{"id":29214,"date":"2019-08-10T05:12:49","date_gmt":"2019-08-10T02:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=29214"},"modified":"2019-08-10T05:12:49","modified_gmt":"2019-08-10T02:12:49","slug":"atomic-robo-and-the-shadow-from-beyond-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/08\/10\/atomic-robo-and-the-shadow-from-beyond-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Atomic Robo and The Shadow from Beyond Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Found, another “Lovecraft as character” graphic novel. It’s April 1926, and H.P. Lovecraft teams up with weird-hunter Charles Fort. It turns out to be more about the main Atomic Robo character than Lovecraft, but it’s definitely a Lovecraftian story and what there is of Lovecraft in terms of dialogue is very amusing.<\/p>\n

Completely free to read online<\/a>, or there’s a nice paper version for $25.<\/p>\n

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There’s a whole series of these books<\/a>, which started off somewhat military for the ‘origin story’ of Atomic Robo but from issue three run in the Tintin<\/em> \/ Blake and Mortimer<\/em> \/ Doc Savage<\/em> sort of mystery-adventure pulp line, with lots of ‘the weird’ and dashes of time-travel. And very deft old-school humour tied to nice pacing. I’ve read the Lovecraft one, and read into some of the others a little, and they’re very enjoyable both in story, framing and art. Definitely ones to stash in your “old-school entertainment” folder.<\/p>\n

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I’d never heard of the books before, though. It’s so difficult to find out about this sort of thing in comics. The main coverage of comics is wall-to-wall print-the-press-release stuff on the weekly tidal wave of superheroes, manga, juvenile titles. Flanked by a tiny handful of people who can bear to do an occasional review of the depressing and angsty type of comics. You could read Previews<\/em> magazine for an entire year<\/em>, and still not know that there are completed graphic novels such as a whole series<\/em> of Atomic Robo<\/em>. Not that you’d want to do that, but there’s no curator looking for stuff I want to find, so one has to do it oneself. I mean, I searched and searched<\/em> such things for a survey in Digital Art Live<\/em> #35 and am doing the same for the next issue… and yet I still only found Atomic Robo<\/em> by complete and utter chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Found, another “Lovecraft as character” graphic novel. It’s April 1926, and H.P. Lovecraft teams up with weird-hunter Charles Fort. It …<\/p>\n

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