to see the ending. What a journey The Glass Scientists has been.
Summary:
This book is the third and final installation to the printed version of a webcomic called The Glass Scientists published on Hiveworks Comics. The work is a remix of Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson with elements of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. The story follows Dr. Henry Jekyll struggling to keep the Scientific Society for 'rouge scientists' that he runs afloat. As of the end of the second book, Jekyll is struggling as the stress of the Society, his unrequited love, Robert Lanyon, from university, and the burden of his mischievous alter ego Edward Hyde. In this extension, we see Jekyll working to solve these issues, his life is looking up until he begins having uncontrollable transformations into the less sociable half of him: Mr. Hyde... who happens to have the police and several other groups after him.
My Opinion:
Maybe I'm biased because I've been following this series for about a year now after picking it up at the library on a whim, but it gets 5/5 stars. The art style is beautiful and it's amazing to see Contugno's art changing to suit them as the series comes to a conclusion. It may sound cheesy, but this comic got me into graphic novels and back into art after quitting; it gave me something to reignite my creativity and spark to read in a time when it had dulled. For that I am grateful. Happy reading, everyone.
January 1, 2026
The Glass Scientists graphic novels were such a fun adventure. I enjoyed reading the journey Jekyll and Hyde took throughout the volumes and the ending of that journey was so satisfying in my eyes. As was the ending for everyone at the Society for Arcane Sciences. Jasper especially made me so happy. His character development was great.
Now I know it was just a subplot but Jekyll and Lanyon stole my heart in this final volume. Their love for each other shone off the pages and I enjoyed the depth of their friendship. I might have been a little worried what would happen to them going into this but I am so relieved that their ending left me feeling hopeful.
And I of course have to mention the art, it was stunning as usual! I especially enjoyed the transition panels.
*The publisher gifted me a finished copy. All opinions are my own.*
Now I know it was just a subplot but Jekyll and Lanyon stole my heart in this final volume. Their love for each other shone off the pages and I enjoyed the depth of their friendship. I might have been a little worried what would happen to them going into this but I am so relieved that their ending left me feeling hopeful.
And I of course have to mention the art, it was stunning as usual! I especially enjoyed the transition panels.
*The publisher gifted me a finished copy. All opinions are my own.*
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January 2, 2026
There's some changes in it from the webcomic that make it clearer about how the ending goes that I kicked my feet in excitement upon seeing, so when I got to the page of the reveal, I screamed. I ended up doing a re-read marathon to re-experience the series from the very beginning to the very end (okay like again but like its so easy to just re-read this series over and over, its always at my fingertips and the website loads so smoothly!)
Anyway, I laughed and got a bit teary-eyed at the end, seeing Henry and Edward begin to accept each other and how theatrical they both are (a delight!!! Edward called him delightful!!!!!!!) and Robert drawing the line at indoor plumbing, like the prim and prissy gentleman he is, I laughed a bit more than I care to admit. And goddammit, the Confrontation scene will forever be one of my all-time favorite moments in comic history, and being on the site and reacting with everyone still makes me grin (and mayhaps predicting the scene via fanart a few weeks earlier like man I may have been buzzing with energy that day, explaining why to my poor coworkers was a trip haha)
...and man, the short story at the end: one, please I want to see Henry with a streak of blond in his hair like Edward has the brown, and two, PLEASE I WANT MORE SIDE STORY WITH JASPER AND THE REST OF THE SCIENTISTS PUNCHING MILLIONAIRES. God Jasper really coming into his own and finding his confidence and (at least mentally) calling out Henry's go to of 'lonely prince oh woe is me I dont deserve any of this' when omg Henry please. Seriously, I feel like seeing Jasper wolf out against Victorian millionaires will heal a part of my soul that has no choice but to be at the whims of modern-day millionaires.
Anyway, I laughed and got a bit teary-eyed at the end, seeing Henry and Edward begin to accept each other and how theatrical they both are (a delight!!! Edward called him delightful!!!!!!!) and Robert drawing the line at indoor plumbing, like the prim and prissy gentleman he is, I laughed a bit more than I care to admit. And goddammit, the Confrontation scene will forever be one of my all-time favorite moments in comic history, and being on the site and reacting with everyone still makes me grin (and mayhaps predicting the scene via fanart a few weeks earlier like man I may have been buzzing with energy that day, explaining why to my poor coworkers was a trip haha)
...and man, the short story at the end: one, please I want to see Henry with a streak of blond in his hair like Edward has the brown, and two, PLEASE I WANT MORE SIDE STORY WITH JASPER AND THE REST OF THE SCIENTISTS PUNCHING MILLIONAIRES. God Jasper really coming into his own and finding his confidence and (at least mentally) calling out Henry's go to of 'lonely prince oh woe is me I dont deserve any of this' when omg Henry please. Seriously, I feel like seeing Jasper wolf out against Victorian millionaires will heal a part of my soul that has no choice but to be at the whims of modern-day millionaires.
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December 15, 2025
5 / 5 stars!
December 19, 2025
Solid series
December 21, 2025
Have been reading this story for a long time online! Beautiful art, story and all round characters! I love these funky scientists. I'll miss them dearly... I can't believe Jekyll is dead for real...
December 14, 2025
Definitely took a turn for the cheesy at the end but I loved the journey to get there :)
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