Dávid Novotný's Reviews > Mýtus Cthulhu

Great example how comics adaptation shouldn't look like. If comics is a medium where words and art creates one linked up experience, this book is one big failure.

So cold adaptations are parts of the story told in frames, dialogues are almost non existent, and mostly they describe what is in panels. And that's a good thing. Because Breccia's style is just...awful. He mostly uses some ink stains, combined with some collages of torn up photos and other paintings, now and there supplemented with some actual drawings. He is far beyond the line where it actually helps to create dark atmosphere and most of the pages are one big unrecognisable mess, where whole black and white thing doesn't help at all.

Whole power of stories comes from actual HPLs ideas, and adaptation doesn't bring anything new. Maybe it just didn't aged well, and 50 years ago were people keen to accept different stuff than today. For me, it is a big disappointment and only reason to read this book is, if you are comics historician, or hardcore HPL fan, that needs to read everything, even slightly related to him