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Welcome back to There She Grows! Today’s review of “Giantess Containment Bureau” was requested in late February by an individual who wanted to stay anonymous. Thus, without further ado, let’s begin.
Giantess Containment Bureau first appeared on September 3rd, 2012, and ran for a total of eight issues, concluding on February 28th, 2014. The creative team consisted of Malenkaya as the author, Peter Logan (a.k.a. Mariano Navarro) as the artist and inker, and Chris Flash (a.k.a. Hernán Cabrera) as the colorist and letterer.
Malenkaya has written several stories for Botcomics including, but not limited to, “Grow Cookies,” “Peak Shift,” and “Red Pill: Legalized.”
(NOTE: This review will only cover the original series. However, a sequel by new author Bacchus, Giantess Containment Bureau: Next Generation, was launched in late May 2019 and finished in late January 2023. Comment below if you’d like a review of the newer series.)
This series was initially focused on Solomon and Uriko, two field operatives working for the Giantess Containment Bureau (GCB). They operate in what appears to be a post-apocalyptic world where numerous women have been transformed into feral giantesses. The transformation is caused by a virus and infection can be prevented with a vaccine. However, because she hadn’t taken the last round of vaccine, Uriko was infected and rapidly transformed. (SIDE NOTE: I’m just now realizing that it was probably a mistake to send a female agent who could potentially be infected when males were immune.)
Additional characters join the roster including Agent Julian Cortez and Rebecca Huxley, a giantess who retained her intellect and thus became the first to work for the GCB. Her father, Dr. Huxley, conducted tests and developed collars in the mining town of Barro which were used to control some giantesses and grant them a measure of control.
That’s all that will be mentioned about the plot to avoid sharing spoilers. Suffice to note that this comic provided a full and complete narrative, including many sex scenes. Good stuff!
Regarding the artwork for this series, long-time Giantess Club fans are already familiar with the drawings produced by Portal Comics (the duo of Navarro and Cabrera). They have made many comics for Giantess Club and for Botcomics as a whole. Personally, I enjoy their efforts and think they’re skilled at depicting curvy giantesses.
Perhaps the biggest problem was that a few story details should been smoothed out. For instance, the fact that field operatives Uriko and Cortez wore business suits while operating in the field was unexpected. There’s a reason hikers don’t wear suits when traversing difficult terrain and neither do athletes when competing. Formal attire was designed to look good, not to permit a full range of motion or to hold extra ammunition.
Technically, it is not impossible to wear a suit coat, slacks, and a tie while engaged in deadly fighting. However, that type of clothing would make combat and field operations in general more difficult. When fictional MI6 Agent James Bond, a.k.a. 007, wore a suit it was because he needed to look like a businessman, wanted to infiltrate a casino without raising suspicions, or seduce a source. However, there was no need to mimic a businessman or seduce anyone in GCB. The giantesses were thought to be mindless so dealing with them was like hunting wild game. I don’t know anyone who wears a suit while hunting.
There was also a few questions raised by the dialogue. In one example, La Monte, the boss of the mining town asked a GCB agent in Chapter 2 if they were looking for an energy supplier. Um, why? Did his people mine energy? Like raw energy? Like a miner goes into the mine and brings back electricity, heat, or light, that they … uh … dug out of the ground? Burning coal generates heat so maybe that was merely his way to describe coal shipments. Alternatively, does this series take place in the Transformers universe and therefore they mine Energon cubes? To be clear, this dialogue was not important to the narrative and thus I am probably the only one who will raise a wondering eyebrow.
Additionally, there were a few spelling errors. None were egregious, but given that this is primarily a visual work it was disappointing that errors were still present despite the small amount of text. Put another way, it should have been easy to review and correct errors when there were only a few words to check. However, none of the errors prevented understanding an event or derailed the plot. Presumably, the lack of an editor or reviewer led to this problem.
Overall, the positives greatly outweighed the negatives. Giantess Containment Bureau is strongly recommended. You can find it at Botcomics by clicking here.
That’s it for today folks. Next week’s review will be a tribute to film maker Bert I. Gordon, a.k.a. Mr. B.I.G. Until then, keep growing!
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