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Note: This is a review for both the Lovecraft Anthology, Volume 1 and the Lovecraft Anthology, Volume 2.In these anthologies, various comic writers and artists adapt a few dozen of H.P. Lovecraft’s most famous tales to a graphic format, to me, mostly ineffectually. While a few feature intriguing art styles, most cannot approach the atmosphere or creepiness of the original stories filtered through the reader’s own imagination and thus feel rushed and fragmented. Due to the verbose nature and det...
My thoughts were mostly the same as with volume 1 on this one so I'll just note that this volume includes Pickman’s Model, The Temple, From Beyond, He, The Hound, The Nameless City, The Picture in the House, The Festival and The Statement of Randolph Carter. Full series review here
A wonderful Sunday Morning to you all!Here at the Little book cove, I'm having a very chilled morning. I had a choice, Would I like to go for a meal and late night drinks last night, or chill with a book, what do you think I Chose lol! Last night I finished the second instalment of this.I have to say it's not as good as the first one, the Storyline and plot were a bit off at times But The artwork I cannot fault at all, especially “Steve Pugh's” In fact All the artists and colourists are fantast
This second volume concentrates on some “lesser-acclaimed” works of Lovecraft, and—although doing so is a noble effort—I believe the volume suffers as a result. But, though this volume is not quite as good as its predecessor, it still offers delights to the fan of H.P. Lovecraft who appreciates graphic narrative art.My favorites here are “Pickman’s Model,” “The Hound,” “The Nameless City,” “The Picture in the House,” and “Festival.” Artist Steven Pugh creates for “Pickman’s model an early 20th c...
Fairly similar in style and presentation to the first collection. The art is ok (though I was a little irritated with the portrayal of the WWI U-boat as spacious). No doubt a lot of the eeriness of the short stories is lost in the retelling. I'm not the biggest fan of Lovecraft or weird horror, but I am glad to have at least gotten a taste of these stories.
Volume 2 of The Lovecraft Anthology was far superior to the first. The artistry of the comics themselves reminded me of the work of Dave McKean and the stories that were chosen were of a decidedly more obscure bend. Choosing tales such as The Rats in the Walls was rather inspired, as so much of it could be conveyed through the art rather than the script. The story, actually, appealed to me in comic form when I've never been a fan of it in general. This is a good introduction to H.P. Lovecraft a...
But of course you cannot read the first volume without the second one as honestly the same creativity and imagination that brought the first book has spilled over in this volume too (or is that two).To be honest I think you could apply this to any of Lovecrafts stories or even though of his fellow writers who shared in the mythos - in fact I can think of a number of stories already which I would love to have seen put to this format - I can hope.What I would say is that since they are all differe...
Going into this, I thought I was going to enjoy the stories much more than the actual art, which is usually the case when I read graphic novels. Unfortunately, the Lovecraft tales were rather thin, somewhat repetitive, and--similar to my ongoing pet peeve with much of Philip K. Dick's work--sorely lacking a decent ending. The imagination behind the scenarios is great, but the abrupt non-endings to many of these seem tossed off at best, lazy at worst. Perhaps all of H.P.'s best stories were gathe...
*See my review on the 1st Anthology, which sums up my views on both.*For the second Anthology, I really like the stories, "Pickman's Model," and "The Nameless City," in terms of both art and prose. The second story features one of my least favourite art styles, in the vein of Hellboy, and the story is silly and corny (featuring a fanatical, inexplicably insane German in WWI who really fits more as a hardcorre Nazi in WWII) until the very end, when both art and story satisfy. The rest of the stor...
Well, I liked this volume much more then the first volume. Mainly due to the more realistic artwork. Steve Pugh's work on "Pickman's Model" was incredible and I even thought that the noir look of Adrian Salmon's work on "The Temple" was amazing and claustrophobic with it's colors and angular people representations. I did not think that Warwick Johnson Cadwell's art worked at all on "The Statement of Randolph Carter". Way too cartoony for a story that is suppose to be scary. Matt Timson's work o
This follow up anthology to the first volume of the same name, by the same editor, is an improvement, even though the stories chosen for adaptations are of even lesser known and lesser lauded work of Lovecraft than the first. The art is much improved over the first volume. About half are painterly styles of illustration in dark tones, panels drawn at dramatic angles, in ways very appropriate to the themes and feeling of the original work. Some of the pages are truly beautifully done. The more st...
