A competent work in a clean line european graphic style reminiscent of the great Edgar P. Jacobs and his masterpiece works Blake And Mortimer (also available in english). The use of monochrome and sepia colors gives the art its aged look creating an atmosphere similar to old black and white science-fiction movies of the 1930s and 1940s, and providing a classic feel to the setting of H.P. Lovecraft's masterwork.This style may not please everyone however since it can feel cold (pardon the pun) and...

http://nwhyte.livejournal.com/1874607...this takes Lovecraft's classic novella and puts it into a stark graphic novel adaptation, beautifully suited to the tale. The original story is a masterpiece of horror, ratcheting up the tension and dread with each sentence; Culbard's adaptation must play with the text a little, but keeps many of the best lines. The drawing style is generally restrained, which makes the one or two moments of horrific revelation (particularly the gruesome fate of the advanc...

Cool story. Loved that the Cthulhu is mentioned in this story. I have been dying to know what the heck they were. Great illustrations. Nice big panels and color palette.This is the story of an expedition to Antarctica. The team has reached their destination and one scientist, Professor Lake the biologist, takes a team of men to scour the mountains for artifacts. That is when the weirdness happens. Professor Lake and team discover a lifeform. They presume they are dead and take them to their camp...

2.5 StarsLovecraft's famous tale of horror comes alive in these pages, albeit not perfectly. Frankly, I was curious to see how someone can adapt a story as complex as At the Mountains of Madness into a graphic novel. The original story lacked conversations and solid interactions, thanks to Lovecraft's mad writing skills! “We might have known from the first that human curiosity is undying, and that the results we announced would be enough to spear others ahead on the same age-long pursuit of the...

You can't judge a book by its cover, but you should be able to with a graphic novel. At least a bit.The cover art on this comic-book retelling of the H.P. Lovecraft tale is a little on the bleak arty side, ambiguous and atmospheric. The art on the inside, however, is completely different: it looks like it was taken from an adventure story published in a 1951 issue of Boy's Life Magazine.On the upside, we are spared all of Lovecraft's florid faux-Poe exposition and scene setting, on the downside

Many thanks to Self Made Hero for sending me a copy in exchange for an honest review3.5 stars! So, what's this book about? September 1930. A scientific expedition embarks for the frozen wasteland of Antarctica. But the secrets they unearth there reveal a past almost beyond human comprehension - and a future too terrible to imagine. By taking scientific fact so seriously, At the Mountains of Madness(1936), H.P Lovecraft's classic take on the "heroic age" of polar exploration, helped to define a...

SpoilersPretty good. I've never read a novel set in the Antarctic so that was kind of interesting. The mystery was fairly engaging but it wasn't all that original — science team goes on expedition, weird rocks are found, discovery of a lost city, people dying, nothing is as it seems blah blah blah. The characters personalities were all kind of similar to each other - I don't even remember anyone's names. The ending was disappointing, that mustache guy's team were killed by alien things and he wa...

I have to admit, I have never been one of Lovecraft`s biggest fans. I was pretty much always left with the feeling of "and then what happens?" whenever I read one of his stories... perhaps my youthfulness of the time prevented me from truly appreciating his stories... something I guess I'll have to remedy sometimes soon.The suspense while reading this story was palpable... even to the point of getting a much needed relief and a chuckle when they "run" into the penguin. I have no doubt Lovecraft

This was so freaking fantastic! I've tried reading Lovecraft before but the language was very hard for me to get into. I love the concepts, I just couldn't get into the stories. A graphic novel adaptation is a great way to show what the heck the author was talking about in a more digestible way. I had only heard of this story's title before. I knew nothing about what was going to happen other than a scientific research team goes to Antarctica and finds something unusual. I genuinely gasped out l...

I have been a fan of HP Lovecrafts work ever since university when I first discovered his work - followed shortly by realising how influential he is. From such a short writing career he created a body of work which is even to this day inspiring writers, artists and film makers. So when I found out that there was a publisher which had taken some of his most famous stories (and in some cases other authors who he had influenced) and turned them in to graphic novels I was very interested. This there...

The tone or color of the book is all blues and whites. There is a feeling of desolation and quiet.I know I use the word creepy often, but this is a creepy story. Spine tingling might be a different way to say it. I enjoy the end when they find out what is behind the mountains. Incredible imagery and it makes your mind think, what if?sI have to admit I haven't read H. P. Lovecraft. I know this is a hole in my reading background and this book entices me to read some of his stories. I enjoyed this

“Nor is it to be thought that man is either the oldest or the last of Earth’s masters... the Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be."The original story is one of my favourites from Lovecraft. I love the combination of fantasy and science, as well as how it ties into the Cthulhu Mythos, with references to the Necronomicon and Miskatonic University. At the Mountains of Madness is both creepy and unsettling.Quite a large proportion of Lovecraft’s stories take place in New Englan...

H.P. Lovecraft wrote, or more accurately, overwrote At the Mountains of Madness in 1936. (That "overwrote" in the preceding sentence already has me on the bad side of avid Lovecraftians.) I read the original years ago when I did most of my Lovecraft reading, and it was never one of my favorites, crucial as it may be to the Cthulhu mythos. Since the Guillermo del Toro film has been canceled, this graphic novel seemed like a good way to revisit the material.The drawings emphasize that this is a 19...

the good: the art is lovely and I liked the oddness of a story that features art that looks like an homage to Boys' Adventures serials from the 20s and 30s being put in service of a dire Lovecraft plot. I always appreciate the tension that occurs when simple, often primary color-based palettes, intelligent use of shadow, and retro stylization are used to tell a story of darkness and terror. Blue Velvet, Parents, etc. so that was an interesting choice by Culbard. or maybe it's just his style?

Good adaptation of Lovecraft work into a comic book. The illustrations look a bit childish for my personal taste, yes it can be a good way to get children (around 10 years old maybe) to discover Lovecraft, but I would have like a darker style for the arts. If not that aspect, it was fun to read and well adapted. Enjoyable!

At the Mountains of Madness is the third of four H.P. Lovecraft novels included in the gorgeously produced Self Made Hero omnibus Lovecraft, adapted and illustrated by I. N. J. Culbard. I decided to review them separately, and in the process of reading it realized that I had read it before. I think I must have read the original tale decades ago, or at least tried to read it: Lovecraft is not my favorite writer. I like all the cool adventure/horror ideas he has--that Cthulhu mythos he creates--bu...

Perhaps one needs to be a fan of the original H.P. Lovecraft novel to appreciate this graphic novel adaptation. In this story, several scientists travel to explore Antarctica; all these scientists and assistants are white men and in their parkas and goggles are virtually indistinguishable (one has a moustache, but which one?—I can't remember).The result is a kind of basic fantasy presenting a view of earth history that, instead of being much of a secret, has been told and re-told — that prior ci...

I've been a fan of H.P. Lovecraft for a while now. I mean, not a real fan. Real fans of the author would almost certainly consider me a dilettante—a lipstick Lovecraftian, if you will. Fact: I have never finished anything Lovecraft wrote. I gave At the Mountains of Madness a shot several years ago when I downloaded it for free for my old-gen Kindle. It was too slow, too dry, too far-removed to keep my interest.What then are my points of contact with the author's worlds? Through Mignola's Hellboy...

While I love the art int this volume I don't think it's very well suited for depicting the sense of dread & overwhelming horrors of Lovecraft. A mix of styles would have been great. The simple TinTin like style at the beginning slowly giving way to something much darker & crazier as the story progressed would have been my choice.

MINI REVIEW: so I've yet to read the novelette/novel but I enjoyed the graphic novel. A lot of the big reveals I already knew because I've played the roleplaying game and the historical section reveals a great deal about the Mythos. That said, for people who have not read either I suspect the graphic novel will give you a nice twist at the end.Tale focuses upon an expedition going up to the North Pole in the 1930s and discovering a strange city there. Keep in mind that back in that time we as a