![]() ![]() There’s a section of the book that feels very much like a Hulk story, in fact. I do know it’s been in the works for more than three decades and apparently started out as a Hulk story. ![]() ![]() I don’t know the full story behind this book but it will be revealed this summer in the next issue of Comic Book Creator. ![]() Sound effects, foreign languages, special fonts, and some of the most creative usage of word balloons I have ever encountered all serve to remind the reader that this is a master at work. No, what we have on view here is nothing less than a first-class master storyteller at his peak, telling a novel-length story in a novel’s length, slowly and deliberately paced with stunningly beautiful black and white line art every step of the way. In Monsters, the long-awaited new BWS graphic novel from Fantagraphics, we see no massive style transition of that type. I recently had an article in Back Issue where I wrote about how much fun it had been to watch young English artist Barry Windsor-Smith progress so quickly from his Steranko/Kirby-influenced Daredevil and X-Men to the lush neo-classical style he used for his ultimate Conan story, “Red Nails.” Written and Illustrated by Barry Windsor-Smith ![]()
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