![]() Barry Windsor-Smith's Monsters is now scheduled for January 19th, 2021 and is 380 pages long. It was hoped something similar could be achieved with Monster. What was originally a 22-page story was now over 270 pagesįantagraphics published his similarly-withdrawn X-Men story, Lifedeath III as the Storyteller spinoff, Adastra In Africa. ![]() However, that project failed as Karen Berger and Paul Levitz refusing to allow Windsor-Smith to use certain vulgarities in the comic, and a now-planned use of the c-word was too far for DC then (though commonplace in Hellblazer now). ![]() He took the projects to DC Comics, where it would have been recreated with new characters as a graphic novel, Monster. First to Dark Horse Comics where it would have been called Big Red, but he fell out with publisher Mike Richardson over the Storyteller series. Expanding upon the original idea, with his own concepts of three externalised figures, Guardian, Goblin and Glow, representing Freudian aspects of the Hulk and Banner's mind, conjured up by the Crossroads world around him.īarry Windsor-Smith pulled his Hulk story in protest and began to rework it for other publication plans. Knowing the story existed, presuming it would be published by the time his issue was out, and referring to it when writing his own. But talking to industry figures, the consensus seems to be that Mantlo didn't steal it, but was referring to it. ![]() Some state that Mantlo simply stole the idea, and that seems to have been Windsor-Smith's interpretation. ![]()
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