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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. More than a re-telling of Frankenstein; I personally wasn't satisfied by the supernatural "happy" ending. ( ) Big book. If only it were as good as it is heavy . . . A weird but ultimately boring mash-up of Captain America, the Hulk, The Shining, and domestic tragedy begins with an army recruiter in the 1960s delivering up a prospective candidate for a dubious super-soldier program. The first psychological sidetrack dumps us into the recruiter's mental breakdown as he struggles with his guilty conscience. Then a giant, powerful subject of the program escapes and we're dumped into a second psychological sidetrack as events flash back to 1949 and the diary of the behemoth's mother. She recounts how her husband has come back from the war different and dangerous, but it takes forever to actually reach the horrible moments of violence we are told about upfront. Surely, now we're ready for the big finale? But no, now we must flash back to the final days of the Allied invasion of Germany to find out the bizarre and grotesque events that are the roots of all that has come before. By the time we finally reach a conclusion the story is so full of forced coincidences that the author feels compelled to mention "fate" and "destiny" to make excuses for the ridiculousness. I've enjoyed Barry Windsor-Smith's work in the past, but this one unfortunately left me cold and bored. p.s., The history of how this book came to be is actually more interesting to me than the book. It probably would have been awesome at 30 pages and me still in my teens: https://bleedingcool.com/comics/multiple-publisher-disorder-history-barry-windso... Monsters is a tour-de-force by Barry Windsor-Smith. This is book in which BWS has worked on for years and he put emphasis on both Graphic and Novel portions. It shows a guy that enters a military experience for the production of a Super-Soldier, in a story that traces back to WWII and has unexpected mystical elements. BWS's art is at his top, but it loses some steam in the last part of book, but it is still a great book. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Barry Windsor-Smith verstrengelt in deze graphic novel het leven van twee generaties van twee Amerikaanse families die met elkaar verbonden zijn door een onvoltooid naziproject voor genetische manipulatie dat in de jaren 1960 wordt voortgezet door de Amerikaanse regering. Het verhaal is zowel een familiedrama en een spionagethriller als een politieke odyssee en een intiem portret van individuen die hun leven weer in orde proberen te krijgen. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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