The Monolith

by Jimmy Palmiotti, Justin Gray, Phil Windslade (Artist)

Overview

• In The Monolith, we are introduced to Alice Cohen, a down-and-out ex-junkie who inherits a house in Brooklyn from her deceased grandmother. Alice discovers her diary and begins to read the tale of a lost love and revenge that begins in the factories of New York during the depression and shows the creation of a monster bent on revenge for the slaying of a good honest man.

• Originally published by DC comics, but collected here for the first time, The Monolith features an introduction by the legendary Jim Steranko and the amazing art of Phil Winslade.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781607065746
Publisher:	Image Comics
Publication date:	08/07/2012
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	8.30(w) x 12.30(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	13 - 16 Years

Editorial Reviews

Following a coordinated fan effort to bring back a collection of the 2004 periodical series, Palmiotti and Gray have rereleased the full tale of their monstrous hero: a golem. Created in the 1930s, the Monolith was meant to bring an end to the mobsters responsible for deaths of people just trying to get by. In 2004, a teen addict and former drug dealer named Alice inherits the home where the Monolith has become a prisoner, too dangerous to control. Pursued by a drug dealer she is in debt to, Alice must decide who is worse: the monster in her basement or the monsters in human form. Alice is a bristly protagonist, but her movement toward redemption makes her sympathetic enough to carry the story of a golem with few words of his own. And despite the modern draw, the sections that take place in the 1930s, told through the diary of Alice’s grandmother, have the most appeal. Palmiotti and Gray create dark visions of life in crime-ridden 2004 (which already seems far in the past) and 1932, with Winslade’s art entrancingly capturing the tone, putting poignant moments side-by-side with graphic violence. (Aug.)

Publishers Weekly