![]() ![]() Simply put, Monsters by Barry Windsor-Smith is a disturbing tour de force of a book, as rich as any novel, moving and poetic in a way that ultimately asks far more questions than it answers, which is the mark of great fiction, at least as far as I’m concerned. It is, of course, so much more than that too. ![]() ![]() For those familiar with Windsor-Smith’s work, Monsters will perhaps most directly read as a grand expansion of the seeds planted within its forebear, epically freed from corporate IP constraints in ways that enable Windsor-Smith to pursue similar questions with a much more intricate and wider brush. 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. ![]()
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