The story is simply Wolverine being experimented on and tortured by a shadowy government agency. Monsters is his first published work since 2005, but its reach of history evokes Windsor-Smith’s potentially most famous work, the Wolverine “origin” story Weapon X.Ī straightforward synopsis of Weapon X doesn’t do it justice. Windsor-Smith is an industry titan, who always felt uncomfortable with the mistreatment and constraints imposed upon comics artisans like himself. All the while, the original 22-page story was mutating into the 370-page behemoth it is today, its scope and Gothic agony overflowing. Clashes with Marvel made him move the project to Dark Horse, and then to DC, before it eventually found its publisher with Fantagraphics (and Jonathan Cape in the UK). Barry Windsor-Smith planned his macabre epic as a Hulk story, way back in 1984. Much like the abused test-subject at its centre, Monsters is years in the making.
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