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"I'm obsessed with Frankenstein," David Harbor told New York Comic Con 2024 this weekend. "I love Frankenstein, there are so many great iterations."

That's pretty good news for not just Frankenstein fans, but for DC Studios in particular. In case you weren't aware, Stranger Things star Harbour will provide the voice for the Frankenstein iteration that appears in the upcoming Max animated series Creature Commandos, based on the DC version of the classic literary monster. At NYCC 2024's Happy Sad Confused panel, host Josh Horowitz asked Harbour to talk about his time in the bolts.

"I play Eric Frankenstein," Harbour began, "Who is Frankenstein's monster. [Creature Commandos] is a great take on the Frankenstein thing." The reason Creature Commandos is such a fascinating take on the lore, says Harbour, isn't just the character he plays, but his relationship with a different classic horror character.

"[The show] is so great because you get Frankenstein and you also get his Bride," Harbour said. He's talking about the Bride of Frankenstein, the giant-haired character made famous by Elsa Lanchester all the way back in 1935, and then written into DC Comics in 1986. She's one of the most well-known of the Universal Hoorror Monsters, but if you need a refresher, let the Frankenstein-obsessive himself explain it.

"Frankenstein is very lonely because he's the only created man. And women don't like him," Harbour told the Javits Center crowd. "He needs a bride because everyone should have a partner, so he creates one. Then, of course, it's not all it's chalked up to be. It's fantastic; in the midst of this like weird angry team of heroes, you also have an anti rom-com between a few monsters. 

Harbour didn't explain exactly what that "anti rom-com" would look like - is the opposite of meet cute a meet scare? That would fit - but we can extrapolate at the very least that it means the Frankenstein/Bride relationship will act as B-plot to Creature Commandos. We can't help but think of another grounded human relationship "in the midst of [a] weird angry team of heroes story," that is, Bloodsport and Ratcatcher in James Gunn's The Suicide Squad. There was nothing romantic about their relationship however, so if Creature Commandos was an "anti rom-com," is that movie an "anti buddy comedy?"

It's for wiser minds than mine to say. Maybe we'll find out more when Creature Commandos debuts on Max December 5.

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