Image Comics releases another vigilante comic about a 50 feet tall woman battling against some giant archfiends around the city in Big Girls the graphic novel.

And no, I’m not talking about some chubby or thick girls that you horny bastards are into. I mean a superhero comic where a giant woman is fighting to protect the city from giant archfiends. But if you think this is related to My Hero Academia or Attack of Titan manga series, then no, that’s another story. But this comic is no none other than to be surrounded in a world where humans are becoming into demons by growing a few inches tall. The comic is both written and illustrated by Jason Howard. He’s not much to tell but he’s a “creative force” in comics who created an Image comic series called Super Dinosaur and co-created another title called The Astounding Wolf-Man series, and Trees. I mean from every artist that I’ve researched, I’ve been collecting info so far just to know for cartoonists that were not the only ones are struggling around and to study its art style for essential purposes just so we can learn more about them and ourselves.

First of all, I do like the concept of this front cover art. It shows that the main character poses like she’s standing tall against these demons. From what it’s worth, the designs of those monsters are almost like one of the failed science experiments from Final Fantasy VII. And apparently, they’re growing some big pimples around their bodies which is more disgusting. And the cityscape is just a normal set of perspectives from any other comics that I’ve read, and it almost looks like it took place in New York because there are some of the buildings are like that. The story starts in a city called “The Preserve” which is more fictional to create a city like that. But then the whole city is in crisis because the giants are under attack. For a town like that, the townspeople have some bigger problems with the giants but they called over some special forces that can take care of a giant problem. However, everyone has a different story.

One of the big girls named Ember, she may be a human but no one knows when did she grew to be big, but she’s been protecting the city from monsters from the very start. But what’s more bizarre is that she battles against monsters that resembled men or jacks. I don’t know where all that came from, but I guess this is like the battle of the sexes. However, during the existence of the jacks, there is a mastermind who makes more of those, a woman named Joanna who wants to eliminate the big girls and she’s been making more of those specimen just to make a raid through the city. Ember is not the only one dealing with those monsters, there are more big girls than you can count, and they fought together. But more important is what happened after the battles that they fought which soon becomes a plot twist, Ember seems that she’s been communicating the jacks and seem that these monsters still have a human soul inside of them, not since that she saw the high marshal headshot the big toddler in front of her. And at the end of the comic, Joanna raged an all-out war for the jacks to wreck the city just to destroy the big girls and after that, one of the jacks actually talked to Ember and convinces the monster to not destroy or kill, but who knows where the true threat is, and it’s the high marshall himself who became corrupted and obsessed to destroy the giants, and one of the jacks killed him. After that, the story ends when everyone is rebuilding the city, the humans and the giants are finally getting along together.

The story is interesting in fact, which would make this the modern version of Attack of Titan, except with some normal human soldiers, they’re giants. But what really makes it so bizarre is that the monsters who were attacking the city and innocent people are actually men, which makes no sense of how did they been produced, and the big girls are another story. But they have been battling those monsters from the very start until the main character convinces the monster to stop attacking and prevented the war. The art style is almost similar to Marc Silvestri, but the concept is way more different than seeing women in demon forms and evil creatures. As I said, the way that they designed those monsters and the infected size of men is quite random. And the fact that the big girls are battling the jacks almost makes you take a scene from the power rangers series where the team is fighting one of the biggest monsters by using magic to grow bigger. Also, I do like when the artist poses the women in battle forms, even when they’re fighting the giants, every scene of the comic shows something more serious. A comic that women are battling against men who turned into monsters is a very random thing to witness, but it’s actually something to know the story at least. If you rather want to see a war between humans and monsters, then this is for you.

By Kevin Bermeo

I'm a New Yorker Artist, and I traveled a lot. I enjoy making comics, illustrations, paintings, and digital art. Besides drawing, I'm also a writer, I used to be a Gamer, and I love adventures, food, and dragons.

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