Monsters

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At its heart, Monsters is a tender and involved family drama, but it comes dressed in not one but two layers of fantasy: mad Nazi scientists and a supernatural subplot involving ghosts and psychic powers. Intriguingly, one comics expert I spoke to told me that it started life all those years ago as a Hulk story. With its super-powered, lonely monster being pursued by a furious military man, the suggestion sounds very plausible. Doane, Alan David (2006). "Comic Book Galaxy presents an exclusive first look at the new Thing graphic novel by Barry Windsor-Smith". Comic Book Galaxy. Archived from the original on 17 July 2012 . Retrieved 9 January 2006. a b Daniels, Les (1991). "Research and Development (1970–1978)". Marvel: Five Fabulous Decades of the World's Greatest Comics. New York City: Harry N. Abrams. p.150. ISBN 9780810938212. a b c d e Barry Smith at the Grand Comics Database and Barry Windsor-Smith at the Grand Comics Database Levitz, Paul (2010). 75 Years of DC Comics The Art of Modern Mythmaking. Cologne, Germany: Taschen. p.626. ISBN 978-3-8365-1981-6. 'An Evening With Superman' This oversize art book has entered fan folklore because of the years it has spent in limbo.

Smith designed and drew the fictitious comic strip "Mandro" for the 1981 Oliver Stone horror film The Hand. In the film, the artwork is used as that of character Jon Lansdale, a comic book illustrator played by Michael Caine. [25] Stone explains the hiring of Smith thus: Academy of Comic Book Arts Shazam Awards Best Individual Story ("Lair of the Beast Men," by Roy Thomas and Barry Smith, from Conan the Barbarian #2) (nominated) [42] Was Once a Man: Name dropped by Dr. Cornelius after getting a good look at what they have turned Logan into. The terms I need to use in the script (all spouting from the paranoiac and drunken Tom Banner) are actually mild when paralleled to other – perhaps more sophisticated – media such as film, print and (at this date) television. Rosenfeld, Jason (April 2021). "Barry Windsor-Smith's Monsters". The Brooklyn Rail. Archived from the original on 2 May 2021 . Retrieved 1 May 2021.There's an old writing adage that says show don't tell. BWS manages to do both -- at the same time. He shows us what's going on and then has a character write down what just happened in her journal. Or people will talk about what's happening as it's happening. This doesn't just happen once, but over and over again. The special properties and history of Adamantium are not gone into. In this story, it just seems to be a very strong alloy. Weapon X is a comic book story from Marvel Comics, published in issues 72-84 of an Anthology Comic, Marvel Comics Presents. Written and drawn by Barry Windsor-Smith, it was set in the shared Marvel Universe and was the first comic arc to give a partial origin story of Wolverine, specifically the nightmarish non-consensual experiments that led to his Adamantium skeleton and identity amnesia. In terms of its lingering effects through the entire X-Men franchise, it is one of the most important story arcs, and inspired multiple films and episodes of television.

a b c d Edwards, Jan. "The British Fantasy Awards: a Short History". British Fantasy Society. (with additions from) David Sutton. Archived from the original on 10 November 2016 . Retrieved 20 June 2011. Implacable Man: One of the goals of the project is to create one. Logan was already superhumanly tough, but once he gains the Adamantium skeleton, he takes it to a new level. Climaxes when he is shown to survive a bath in molten nuclear waste and just keep coming.

McFarland, the dude with the Shining, is less of a character and more of a plot device - so much so that you could say this character IS the plot because without him there is no book. He happens to have an extremely contrived connection to the Baileys and he just happens to recommend Bobby Bailey for the Prometheus project and he just happens to have the Shining which helps resolve the whole story that he set in motion. I just found everything about this character far too convenient. years in the making, the most anticipated graphic novel in recent comics history! 2022 EISNER AWARD WINNER:

Windsor-Smith mounts compelling scenes of Elias cooped up in his basement taking scissors to his collection of Golden Age comics, or Tom plotting violent vengeance on the men who comforted his wife during his war. But these passages are there to take us deeper, to show how the men's dances on the threshold of their minds leave their families at thresholds far more real - abandoned by their breadwinners and traumatized by their behavior, left to the mercy of a society with just this side of nothing to offer them. Slowly, Janet Bailey emerges as Monsters' real main character, a desperate, determined woman dumped into a nightmare no self-sacrifice can stop from playing out. The question next becomes the book’s place within the medium writ large. The book’s size, scope, and grandiose prolonged production demand that it be evaluated on the level of other outsized works within the graphic novel medium. For better or worse, it begs to be evaluated on the grounds of whether or not it is a towering masterpiece, destined to be read for generations to come. As with the stories of the people in Monsters, the outcome of this examination is a messy one. In those days, I was on the road a lot, spending time in Europe with the licensees, at our London office, in L.A., or on licensing trips elsewhere. The book went to press without my seeing it. How Al didn’t notice, or someone else didn’t notice, I don’t know.For such a pain-stakingly put-together work, I’m sure Windsor-Smith was trying to say something “important”, but I couldn’t tell you what it was. As far as I can see, the “monsters” the title is referring to are, 1) abusive men, 2) genetically-modified people made to look like Quasimodo, and 3) Nazi scientists (or just Nazis generally). And so… what? Don’t most people already think those three things are monsters? It’s not like Windsor-Smith is telling or showing us anything mind-blowing. Manning, Matthew K. "1990s" in Gilbert (2008), p. 252: "It was not until Barry Windsor-Smith wrote and illustrated the thirteen-chapter Weapon X serial that fans really sat up and paid attention [to the Marvel Comics Presents series]." Special mention goes to him waking up during the Adamantium bonding process (i.e. having his skeleton coated in molten metal). a b Gravett, Paul (30 April 2021). "Prometheus rebounds: An alternative path for the Incredible Hulk legend in Monsters by Barry Windsor-Smith". The Times Literary Supplement. Archived from the original on 29 April 2021 . Retrieved 29 April 2021. The cross hatched ink art in this book perfectly captures the tone of the story and gives it a timeless feel. You can tell that BWS put a ton of effort in crafting every portion of this book. If I had one small complaint, it is that many of the adult males look very similar and can be difficult to tell apart, especially if they are wearing a hat. With a book this long, it is incredibly impressive that BWS was able to keep up the quality for such an extended time.

During his run on Conan the Barbarian, Windsor-Smith was involved in the writing as well. [10] He and writer Roy Thomas adapted a number of R.E. Howard short stories, the aforementioned "The Frost-Giant's Daughter", "Tower of the Elephant", "Rogues in the House", and "Red Nails". As well as the art and story contributions, Windsor-Smith provided the covers for most issues. They worked on original adventures and characters based on R.E. Howard's characters – most notably the flame-haired warrior-woman, Red Sonja – loosely based on a character from one of Howard's non-Conan stories, who has now become a major comics character in her own right – in "The Song of Red Sonja" in Conan the Barbarian No. 24 (March 1973), Windsor-Smith's last issue of the title. By then he had worked on 21 of the first 24 issues of the series, missing only issues No. 17 and No. 18, and No. 22 (which was a reprint of issue #1), and both he and the title had won a number of awards. Windsor-Smith would later say that the reason he missed those issues was because he had quit the series a number of times as he was dissatisfied with the work and how the comics business worked, rather than the deadline problems Marvel quoted. [11] In 2010, Comics Bulletin ranked Thomas and Windsor-Smith's work on Conan the Barbarian seventh on its list of the "Top 10 1970s Marvels". [12] Early-Installment Weirdness: With the tendency of future writers to Retcon and add elements and factions to the original project, the story comes off quite differently than it would in future stories: Windsor-Smith continues to note that he felt that the issue was important enough that he was going to do what he could to make sure the story could run as a single issue of Incredible Hulk – withOUT Comic Code Approval… DeFalco, Tom (2008). "1960s". In Gilbert, Laura (ed.). Marvel Chronicle A Year by Year History. London, United Kingdom: Dorling Kindersley. p.136. ISBN 978-0756641238. Practically indestructible, adamantium is a fictional metal alloy that first appeared in this issue [ The Avengers #66] by writer Roy Thomas and artist Barry Windsor-Smith.

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And I Must Scream: Logan is subjected to horrific experiments and goes in and out of awareness throughout due to being drugged out of his mind. He does end up screaming about how much pain he is in on multiple occasions. It Seems Like a Waste … Of the Dramatic Situation”: Ryūsuke Hamaguchi’s Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy By Dan Sullivan