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type: "codex"
title: "The Monster Survives the Cut"
summary: "A finished paper collage made by cutting and recomposing imagery sourced from a Frankenstein comic."
date_published: "2026-10-20T17:28:20.999Z"
date_modified: "2026-10-20T17:28:20.999Z"
status: "published"
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language: "en-US"
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  - "transformation"
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  - "comics"
  - "salvage"
  - "transformation"
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  - "Codex"
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  - "salvage"
  - "transformation"
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  - "comics"
author:
  id: "nathan-davis"
  name: "Nathan Davis"
  designation: "Archive Operator"
  role: "Archive Operator"
  handle: "@nathandavis"
  avatar: "/media/people/nathan-davis.jpg"
  bio: "Designer, builder, and curator of the Codex Archive."
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    name: "Nathan Davis"
    designation: "Archive Operator"
    role: "Archive Operator"
    handle: "@nathandavis"
    avatar: "/media/people/nathan-davis.jpg"
    bio: "Designer, builder, and curator of the Codex Archive."
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    src: "/media/codex/the-monster-survives-the-cut/the-monster-survives-the-cut-object.jpg"
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  - kind: "image"
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---
# The Monster Survives the Cut

Finished yesterday.

A Frankenstein comic, cut into narrow vertical strips and reassembled.

The original sequence is gone. Panels no longer proceed. Bodies, chains, lightning, speech, landscape, and machinery have been pulled through one another until the page behaves more like a field than a story.

But the charge remains.

Black interrupts green. White cuts through both. The strips become bars, stitches, scan lines, and pieces of a machine that may be holding the image together or keeping it contained.

The monster is no longer only a figure inside the source material.

It becomes the construction method.

Something assembled from pieces. Something made alive by interruption. Something whose previous bodies remain visible inside the new one.

![A vertical paper collage made from narrow strips of green, black, and white Frankenstein comic imagery, photographed on a dark wooden surface.](</media/codex/the-monster-survives-the-cut/the-monster-survives-the-cut-object.jpg>)

![The finished Frankenstein comic collage presented inside a wide white mat and narrow black frame.](</media/codex/the-monster-survives-the-cut/the-monster-survives-the-cut-framed.jpg>)