Famed comics artist Barry Windsor-Smith — known for his work on Weapon X and Conan — spent 35 years bringing his magnum opus to life. In many ways, Monsters recalls his superhero work. A young man, viciously abused as a child, tries to enlist in the army only to be subjected to body horror experiments in an effort to transform him into a super human soldier. That's where the parallels end, however. Monsters is a much richer and more ambitous story, and while Windsor-Smith's storytelling falls back on some of the tropes familiar to superhero comics, Monsters isn't exhilarating or cathartic, as much as it is claustrophobic and tragic.