Dark Horse has finally dated Gou Tanabe’s “The Shadow Over Innsmouth” comics adaptation in its English translation. Though we’ll still have to wait a while, and even then its release will manage to miss the pre-Halloween market. 24th November 2023 is the current date for the $30 single volume. The original from manga master Tanabe was first published in Japanese, concluding there in November 2020.
Italy recently saw it released as a two-volume translation totalling 480 pages…
Also noted in comics, Slings & Arrows has a new review of Jim Steranko’s Marvel Visionaries collection (2002) and the reviewer, as well as some classic Captain America issues, notes the following…
The Lovecraft-inspired ‘At the Stroke of Midnight’ [is] beautifully drawn, with characters navigating panoramic gothic backdrops, through rows of micro-panels (pictured, right) capturing moment-to-moment reactions. Steranko’s use of extreme tonal contrasts prefigures V for Vendetta and Sin City. It’s a visual delight, and not reprinted elsewhere.
The tale was originally a seven-pager in the spinner-rack comic Tower of Shadows #1 (September 1969), and it appears that Steranko also had standalone strips in later editions of the same title. Having tracked this particular strip down at a blog as scans, I’d say it’s rather more ‘haunted house’ than Lovecraftian (possibly the reviewer was thinking of Derleth’s ‘collaborations’), but with some effective twists and moments.
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