L’éditeur Boom! Studios continue de développer, sur papier, l’univers des Monstres et Merveilles (The Storyteller en version originale) inventé par le maitre marionnettiste Jim Henson.
Après les sorcières et les dragons, c’est au tour des géants d’être croqués par différents artistes le temps d’une mini-série en quatre numéros.
L’artiste Conor Nolan lance les hostilités avec sa réinterprétation du conte japonais Momotaro, l’enfant né dans une pêche.
Description: A collection of mythic tales of when giants roamed the Earth, inspired by folklore from around the world and told in the spirit of Jim Henson’s beloved television series. In this first issue, Conor Nolan reimagines the"The Peach’s Son," a Japanese tale of a giant who was raised by humans but never accepted by them. When a nearby village is overrun with evil beings, the giant will take a chance to be a hero and prove himself to be part of the community he calls home.
Description: Brandon Dayton, creator of one of Yalsa’s 2008 Top Ten Teen Graphic Novels The Green Monk, combines folklore from Russia, Norway, and France with « The Tailor’s Daughter, » a journey that follows a young woman as she outwits an unruly, cruel giant.
Description: When Pru’s little brother Spoon goes missing, she’ll need the help of a forest spirit to save him from the lair of Ireland’s most fabled supernatural beings: the Fomorian Giants
Description: In the final Giants tale, Feifei Ruan tells the Arabic tale of « The Fisherman and The Giant, » wherein a vengeful king has transformed his people into fish, and a fisherman must work with a giant to release the curse.