Reggie vs. Kaiju Storm Chimera Wolf

If there's a common theme to most great, classic monster stories, it's that they're never really about monsters, but are more about using those monsters as a metaphor for something: whether it's Victorian attitudes towards sexuality in Dracula, Japanese filmmakers dealing with the repercussions of the atomic bomb droppings through Godzilla, or zombies being used to illustrate the underside of consumer culture.

Selznick gets that, which is a lot of what makes this chapbook such a good read. Yes, there's a giant monster, and a military determined to stop it, but really it's a story about regret over failed relationships. The monsters are only window dressing. My only complaint was that it was too short! Selznick hints at a much larger universe here, and I'd like to see him do some more with it.