Neither do I see the point of the experimentation. The Nazi scientists horrifically deform their test subjects - to what end? Who wants an oversized, lumbering creature with the mind of a child who can barely walk? Why would any military pour so much money into such a useless end goal?!

Shazam Award, Academy of Comic Book Arts Awards Best Individual Story ("Devil Wings over Shadizar," by Roy Thomas and Barry Smith, from Conan the Barbarian No. 6 and "Tower of the Elephant," by Roy Thomas and Barry Smith, from Conan the Barbarian #4) (nominated) [43] Previous Winners: 1977". Eagle Awards. Archived from the original on 4 April 2012 . Retrieved 9 September 2018. Keith Haring says every audience member is an artist because they create the meaning of a piece of art By Jon Sands In those days, I was on the road a lot, spending time in Europe with the licensees, at our London office, in L.A., or on licensing trips elsewhere. The book went to press without my seeing it. How Al didn’t notice, or someone else didn’t notice, I don’t know. Be Careful What You Wish For: Experiment X wanted to turn Logan into an Implacable Man. They succeeded all too well.Asshole Victim: Logan was a miserable, alcoholic thug before getting kidnapped. Not that it meant he deserved anything close to what gets done to him. At its heart, Monsters is a tender and involved family drama, but it comes dressed in not one but two layers of fantasy: mad Nazi scientists and a supernatural subplot involving ghosts and psychic powers. Intriguingly, one comics expert I spoke to told me that it started life all those years ago as a Hulk story. With its super-powered, lonely monster being pursued by a furious military man, the suggestion sounds very plausible.

a b "Text of Barry Windsor-Smith's Eisner Awards Hall of Fame Acceptance Speech". Comic Book Galaxy. 29 July 2008. Archived from the original on 12 February 2012. Early-Installment Weirdness: With the tendency of future writers to Retcon and add elements and factions to the original project, the story comes off quite differently than it would in future stories: a b Hahn, Joel (ed.). "1974 Academy of Comic Book Arts Awards". Comic Book Awards Almanac. Archived from the original on 22 December 2014 . Retrieved 4 February 2016. Implacable Man: One of the goals of the project is to create one. Logan was already superhumanly tough, but once he gains the Adamantium skeleton, he takes it to a new level. Climaxes when he is shown to survive a bath in molten nuclear waste and just keep coming. Other American Awards". Comic Book Awards Almanac. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015 . Retrieved 4 February 2016.

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Monsters is a graphic novel written, drawn, and inked by Barry Windsor-Smith. It is published by Fantagraphics and was originally released in 2021. Windsor-Smith mounts compelling scenes of Elias cooped up in his basement taking scissors to his collection of Golden Age comics, or Tom plotting violent vengeance on the men who comforted his wife during his war. But these passages are there to take us deeper, to show how the men's dances on the threshold of their minds leave their families at thresholds far more real - abandoned by their breadwinners and traumatized by their behavior, left to the mercy of a society with just this side of nothing to offer them. Slowly, Janet Bailey emerges as Monsters' real main character, a desperate, determined woman dumped into a nightmare no self-sacrifice can stop from playing out. The story is centered most on a pair of families and the other characters that shape their lives. At its center is Bobby Bailey, perhaps the most tragic of all the characters in this book. To tell Bobby’s story, Monsters jumps through time, adeptly doing so in ways that sow a heightened sense of connection between plot points, heightening the story’s significance rather than making it feel excessive, novel, or contrived.

Regarding the style and technique; Barry both wrote and illustrated Monsters. It’s clear that he used his 37 years wisely, as every single piece of every panel is completely necessary. There’s no fluff here.Fan Disservice: Logan is naked throughout most of the story. However, it's used to show his vulnerability and how the project has dehumanized him and is never played for titillation. Academy of Comic Book Arts Awards Best Individual Story Dramatic ("Song of Red Sonja," by Roy Thomas and Barry Smith, from Conan the Barbarian #24) (winner) [45]

Maybe you grew up reading his Conan the Barbarian comics and thrilled to the vigorous lines of his X-Men titles over the years. Maybe you were delighted by his dreamy, intricate fantasy paintings in the '70s or discovered his work in the Opus retrospective volumes of 1999-2000. a b Gravett, Paul (30 April 2021). "Prometheus rebounds: An alternative path for the Incredible Hulk legend in Monsters by Barry Windsor-Smith". The Times Literary Supplement. Archived from the original on 29 April 2021 . Retrieved 29 April 2021. years in the making, the most anticipated graphic novel in recent comics history! 2022 EISNER AWARD WINNER: Monsters reminds us of Nazi “research” (torture) that took place in their attempt to chemically produce a super soldier, the cruelty of this ambition not exclusive to the Nazis, as Americans also did inhumane research, experimentation, testing on human beings.This is basically an anti-war book where Bobby’s dad goes to war, experiences unspeakable cruelty, is driven to madness, and comes home to pass on his madness in rage and violence to his wife, the lovely and innocent Janet Bailey, and especially, his son, Little Bobby. Bobby also goes to war, to become this Frankenstein/Hulk-typer monster. Abuse in war and obsession to win war leads to domestic abuse. Almost unreadable at times. Of course, I know war is Hell and that kids grow up abused in various ways, but it is hard to see this. Windsor-Smith, Barry (2012). "Monsters". Barrywindsor-smith.com. Archived from the original on 27 July 2013.

The first volume provides examples of the following tropes:

Academy of Comic Book Arts Awards Best Individual Story Dramatic ("Red Nails," by Roy Thomas and Barry Smith, from Savage Tales #1–3) (nominated) [48]