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Made Men: Getting the Gang Back Together
The A-Team meets Frankenstein.
When Jutte Shelley and her squad are gunned down in an ambush, it looks like the end for the Detroit police officers, but Jutte comes from a very storied family… named Frankenstein. Using the secrets of her ancestors, Jutte enters the family business of resurrection, bringing her squad back from the dead. Sort of. As long as you don’t look too close. Eager for revenge, they’ve no choice but to team with the Detroit mob, using them for the resources to find the lowlifes who did them in, now that Jutte has quite literally gotten the gang back together.
When Jutte Shelley and her squad are gunned down in an ambush, it looks like the end for the Detroit police officers, but Jutte comes from a very storied family… named Frankenstein. Using the secrets of her ancestors, Jutte enters the family business of resurrection, bringing her squad back from the dead. Sort of. As long as you don’t look too close. Eager for revenge, they’ve no choice but to team with the Detroit mob, using them for the resources to find the lowlifes who did them in, now that Jutte has quite literally gotten the gang back together.
128 pages, Paperback
First published July 10, 2018
About the author
Paul Tobin
897 books410 followersPaul Tobin is the Eisner-award winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Bandette, Colder, and many other comic books and graphic series.
Bandette, drawn by Colleen Coover, was awarded the Eisner Award for Best Digital Series in 2013, 2016, and 2017; and was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award for Graphic Literature in 2016. His original graphic novel I Was the Cat was nominated for an Eisner in 2015.
The Genius Factor: How to Capture an Invisible Cat , first in his five-book series of middle-grade books, came out in 2016 from Bloomsbury Kids. It was followed in 2017 by How To Outsmart A billion Robot Bees , and How To Tame A Human Tornado in March 2018.
Bandette, drawn by Colleen Coover, was awarded the Eisner Award for Best Digital Series in 2013, 2016, and 2017; and was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award for Graphic Literature in 2016. His original graphic novel I Was the Cat was nominated for an Eisner in 2015.
The Genius Factor: How to Capture an Invisible Cat , first in his five-book series of middle-grade books, came out in 2016 from Bloomsbury Kids. It was followed in 2017 by How To Outsmart A billion Robot Bees , and How To Tame A Human Tornado in March 2018.
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December 6, 2018
I think Tobin and Susini are going for gonzo, but Made Men just comes off sloppy and dumb.
In a funny bit of synchronicity for me, I had just finished Junji Ito's adaptation of Frankenstein the day before, and not having read the back cover of this book, I was unaware that it too was related to Shelley's novel when I snatched it randomly off my shelf of library books. It seems that the protagonist, Jutte (Jootee? Yootah? Not sure how you'd pronounce it.) is a descendant of Victor Frankenstein's smarter and previously unmentioned sister, Cecilia. When she and her team of fellow police officers are ambushed, she uses her family secrets to literally put them back together for revenge. (The subtitle is the best part of the book.)
There's plenty of sex and violence, but little sense and no ending. And since no issue #6 has come out since #5 was published in January of 2018, and the publisher didn't label this a volume 1, I'm not too sure an ending will ever come. Well, no big loss.
You know, I'm generally against all the endless copyright extensions fueled by Disney and other large corporations to protect their intellectual properties, but junk like this could certainly be used as an argument against letting works go into the public domain. Why do creators keep rehashing something Mary Shelley did 200 years ago instead of coming up with something wholly original?
Anyhow, I love Tobin's Bandette series, but this book and The Complete Colder Omnibus make me leery of picking up anything of his that does not include Colleen Coover in the future.
In a funny bit of synchronicity for me, I had just finished Junji Ito's adaptation of Frankenstein the day before, and not having read the back cover of this book, I was unaware that it too was related to Shelley's novel when I snatched it randomly off my shelf of library books. It seems that the protagonist, Jutte (Jootee? Yootah? Not sure how you'd pronounce it.) is a descendant of Victor Frankenstein's smarter and previously unmentioned sister, Cecilia. When she and her team of fellow police officers are ambushed, she uses her family secrets to literally put them back together for revenge. (The subtitle is the best part of the book.)
There's plenty of sex and violence, but little sense and no ending. And since no issue #6 has come out since #5 was published in January of 2018, and the publisher didn't label this a volume 1, I'm not too sure an ending will ever come. Well, no big loss.
You know, I'm generally against all the endless copyright extensions fueled by Disney and other large corporations to protect their intellectual properties, but junk like this could certainly be used as an argument against letting works go into the public domain. Why do creators keep rehashing something Mary Shelley did 200 years ago instead of coming up with something wholly original?
Anyhow, I love Tobin's Bandette series, but this book and The Complete Colder Omnibus make me leery of picking up anything of his that does not include Colleen Coover in the future.
February 20, 2018
[advance review copy]
This pulled me right in from the beginning and was pretty interesting all the way through. Lots of violence and sex, almost to a ridiculous degree, in my opinion. It called a bit too much attention to itself as opposed to feeling like it's a part of the story. Still, it's an interesting concept with interesting characters.
This pulled me right in from the beginning and was pretty interesting all the way through. Lots of violence and sex, almost to a ridiculous degree, in my opinion. It called a bit too much attention to itself as opposed to feeling like it's a part of the story. Still, it's an interesting concept with interesting characters.
July 22, 2018
It's so like. aggressively sex positive? which I guess is good but god is it wearing. Every (well, both since there are only really 2 who are adults and like. flesh out characters) female character is constantly like "did you know that WOMEN love to FUCK woah sexual liberation amirite" which is fine but like. god. gets boring fast.
November 8, 2018
Made Men is a unique gem, where you have an awesome arsenal of the X-factors but everything failed to come together. If you ever wonder how good ideas can go wrong, go no further.
February 12, 2019
Made Men has a fine concept (Frankenstein descendant can bring the dead back to life), but it's 60% sarcasm-laced dialogue, 30% sex scenes, and maybe 10% cool sci-fi weirdness. Jutte (Joot?) is the main character here, a former cop who, after being murdered and self-resurrected, is now working on hunting down her killers. But the killer hunting is really just a side plot to talking about killer hunting, which, as you can imagine, is deathly boring, even with Paul Tobin's above average writing skills. I'll probably skip future volumes, even though this one cuts off mid-story.
July 3, 2018
Of all the Frankenstein comic book adaptations featuring pretty kick ass women, this is my favourite.
I really, really, really want some more.
It’s clever, bloody, and sex-positive.
And was that Jutte’s “cousin” that I saw? Bet you $1
I really, really, really want some more.
It’s clever, bloody, and sex-positive.
And was that Jutte’s “cousin” that I saw? Bet you $1
December 2, 2023
A squad of police officers fall prey to an ambush, and one of them turns out to an immortal scion of the Frankenstein family, who uses her inherited lab to stitch together (in various configurations) and revive her teammates, in order to hunt down the person who murdered them. Quite a few amusing bits and some entertaining ideas, though it never quited jelled for me as a narrative.
March 22, 2022
Made Men is wild. Copious sex scenes and gore. Plenty of action in a fantastical setting. The unpredictability gives you whiplash in a good way, I think. Loving the series so far and looking forward to reading more!
August 23, 2018
Solid 3.5+great horror, cops pulp mash up.
September 22, 2018
Wacky and funny
October 1, 2018
Loved the 'Frankenstein' premise and the Detroit setting. Strong writing, strong characters, and strong art.
October 13, 2018
Art, concept and nuance. Loved it all. Can't wait for volume 2.
November 9, 2018
Obsessed
March 23, 2019
Graphic and visceral but entertaining and weird. It was very unique.
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February 26, 2020Unexpectedly Horny
December 8, 2024
An author more concerned with GRRRRL Power and Fucking gets in the way of a good story, so the whole thing ends without any of the threads wrapped up.
February 23, 2026
fun mini series that seems to stop at issue 5. great characters having a fun time whenever they can.
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