Publisher: Vault Comics Writer/Letterer: Paul Allor Artwork: Paul Tucker Release Date: 20th October 2021 EL is alone and EL is in pain; a patchwork of scraps of human flesh and organs trapped in a mechanical body, tortured and experimented on to the point of madness, until he meets Mateo, a mechanic who offers him an escape and the freedom he’s so desperate for. Hollow Heart is a story very much in the style of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. A patchwork man, hated and scorned and mistreated by his creators, desperately looking for freedom and a connection with another human being. This is a story of love and hope and betrayal and great pain; and as monstrous as he sees himself, EL finds himself falling for Mateo. This isn’t just EL’s story, though. There are a number of lives intertwining EL’s, all of them seeking (and in most cases failing) to make a connection, whether that’s with a partner, or a child or just some kind of sexual release. This is a horror story, undeniably so, and the very existence of EL is a horror. He’s a literal Frankenstein’s monster created from the parts of multiple donors and stitched together in an [...]