Moon Girl And Devil Dinosaurs Analysis

Both Frankenstein and “Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur” take into question the implications and repercussions involved in creating and altering life forms. What is interesting to consider is that while Shelley’s protagonist is at fault for becoming a “God” figure through his pursuit to create new life, Luna is a product of this type of creationist behaviour. In the detailed panel of Luna’s laboratory, it is explained that “two hundred years ago a bunch of aliens thought it was okay to experiment on us [by] messing in our gene pool.” These aliens are to Victor as Luna is to Frankenstein’s monster. This is to say that, because they have different motivations their respective laboratories serve differing purposes; Luna’s lab is where she creates a variety of technologies in an attempt to “deactivate” her manipulated DNA, while Victor’s lab was previously a place where his mind was taken over by a type of “enthusiastic [creationist] frenzy.” Despite this difference in motivation, the fact that both Victor and Luna’s labs are secluded (Victor in the Orkneys, and Luna’s hidden beneath her school) suggests the necessity of this “solitude” in order for the scientists to house their ideas, their creations, and their technologies.

Their labs, in this sense, are emblematic of the complexities in their brains; Luna’s lab is littered with the tools she creates with, and Victor’s lab is filled with the remnants of his creation “scattered on the floor.” These depictions follow in the tradition of the scientist as both physically and emotionally removed from