It is surely one of the most intense graphic novels ever drawn.” There are passages of heartbreaking tenderness, of excruciating pain, and devastating violence. “Monsters is rendered in Windsor-Smith’s impeccable pen-and-ink technique, the visual storytelling with its sensitivity to gesture and composition is the most sophisticated of the artist’s career. Trauma, fate, conscience, and redemption are just a few of the themes that intersect in the most ambitious graphic novel of Windsor-Smith’s career. It’s part familial drama, part political thriller, part metaphysical journey it is an intimate portrait of individuals struggling to reclaim their lives and an epic political odyssey across two generations of American history. As the titular monsters of the title multiply, becoming real and metaphorical, literal and ironic, the story reaches its emotional and moral reckoning. government experimental program - an unholy genetics program discovered in Nazi Germany during World War II…īailey’s only ally and protector, Sergeant McFarland, intervenes, which sets off a chain of cascading events that spin out of everyone’s control. Close-mouthed, damaged, innocent, trying to forget a past and looking for a future, it turns out that Bobby Bailey is the perfect candidate for a secret U.S. A 360-page tour de force of visual storytelling, Monsters‘ narrative canvas is vast and deep. Monsters is the legendary project Barry Windsor-Smith has been working on for over 35 years. Pin-Up & Adult –You must be 18 or older.
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