{"id":58758,"date":"2023-03-12T03:05:27","date_gmt":"2023-03-12T03:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=58758"},"modified":"2023-03-09T02:29:40","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T02:29:40","slug":"tanabes-the-shadow-over-innsmouth-in-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2023\/03\/12\/tanabes-the-shadow-over-innsmouth-in-english\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanabe’s “The Shadow Over Innsmouth” in English"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

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Italy recently saw it released as a two-volume translation totalling 480 pages…<\/p>\n

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Also noted in comics, Slings & Arrows<\/em> has a new review of<\/a> Jim Steranko’s Marvel Visionaries<\/em> collection (2002) and the reviewer, as well as some classic Captain America<\/em> issues, notes the following…<\/p>\n

The Lovecraft-inspired \u2018At the Stroke of Midnight\u2019 [is] beautifully drawn, with characters navigating panoramic gothic backdrops, through rows of micro-panels (pictured, right) capturing moment-to-moment reactions. Steranko\u2019s use of extreme tonal contrasts prefigures V for Vendetta<\/em> and Sin City<\/em>. It\u2019s a visual delight, and not reprinted elsewhere. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The tale was originally a seven-pager in the spinner-rack comic Tower of Shadows<\/em> #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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dark Horse has finally dated Gou Tanabe’s “The Shadow Over Innsmouth” comics adaptation in its English translation. Though we’ll still …<\/p>\n

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