hp lovecraft at the mountains of madness manga

The biggest issue may be that Culbard leans pretty heavily on dialogical and narrative-bubble exposition across the entire tale’s expanse. I lean toward Lovecraft because 1) he’s dead and won’t have his feelings hurt, and 2) the opening to the original At the Mountains of Madness wasn’t that encouraging on its own. The book has its up-sides for sure, but I’ll hem and haw about where it went wrong for me before I get to the good stuff.īecause I found the original so distancing and tedious that I couldn’t finish it, I don’t have any viable apparatus to judge whether to blame Culbard or Lovecraft for what I feel went wrong here. Culbard’s attractive illustrations took me through a story that, while involving fascinating concepts, was actually pretty dull. At the least, I knew I could finish the story this time.Īnd I did. I loved Culbard’s work adapting the Holmes mythos with Ian Edginton and thumbed appreciatively through his work in Princess of Mars last time I was in an actual, physical bookstore (sadly, only window shopping). With my previously abortive attempt to read “At the Mountains of Madness,” I was pretty excited when I discovered that INJ Culbard had adapted the story into the comics medium.

Because of that game (which, sidenote, is really pretty fun), I can give a knowing nod of recognition when someone namedrops Cthulhu or Shoggoths or even Shub-Nigguroth the Black Goat of the Woods. My other point of entry is the boardgame, Arkham Horror, which is set in Lovecraft’s fictional stomping ground and employs his creatures and mythos. And since I loved his monsters and elder gods and tentacle-beasts, I decided that I liked whoever was the influential genesis for these creations. I know he hasn’t adapted the Cthulhu mythos but I had read that his cosmic monstrosites have been described as Lovecraftian. What then are my points of contact with the author’s worlds? Through Mignola’s Hellboy universe, first of all. It was too slow, too dry, too far-removed to keep my interest. I gave At the Mountains of Madness a shot several years ago when I downloaded it for free for my old-gen Kindle. Fact: I have never finished anything Lovecraft wrote. Real fans of the author would almost certainly consider me a dilettante-a lipstick Lovecraftian, if you will.

Hp lovecraft at the mountains of madness manga