Forty Days of Frankenstein, Day Thirty-Five: So, I have a theory of sorts—call it Eernisse’s conjecture—which I’ve seen evidence of time and time again. Given a major pop-culture character with a sufficiently long story run, the character in question will eventually, at some point, encounter the Frankenstein monster. (An inverse corollary is that if a major pop-culture character has not encountered the Frankenstein monster, it is merely because the character’s story run is currently insufficiently long.) A list of pop-culture character who have encountered the Monster in some form or fashion includes: Dracula, Mighty Mouse, Batman, Bugs Bunny, Popeye, Woody Woodpecker, Mr. Magoo, Ernie and Bert, Sherlock Holmes, Santa Claus—the list goes on and on. And in 2011, cover dated November, Mike Mignola’s excellent creation Hellboy met the monster, in an original graphic novel, *Hellboy: House of the Living Dead*. It’s a loving valentine to the 1944 Universal monster mash *House of Frankenstein*, mixed with Mexican luchador monster movies. Hellboy and the Monster end up drinking tequila in a bar together, which is exactly what you want. The Monster’s design is very over-the-top, with a truly silly number and placement of electrodes. It works, though.