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Windsor-Smith's novel has the feeling of an instant classic - a novel later in the author's life where he is trying to say it all. (Much like Brother Karazmozov was to Dostoyevski). Indeed, in an interview with the author, he said he had been writing Monster for over 30 years.

I first thought the novel was going to be a dark version of the Captain America super soldier story. Or a take Frankenstein (Prometheus serves as the name for the secret project in Monsters and the subtitle of Frankenstein). Monsters has elements of those two work on its focus of how what we create says the creator. Yet focus� less on the titular monster created by a botch super soldier experiment than the monsters the lie with so many of us -the darkness that is inherently there that can be set off by others. Although there is true love and unselfishness, the monsters fate is poignant. So this is not a depressing book. Through he large format - both page size and number - allow Windsor-Smith to develop he story and character slowly. I can’t recall another graphic novel with pages of dialogue. The way time moves helps show the interconnected nature of the stories.