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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
Last modified on Mon 17 May 2021 07.10 EDT
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
This long-awaited epic makes superhuman strength an unsettling backdrop to family drama
âWindsor-Smith does give us shootouts, stakeouts and chases, but Monsters is more interested in turning back the clock.â Photograph: Barry Windsor-Smith
âWindsor-Smith does give us shootouts, stakeouts and chases, but Monsters is more interested in turning back the clock.â Photograph: Barry Windsor-Smith
Thu 6 May 2021 02.30 EDT
There are epic waits, and thereâs the wait for Barry Windsor-Smithâs new epic. This great, grim 366-page slab of postwar angst began its life as a Hulk story that Windsor-Smith planned for Marvel in 1984. Now, 37 years later, it finally emerges, its striking cover bearing the ruined face of a man, a Stars and Stripes thrust in one ear, his torn lip exposing a cavernous jaw, a tear trickling from one half-open eye. This is Bobby Bailey, the young man at the centre of this forcefully told and thoroughly affecting drama.
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May 06, 2021 13:31 IST
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Hannah John-Kamen is best known for playing the role of the villain Ghost in ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp’
Actor Hannah John-Kamen is best known for playing the role of the villain Ghost in ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp’
Actor Hannah John-Kamen, best known for playing the role of the villain Ghost in “Ant-Man and the Wasp”, has been roped in to star in the long-gestating fantasy reboot of “Red Sonja”.
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