Maybe you grew up reading his Conan the Barbarian comics and thrilled to the vigorous lines of his X-Men titles over the years. Maybe you were delighted by his dreamy, intricate fantasy paintings in the '70s or discovered his work in the Opus retrospective volumes of 1999-2000. Thanksgiving Day 1950 was the day when his father, Tom Banner, a recent and embittered W.W. II veteran, turned on his family for the final irrevocable time.

After leaving Marvel, Windsor-Smith became the creative director and lead artist at Valiant Comics, where he illustrated the company's revival of the 1960s Gold Key Comics character Solar, and created the original characters Archer and Armstrong. He was also the chief designer of the " Unity" crossover storyline. After leaving Valiant in 1993, Windsor-Smith did work through a number of publishers, including co-creating the vampiric character Rune with Chris Ulm, which was published as part of Malibu Comics' Ultraverse. Rune's adventures included a crossover with Conan that Windsor-Smith wrote and illustrated. He also provided art for the WildStorm Productions/ Image Comics storyline " Wildstorm Rising", though he later came to regret that work. He subsequently created an oversized anthology series, Barry Windsor-Smith: Storyteller through Dark Horse Comics, though it was cancelled after nine issues. Academy of Comic Book Arts Awards Best Individual Story Dramatic ("Red Nails," by Roy Thomas and Barry Smith, from Savage Tales #1–3) (nominated) [48] Barry Winsdsor-Smith discussed his July 1984 pitch for a Hulk one-shot story with Comic Book Artist...The Alcoholic: Logan was not a good man before being kidnapped. His military discharge report cites "self-destructive behaviors...resulting from chronic alcohol abuse". He's later seen mixing whiskey and pills. Fan Disservice: Logan is naked throughout most of the story. However, it's used to show his vulnerability and how the project has dehumanized him and is never played for titillation.

Indeed, the making of it has been so long that when I ask him about how he sees his style having evolved over time, he relates the question directly to Monsters: “Well, we all change, of course, and the look of my pencil drawing altered constantly over the course of 30 years. What holds the story together, though, is my storytelling style, which has remained constant throughout the book.” I was never just an illustrator of comics. The credits you see published in the comics are misleading; at minimum I was the co-writer of almost all of my work Barry Windsor-Smith Barry Windsor-Smith's The Freebooters, Young Gods, The ParadoX-Man. Kingston, New York: Windsor-Smith Studio, 1995(?). OCLC 36362038 Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: EVERYONE working for Experiment X is one, with the Professor being the worst of them. Most of the rest of them have a For Science! attitude about the whole horrific affair. Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: How Cornelius is killed by Logan. Except not. It was All Just a Dream.

Humans Are the Real Monsters: The story may be told from the perspective of seemingly ordinary scientists who think of themselves as pioneers trying to break new ground while controlling a monster who Was Once a Man, but it's clear from the start that they are the monsters of the story, with Logan just being the poor bastard victim who happened to fit their criteria.

Barry Windsor-Smith would later be feted for his X-Men work, particularly writing and drawing the 1991 Weapon X story that showed the origins of Wolverine's adamantium skeleton, and was the basis for the X-Men 2 movie, as well as X-Men comics Lifedeath and Lifedeath II with Chris Claremont, and the 1984 Machine Man limited series with Herb Trimpe and Tom DeFalco that launched Iron Man 2020. Monsters by Barry Windsor-Smith Together with the X-Men spin-off Excalibur (#27, September 1990), Windsor-Smith's last work for Marvel Comics came with the serialized " Weapon X" feature in Marvel Comics Presents #72–84 (1991), [27] his telling of the origin of the X-Men character Wolverine which he wrote, drew, inked, colored, and co-lettered. In late 1991, he was approached by Valiant Comics, a new comics publisher founded by former Marvel Comics writer and editor-in-chief Jim Shooter, and asked to act as their creative director and lead artist. Valiant had obtained a number of characters originally published in the 1960s and 1970s by Gold Key Comics: Magnus Robot Fighter, Doctor Solar and Turok Dinosaur Hunter, and added their own original titles to the roster, including Harbinger, X-O Manowar, Shadowman, Archer and Armstrong, Eternal Warrior, Bloodshot, Ninjak, and Rai. [28] Was Once a Man: Name dropped by Dr. Cornelius after getting a good look at what they have turned Logan into.Logan's claws seem to be made entirely of metal here and are an accidental product of the initial bonding process mistakenly pumping too much metal into his forearms and wrists. Somehow. It's later established that Logan had bone claws all along, and the process just bound the metal to them like it did to all his other bones. Apparently, the project never bothered to give their subject an x-ray before injecting him with metal.