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3.5 StarsMore of the same from the first volume. Plenty of Cthulhu Mythos stories that range from dark to funny. I do like the imaginative mix as new material is explored and we don't get the same themes rehashed over and over, or at least we get to see new takes on the themes.Once again, an interesting read for Lovecraft fans but probably not something for a more casual reader.
I've not read much from Lovecraft and don't really know the Cthulhu mythos beyond general knowledge I assume most haveBut I loved this comic! The stories were all different, some fun, some disturbing but all were a joy to read.
It's unclear to me which issues this omnibus collects, but, by-and-large, I found this collection to be a little stronger and more experimental than Cthulhu Tales Omnibus: Delirium. There's far fewer mad narrators and less rote falls into madness and death. In fact, it seems to me that there's more of an emphasis on heroic sacrifice here, like the heroes who obstruct doorways from other dimensions in "The Doorman" and the heroic social worker of "Rite to Life" who saves a kid from a cult.It also...
This is a collection of short comic book stories which in some way connect to Cthulhu. There's no other common plot or theme. Some of them are funny. Some of them have adventure or twist endings. One of them was just this weird absurdism. Only one of them really bordered on scary, which was the one which did the best job of avoiding showing anything. That's the fundamental problem here: you can't really draw the elder gods and still have them feel adequately scary. There were some good stories i...
I don't know what I expected to find when I started this book, but I was hoping to have something that captured my attention and fascinated me most of the time. The Cthulhu Tales is a collection of "horror tales" inspired by H.P. Lovecraft by a wide range of well known artists and story tellers. I just couldn't get through this. I tried, but I found the writing and subject to be dry and confusing. It might be a better read for someone who's well versed in Lovecraft, but for the casual reader loo...
As the back of the book says: fun, wild, inventive, and often scary. I'll actually give it those, in about those proportions. I think it's hard to actually make a frightening comic (and will forever be glad that Fall of Cthulhu, Vol. 1: The Fugue actually managed). In terms of being frightening, this one at managed to be decently creepy, and occasionally surprising.
Largely half-baked tales with only cursory references to Lovecraft and his ilk. A lot of it read as unfinished work, or samples of stories that might have gone somewhere with more. There are a couple of gems here, but it's mostly predictable and poorly written. A lot of the art is noteworthy, but the writing is appalling.
Slightly better than the Delirium volume, with several striking stories (most notably those by Messner-Loebs) but still with way too many tales that show no true understanding of Lovecraft's work. Filling a story with characters named Howard and Charles and dropping in a few words like Dagon and Ryleth does not make for satisfying fiction.
A few good stories but for the most part this collection fell flat.
Great collection of weird, wacky & twisted flash fiction stories with scorpion tale endings.Particularly loved the reality TV spoof & the adopted fish-boy tale. (see what I did there?)
The stories presented aren't in the same universe. Sure, there's Cthulhu and the elder gods, but there is no common narrative. The stories also don't tend to really resolve, they just end.
