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Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN num: 9781934506493
ISBN number: 1934506494
Label: BOOM! Studios
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Page Count: 112
Printing Date: September 23, 2008
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A war is brewing as the Dreamlands is in upheaval and Mister Arkham plots his strategy on Earth. With only mankind standing in the way of a godwar, players and pawns move into place, choose new allegiances, and struggle with their role in Mister Arkham's plans for universal domination. Who will survive? Secrets are revealed as the subsequent chapter in the war of Lovecraftian gods continues! Collecting issues 6-10 of the critically acclaimed ongoing series!
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Fall of Cthulhu is one of my favorite comic series. It is indeed creepy and a little unnerving, and makes pretty good usage of the gods in the Lovecraftian pantheon. Although The Gathering wasn't as good as The Fugue, I'd still recommended it to anyone interested in horror or dark fantasy, and highly recommended it to any Lovecraft fan.
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This graphic novel compiles issues #6-10 of Boom Studios' masterpiece, Fall of Cthulhu. I collected them in comic book form, but this is more convenient for the casual reader.
Fall of Cthulhu #6, Boom Studios, Sep 2007 - written by Michael Alan Nelson, art by Greg Scott, colors by Joel Seguin, cover B Tyler Walpole, cover A Vatchie Malian - The very first 5 issues of Fall of Cthulhu were subtitled The Fugue. They made for a very tight story arc as we learned about Nyarlathotep's scheme to provide Cthulhu as a quarry for Nodens. These subsequent 5 issues are subtitled The Gathering, as Nyarlathotep gathers allies and servitors. Each issue is a more self contained story, and in general I found the very first 5 issues more compelling, although some of these issues were very good. For example, this one! Fortunately, with a single writer there remains a unity of purpose to the story. In the frozen arctic a group of men are searching for something. The man who hired these workers is very creepy and appears to be looking for an old shipwreck lost in the ice. Turns out he's Connor, who's working for Mr. Arkham, searching for the wreck of the Comorant. They eventually find the ship. There are frozen bodies on the ship, which was lost in 1907. Connor is looking for a trunk. From the captain's journal, it turns out the crew was hoping to sink the trunk into the Atlantic when they were caught in the ice. Fast forward 3 months...Connor is the only one who made it back and he's trying to pick up a girl in a bar, saying the trunk had an artifact from Atlantis. She goes up to his room and he offers her a look inside the chest...This was a very good issue with excellent art and a tightly written story that built up tension all the way to the end.
Fall of Cthulhu #7, Boom Studios, Oct 2007 - written by Michael
Alan Nelson, art by Marco Rudy, colors by Marc Rueda, cover B Patrick McEvoy, cover A Vatchie Malian - A little boy runs into a comic book store on his birthday, allowed to get 7 comics by his mother. It turns out the shopkeeper is Sysyphyx, Mr. Arkham's pet demon from last issue. She offers him super powers but he can't tell his parents. All he has to do is open her present when he's alone. After he does this, he understands what he has to do to be able to fly. Somehow he gradually changes from a sweet natured boy into a cruel and aggressive bully, cutting the heads off of dolls. He keeps repeating `knee first, head second.' Eventually he shows his father what he means. His mother is distraught and runs away seeking help. Fortuitously, Mr. Arkham and Sysyphyx are there when she is most desperate. This issue was quite good, absorbing with a truly horrific story and excellent art. I think it may have been my favorite in the current 5 issue story arc.
Fall of Cthulhu #8, Boom Studios, Nov 2007 - writer Michael Alan Nelson, art byTim Hamilton and Michael Fiffe, colors by Marc Rueda, cover B Patrick McEvoy, cover A Vatchie Malian - Mr. Arkham and Connor are in his study, with Mr. Arkham persuading Connor to do something he wished to avoid. He gives Connor a sedative of sorts. Connor finds himself in the Dreamlands, if not quite by the route he imagined. Connor meets a priest who helps empty him of his soul. He is to be the `Vessel of Gith.` Connor then has an interlude with the Harlot. Here there was the very first real problem with technical matters I have seen in this series. The dialogue balloon for Nyarlathotep on the last panel was just about unreadable. This was the same on all my copies with both covers A and B. Next, Nyarlathotep as the Black Pharoah assists Connor in his transformation. I continue to enjoy Mr. Nelson's writing in this issue; it was suspenseful and well thought out. I was less impressed by the art in this comic than the previous ones but it was still pretty good, particularly the Black Pharoah. All in all, a very enjoyable book.
Fall of Cthulhu #9, Boom Studios, Dec 2007 - writer Michael Alan Nelson, art and colors by Pablo Quiligotti, cover A Patrick McEvoy, cover B Vatchie Malian - For me this issue was the very first misfire of the whole series. I just did not care for it. A little girl does not speak (as far as we know) and has no face of her own (as far as we know), and she dances through the Dreamlands cavorting with the monsters and humans there, while slowly answering Mr. Arkham's summons to the waking world. She wears different grotesque masks depending on her mood. Her internal dialogue is delivered mostly in a sing-songy rhyme. The issue ends when she reaches Mr. Arkham's boarding house. The story wasn't bad, although not much happened but I didn't like the rhyme bits and I found the art less attractive than in the previous issues. It was more tolerable the second time through a few days later.
Fall of Cthulhu #10, Boom Studios, Feb 2008 - written by Michael Alan Nelson, art by Pablo E. Quiligotti, ... Read More
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