A panel from Monsters by Barry Windsor-Smith. Photograph: Jonathan Cape
A panel from Monsters by Barry Windsor-Smith. Photograph: Jonathan Cape
Wed 12 May 2021 10.01 EDT
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H
ow long would you wait for a comic? My 10-year-old son, staking out the letterbox (âDad! My Beano still hasnât arrived!â) has a limit of about 48 hours. I want to say to him: âTwo days? Try 35 years!â For that is how long the world has waited for Barry Windsor-Smithâs new graphic novel, Monsters.
In an industry that has, for most of its history, been dominated by fast art and on-the-hoof storytelling, owing to the ferocious pace of weekly production, to call Monsters an outlier would be an understatement. The reason that anyone is prepared to wait that long for it is the 71-year-old behind it. Before Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Mark Millar, Dave McKean, Warren Ellis, Glenn Fabry, Steve Dillon, Grant Morrison, Dave Gibbons and all the other
We’re all familiar with the stereotypical conception of the librarian as a person often a woman of a certain age carrying a massive pile of books, eyeing you with suspicion over reading glasses before sternly shushing you. Nowadays there’s not as much need for shushing, as libraries are much louder and livelier than they used to be budget cuts have spurred interest in community programming, and public computers combined with printers have raised the volume on average. It’s more likely that a librarian will give you the stink eye you for not being careful with your coffee while sitting at a computer.
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The most unlikely of patrons hires Bandette, the greatest thief in the world, to pilfer a painting whose brushstrokes hold centuries of hidden messages! Unfortunately, a series of felonious rivals contrive to snatch the art for themselves! Bandette and her adversaries utilize skill, romance, and murderous intent, as the canvas passes from larcenous hand to hand as they each struggle to possess . . . THE SIX FINGER SECRET!
Beasts of Burden: Occupied Territory #2 (of 4)
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Over 650 pages of samurai battles and bitter rivalries! A young survivor’s seemingly immortal protector, Manji, is helping her destroy the eccentric, bloodthirsty Itto-ryu sword school. While Manji has his hands full with a trio of devious assassins, Rin decides to make her way across Edo in a solo search for the murderous Anotsu Kagehisa!
Blumhouse Productions’ 2017 Halloween offering has a pretty unbeatable premise:
Groundhog Day crossed with a slasher film, in which co-ed Tree (short for Theresa) is endlessly chased and killed by a psycho with a knife wearing a nightmare-fodder cartoon baby mask on her birthday. Every time she gets murdered, she wakes up on her birthday again.
Happy Death Day refreshes the time loop premise by making the archetype who would usually bite the dust early in the movie that is, the clueless sorority girl self-aware and active in her own fate; as she retains memories of the previous days, she’s able to begin anticipating the killer’s approach to try and evade her own murder. As Tree learns to pay attention to her sorority sisters and the sweet underclassman trying to help her stay alive, as she investigates red herrings and reconciles with estranged family on what is already an emotional bulldozer of a day, she slowly transforms herself into a Final Girl.