3 Story: The Secret History of the Giant Man

[AnnDViant]

I found this comic this week (saw it in a shop, but couldn’t take it with me where I was, so put in an online order for delivery - so sadly I haven’t read it yet). It sounds positively delightful - the life story of a boy who simply doesn’t stop growing, and soon becomes the world-famous Giant Man. From what I can tell, it’s also a love story (“falls in love at 7 feet,” I saw), so very excited for that!

Was first published in 2009 and republished in 2018 so it’s very likely some of you are already familiar with this, but it was a wonderful discovery for me. Keen to get my hands on it when it arrives!

[Nyx]

@AnnDViant I enjoyed it…the comic had more of a realistic approach to the idea of a giant person and it explored the downsides, including the sense of isolation that would come from being huge.

[littlest-lily]

@Nyx This looks interesting! I’m curious to know just how big he gets? If it’s closer to that 7ft mark ish, vs on the cover it looking like skyscrapers are tiny to him.

[Nyx]

@littlest-lily He does become giant-sized so the title is appropriate. I’ve noticed that a lot of macro-content is inconsistent when it comes to size, though. One minute a giant character looks like they’re twenty feet tall; the next, they look like they’re seventy feet.

[i am insane]

@Nyx
Consistency like that is hard when we don’t have any good context for that in real life; even big animals are on all fours or the like. Artists, or hell, writers, don’t have a frame of reference for, ‘this is fifty feet tall, here’s what all the smaller bits would be’.

Even small it’s difficult, and at least then there’s stuff like Barbie to give a vague idea, but giant? Nothing.

[AnnDViant]

@littlest-lily He grows to be 3 storeys tall! Thus the title. What I saw was that he meets his love when he’s only 7ft, then keeps growing over the course of his adulthood.