As the titular monsters of the title?multiply, becoming real and metaphorical, literal and ironic, the story?reaches its emotional and moral reckoning.Monsters?is the legendary project Barry Windsor-Smith has been?working on for over 35 years. Bailey?s only ally and protector,?Sergeant McFarland, intervenes, which sets off a chain of cascading events?that spin out of everyone?s control. government experimental program, an unholy continuation of?a genetics program that was discovered in Nazi Germany nearly 20 years?earlier in the waning days of World War II. Close-mouthed, damaged, innocent, trying to forget a past and?looking for a future, it turns out that Bailey is the perfect candidate for a?secret U.S. Barry Windsor-Smith’s Monsters is his first attempt at a complete comics story since his Storyteller series for Dark Horse Comics abruptly ended its run in the ninth issue in 1997 and his publication of a reworked X-Men story titled Adastra in Africa in 1999. Bobby Bailey doesn?t realize he is about to fulfill his?tragic destiny when he walks into a US Army recruitment office to join?up. Groth told the assembled crowd of that he had known Barry Windsor-Smith for over 30 years, and during work on Monsters told him that it would be his final book.
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