H.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness, Part 1 of 2

Beautiful adaptation of the Lovecraft's famous novel "Mountains of Madness". Lovecraft's stories are rather tricky for visual media like comic (as several books I read before proved) because a lot of things takes place in the mind of the reader.

Mr Tanabe manages to give beautiful visuals to the story without losing both clarity (even when depicting the otherworldly horrors) and that creeping feeling of dread as we follow our protagonists enter deeper and deeper into maddening world of the Elder Ones.

Story in itself is adaptation of the novel - ambitious expedition to Antarctica will soon find itself in great peril as their archaeological and zoological research pushes them more and more towards the mysterious mountain chain deep in show more Antarctica.

Art is just gorgeous with some of the two-page art that is of poster quality. Author proves that black and white comic art can be very expressive when done by a true master.

Highly recommended to all fans of H.P. Lovecraft's stories and beautiful visual art. show less

I enjoyed this, but it should really be in a full-sized graphic novel size, not the smaller book size in which it's published, in order to see an fully appreciate Tanabe's artwork. As it is, it is too small, it is hard to make out details, and some of the panels are too small. Even with a bright lamp, I found myself at times straining to see the details and the drawings.

Wow what a story and so creepy! Cool illustrations. Looking forward to reading the next one.

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Enjoy!

This first volume is an excellent setup for the madness to come in the second volume!