Herbert West Reanimator may have been dashed off as a ‘quickie grue’ series for Lovecraft, written to help a friend fill a new magazine of cheap titillation. But within the tale may lie “philosophical and theological themes”. Or such is the claim of the creatives behind the new graphic novel, Reanimator Incorporated. This re-tells West by pointing up these themes, making the tale an “exploration of existence itself”. The creatives have also shifted the setting to the future, with the serum becoming a “AI-driven atomic assembler unit”. Part one of the six-part series is out now.