With Vol2 of Kaijumax, Zander Cannon continues his fantastic use of the Kaiju genre to give the necessary distance to examine some uncomfortable truths about modern society. A focus on monsters and a cartoony art style belie a story that focuses on complicated characters struggling with heartbreaking circumstances. If one to write a story about a man struggling to integrate into society after a violent past and time in prison, it may be hard to win over an audiences sympathies due to the way our own baggage and sterotypes don't allow us to thing about things in a wider context. Zander Cannon uses giant monsters to make it over that initial hurdle to allow us to identify with individual characters and their struggles with the negative effects of stereotyping, of violent police policies of PTSD, the list goes on.
While the storytelling is strong enough to enjoy even if this is the first contact you have with giant monster stories, the Kaijumax series is deeply rewarding if you are a fan of Japanese monster movies. The very language and slang the characters speak is in constant reference, many of the monsters clear analogues for classic characters from all the different eras of monster movies and Japanese superhero TV. A stroke of genius of Cannon's part also is the way he continues to draw on other monster traditions as well to flesh out his world. The Japanese style kaiju co-exist with Bigfoot style "Cryptids" and this volume begins to explore Lovecraftian cosmic beasts.
This second volume is a great expansion of a series I hope continues to grow.
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