The fact that there is no color helps the art shine even brighter. On a purely visual level, Monsters feels great to read. Those are the parts I will not spoil, as I believe they make up the core of the narrative. Most of the book is spent on flashbacks about Bobby’s youth, his life with his parents, and his childhood trauma. This is just the beginning of the story, though. He is fooled into joining a top-secret army project called the Prometheus Initiative, that sees him turn into a horrifying creature, a supposed super-soldier. Bobby seems to have no documentation, no friends and no close relatives. Bobby is a very quiet and visibly disturbed young man who has problems communicating with others. Monsters tells the story of Bobby Bailey, who joins the US Army in hopes to follow on the steps of his deceased father. This book is one of the best contemporary graphic novels I have read. You can imagine my joy when I was told Mr Windsor-Smith had finally finished Monsters, his twenty-years-in-the-making masterpiece that started as a rejected Hulk story. One of my favorite Marvel comics of all time is Barry Windsor-Smith’s Weapon X, a comic that tells the story of Wolverine’s origin in an interesting and creative way, avoiding many of the tropes that had plagued “origin story” superhero comics since their very conception.
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