The obvious link that can be made in the comet and frankenstein is the story and struggles of the monster. Jim Davis personifies the “monster’s” struggle of being different and despised among humankind and yet desiring contact and love which he is denied even when he does something right. In Davis’ tale he is reduced to racism and subjugation the moment that the woman’s father and friends arrive. He had chosen to help rescue this woman in the midst of this crisis and experiences her change in attitude towards him. Then his transfiguration that occurred moments before in the woman’s eyes to that of a titan among men and some sort of ancient king to be the progenitor of a new humanity, is totally stripped from him with the first mention of the word nigger. This mirrors the word monster expressed in Frankenstein and carries the same evil stigma.
In the monster’s tale he rescues a young girl and is shot for it, he also helps the old man and his family for an entire season and they beat and reject him immediately upon seeing his figure.
This thread of of alienation occurs under different meaning and circumstance in “Who Goes There” and The Thing because it is sort of a reverse process in those instances. In these stories the alienation occurs as people are exposed to the virus that changes people into the “monster” and makes everyone suspicious of each other. Thus everyone becomes a suspect and thus is separated out from the rest of humanity whether anyone knows they’re an alien or not. To me that is the theme that threads though all of these stories.