![]() Recruiter Sergeant McFarland discovers the lad has no identity papers and ‘ no home. His mother tries to protect him.Ĭut to Los Angeles, California, Wednesday, 22 April, 1964 and Bobby Bailey is trying to join the U.S. The opening pages show a terrible event where a boy loses an eye, perhaps in a cycling accident, perhaps by other means. Like many modern films, the book aims for realism by giving exact dates and places for the events. It starts back in World War II but, for the reader, begins in Saturday, 11 June 1949, at the Bailey home in Providence Township, Ohio. Army and there’s a cameo by one Captain Talbot but this is not a Hulk story. For good measure, he’s relentlessly pursued by Major Roth of the U.S. ![]() ![]() There are several monsters in the story but the principal victim, not a monster, bears a strong resemblance to Bruce Banner’s alter-ego. Such is the case with ‘ Monsters’ by Barry Windsor-Smith, which began life as a story for Marvel’s Incredible Hulk character but evolved. When you read that a book has been thirty-five years in the making, it gives you high expectations. ![]()
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