Giant monsters exist, everyone knows this since Godzilla and King Kong, but what happens to them once they have been defeated? Zander Cannon gives us the answer in Kaijumax published by Bliss editions.
For those who have not passed through the doors of the penitentiary
You are wrong because Kaijumax is one of the best current series but above all, you have the chance to discover a truly incredible universe. Mythological monsters, gigantic aliens and oversized robots threaten cities around the world. These beings have dominated the Earth for millennia but human beings have found the solution: lock them up on Kaijumax, an island in Oceania reserved for tall prisoners. In volume one, the monster Electrogor has just arrived while he went in search of electricity to feed his two children. He will have to survive between gang rivalries and uranium trafficking but above all seeks to escape to join his isolated children. 
Even if the drawings with round lines and very pop colors may seem childish, this is far from being the case. Zander Cannon, writer, illustrator and colorist, immerses you in a complex and adult tribute to kaijus, these giant Japanese monsters. Indeed, this mixture between films made for children and the violence depicted had fascinated the author. This Japanese influence goes through the vocabulary: each monster has a tokusatsu name given by humans… Many characters come from monster movies: a little boy comes from Ichiro in Godzilla's Revenge, the guardians are inspired by the Ultraman film series. The publisher Bliss also has the good idea to adapt the format of the book and the exterior design to the project: the cover and the slice imitate a Japanese manga magazine. But the author is also inspired by American cartoons Transformers. As in the movies, administrations with wacky names are invented: H.E.R.O.Ï.S.Mr.E. to guard prisons and G.E.N.I.Has.L. for the police. Cannon organizes his series in season as Prison Break.
For those who know Electrogor
You will have the joy of finding some themes. We are always caught up in this prison drama where different racial clans seek to impose themselves in prison through violence, manipulation and trafficking. Giant robots want to impose their religious code on others while prisoners seek to escape with a drug, uranium. Offenders often end badly, but in the margins of the prison, some prisoners create a comfortable place for themselves. Kaijumax is also an ecological parable about the difficulty of reconciling two ways of life between giant monsters and humans.Giant animals just want to feed and men attack without discussion. For lack of space, because of pollution and therefore human pressure, should we park or remove these titans? The author also adds a racial subtext. Some humans preferred expeditious justice before the intervention of the politicians who created the prison. 
But Cannon also expands his universe. Indeed, in volume two, we follow less a single character than a gang war on the prison island between the young Whoofy heir to his father's mafia and competitors wanting to steal the very profitable uranium trafficking. Indeed, Kaijumax is also a story about families. Whoofy is a dweller despised by her mafia father, Monkey-whale who has changed a lot thanks to a human child appear. You will even discover the women's prison. Dr. Zhang, the prison doctor, who had a relationship with an inmate finds herself in the midst of uranium addicts, scammers and Lovecraftian horrors. Like the first volume, Kaijumax is a real trap. If you flip through the book, you can believe by the drawing that it is a joyful tale about monsters and prison. But, once you read the first chapter, you are totally addicted to this dark world and especially to these strong and deeply human characters even if they look like monsters. This series is one of the unmissable to bring on vacation while waiting for the third and last volume. If you are interested in the stories of giants, you can discover the chronicle on Big Girls and on a giant of French music, Michel Magne.
