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Indlæser... Monstersaf Barry Windsor-Smith
   Ingen Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog.   ) AmyMacEvilly | Nov 21, 2022 |  A weird but ultimately boring mash-up of Captain America, the Hulk, The Shining, and domestic tragedy begins with an army recruiter in the 1960s delivering up a prospective candidate for a dubious super-soldier program. The first psychological sidetrack dumps us into the recruiter's mental breakdown as he struggles with his guilty conscience. Then a giant, powerful subject of the program escapes and we're dumped into a second psychological sidetrack as events flash back to 1949 and the diary of the behemoth's mother. She recounts how her husband has come back from the war different and dangerous, but it takes forever to actually reach the horrible moments of violence we are told about upfront. Surely, now we're ready for the big finale? But no, now we must flash back to the final days of the Allied invasion of Germany to find out the bizarre and grotesque events that are the roots of all that has come before. By the time we finally reach a conclusion the story is so full of forced coincidences that the author feels compelled to mention "fate" and "destiny" to make excuses for the ridiculousness. I've enjoyed Barry Windsor-Smith's work in the past, but this one unfortunately left me cold and bored. p.s., The history of how this book came to be is actually more interesting to me than the book. It probably would have been awesome at 30 pages and me still in my teens: https://bleedingcool.com/comics/multiple-publisher-disorder-history-barry-windso... (  ) villemezbrown | Sep 27, 2021 | BWS's art is at his top, but it loses some steam in the last part of book, but it is still a great book. (  ) apokoliptian | Jul 16, 2021 | ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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In this pen-and-ink graphic novel, in 1964, Bobby Bailey is recruited for a U.S. military experimental genetics program that was discovered in Nazi Germany 20 years prior. His only ally, Sergeant McFarland, intervenes to try to protect him, which sets off a chain of events that spin out of everyone's control. As the titular monsters multiply, becoming real and metaphorical, literal and ironic, the story reaches its emotional and moral reckoning. Windsor-Smith has been working on this passion project for more than 35 years, and Monsters is part intergenerational family drama, part espionage thriller, and part metaphysical journey. Trauma, fate, conscience, and redemption are just a few of the themes that intersect in the most ambitious (and intense) graphic novel of Windsor-Smith's career. No library descriptions found. |
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