![]() Trauma, fate, conscience, and redemption are just a few of the themes that intersect in the most ambitious (and intense) graphic novel of Windsor-Smith's career. ![]() Windsor-Smith has been working on this passion project for more than 35 years, and Monsters is part intergenerational family drama, part espionage thriller, and part metaphysical journey. As the titular monsters multiply, becoming real and metaphorical, literal and ironic, the story reaches its emotional and moral reckoning. Originally pitched in 1984 as an Incredible Hulk one-shot exploring Bruce Banner’s abusive childhood, the story was. Monsters, he says, is about 'two disparate American families fatefully connected by an abandoned. ![]() ![]() His only ally, Sergeant McFarland, intervenes to try to protect him, which sets off a chain of events that spin out of everyone's control. One of the most eagerly-awaited titles is Monsters by Barry Windsor-Smith, published Apby Fantagraphics Books, the Seattle-based specialist in literary graphica and comics. For decades, Barry Windsor-Smith’s Monsters was a comic-book urban legend. Barry Windsor-Smith's Monsters is now scheduled for January 19th, 2021 and is 380 pages long. By Zack Quaintance Monsters by Barry Windsor-Smith is a massive feat of a graphic novel some 35 years in the making, grown from ideas originally born during the artist’s time writing and illustrating the classic anti-military industrial complex Marvel Comics story, Wolverine: Weapon X. military experimental genetics program that was discovered in Nazi Germany 20 years prior. In this pen-and-ink graphic novel, in 1964, Bobby Bailey is recruited for a U.S. ![]() Genres: Graphic Novels, Literature, Military ![]()
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