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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN num: 9781934506196
ISBN number: 1934506192
Label: BOOM! Studios
Manufacturer: BOOM! Studios
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 132
Printing Date: March 11, 2008
Publishing house: BOOM! Studios
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Collecting the opening arc of the new smash-hit series that is taking fandom by storm! Cy is an ordinary guy with a beautiful fiancee -- until his uncle's suicide changes his life forever. Consumed with discovering the motive behind his relative's sudden and painful death, he finds notes and scribblings about a nonsense word he doesn't recognize... Cthulhu. Obsessed, he seeks out answers to questions he should have never asked. A horrifying glimpse into a modern day Lovecraftian world filled with nightmares and excursions into Lovecraft's Dreamlands!
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If you love comics and if you love H.P. Lovecraft, this is it. Fall of Cthulhu had me hooked from page one. The art is really good and it adds to the creepy atmosphere of the story. The story itself is excellent and I guarantee that you will want to read the rest of the series. This one is an easy 5 stars just because I didn't want to stop reading!
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Where Willingham's "Fables" creates a coherent universe for our beloved fairy tale and nursery rhyme characters, Nelson's "Fall of Cthulhu" re-imagines a neoclassic of mythology and creates an enthralling, driving narrative for a modern audience. Fans of the original Cthulhu Mythos Cycle should heartily enjoy this title.
Especially the left one.
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The Fugue comprises the very first 5 issues of Fall of Cthulhu now brought together in a graphic novel. I think it is a smashing sucess and will give most Chtulhu mythos fans as much reading enjoyment as it gave me. I read them as they came out in comic book form but now you don't have to squirm with imaptience between issues!
Fall of Cthulhu #0, Boom Studios, March 2007 - written by Michael Alan Nelson, , art by Jean Dzialowski, colors by Imaginary Friends Studio - In this introductory book to the best Lovecraftian comic book series ever, we are very first treated to a vision of R'lyeh rising. Then we see the final (?) days of Abdul Alhazrad in Damascus 731 AD, as he is swallowed up by some nightmarish demon. He is taken through the Dreamlands (rendered here with much more vivid and surreal panels than our world) to the Nameless City where he is taken to task for the writing of Al Azif. His body is taken by a party unknown to a destination unknown. We then fast forward to the present day when Mr. Arkham and his assistant Conner retrieve the body from a swamp. Alhazrad must be revived to write a new chapter of Al Azif. Wonderful stuff here! I was hooked from the very first panel.
Fall of Cthulhu #1, Boom Studios, Apr 2007 - written by Michael Alan Nelson, art by Jean Dzialowski, colors by Imaginary Friends Studio, cover A Tyler Walpole, cover B Vatchie Malian - The story begins with Cy Morgan having lunch with his fiancé Jordan at some outdoor café in Arkham. They are interrupted by a bag being thrown onto their table, as it happens by Cy's uncle Walter McKinley who looks much the worse for wear. He proceeds to blow his brains out all over the table. Cy is given that bag by the police, almost as an after thought. Uncle Walt had been doing research in Brazil but returned 2 months early for some reason. The bag contains research materials (a draft of a thesis about `The Call') and a rather eldritch looking knife that doesn't seem to want to stay put away. Cy can't get hold of his sister Sarah to tell her, and Uncle Walt's apartment is empty. Later that night, in a dream Cy is confronted by his uncle, and ends up following him into the Dreamlands. There he meets an grotesque entity known as the Harlot, a giver and keeper of secrets, from whom he tries to find out more about his Uncle Walt. It turns out Walt was staying at Mr. Arkham's boarding house, and keeping a very bizarre idol in a closet. After you read this comic you will not be able to pass up any of the rest that follow, it is that good. It is much more entertaining than most of the mythos short stories I read.
Fall of Cthulhu #2, Boom Studios,May 2007, - written by Michael Alan Nelson, art by Jean Dzialowski, colors by Imaginary Friends Studio, cover A Tyler Walpole, cover B Vatchie Malian - Jordan and Cy have a small argument after Walt's funeral, particularly after Cy apparently keeps forgetting to put away the knife. The idol had the word Cthulhu written on the base, which it turns out was the password to Walt's thumbdrive. The drive contained images of a book in Arabic, which Cy will now endeavor to have translated by a friend, Brad Fagen. When Walt goes back to the boarding house, he finds the priest from the funeral in front of the idol, naked and tattooed and cutting himself to pieces. Apparently Mr. Arkham is up to something, as he seems to have staged all this for Cy's benefit. Reality is now seriously starting to fray, as Cy didn't put the knife away again, so he has a fight with Jordan, and when he goes to see his friend Brad who was translating the Arabic writing he has been maimed in a most horrible way. While there is something weird going on outside the hospital, Cy and Jordan's apartment was ransacked. That night, Cy ends up back in the Dreamlands where he sees a great hunter from a distance. The Harlot tells him it is Nodens, and offers to explains about the Call of Cthulhu...but all secrets have their price. Another corking good read with a compelling story, excellent mythos sensibilities and terrific art.
Fall of Cthulhu #3, Boom Studios, Jun 2007, - written by Michael Alan Nelson, art by Jean Dzialowski, colors by Imaginary Friends Studio, cover B Tyler Walpole, cover A Vatchie Malian - The police are investigating the apartment break in and are suspicious of Cy. Unfortunately he and Jordan are fighting over his pursuing his uncle's affairs...plus he keeps forgetting to put away that knife. Not knowing what to do Cy stops for a chat with the reassuring Mr. Arkham. On the way home he discovers to his dismay that the priest from the funeral apparently was not a priest at all. Jordan threatens to leave Cy. Getting to end of his tether Cy slips into the Dreamlands again. There he offers a piece of himself to the Harlot to try to make some sense of what's been happening. She gives him a rather cryptic answer. When he awakens Cy is witness to a gruesome hunt, ... Read More
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Anyone who knows me knows that I read comics. Alot of comics. I'll pick up two or three books a week. But this one, Fall of Cthulhu, is the one of the ones I get most excited about every month.
Although Michael Alan Nelson has added much of his own the Cthulhu Mythos, its barely noticeable, it fits in so well. The little references and such to various Lovecraft stories are everywhere. And the art, especially when it switches styles for the Dreamlands sequences, is astounding and creepy.
This is also a great place to start if you are just getting into Lovecraft.
I highly recommend this book to every fan of Lovecrat, horror comics, and all those in between.
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I usually get a little leery about fan fiction such as this. Fall of Cthulhu: The Fugue is really good, though. It is a bit disturbing, and it leaves out the bits that it should leave out to make truly good piece of "Lovecraftian" fiction. All fof the basic principles are there: 1. a person finds a magical item that is not necessarily good, 2. there is a hero's quest gone quite wrong, 3. there is a healthy dose of madness, 4. There in interaction with beings on different planes of existence, etc. If you are a Lovecraft fan, and like the fan fiction that surrounds his work, you will love this. If you are a fan like me--one that has been disappointed with fan fiction in general--this is a refreshing (weird word choice, I know) piece of good storytelling and good artwork: Well-written, well-drawn, well-done.
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