Issue
#2
Web: http://www.planetlovecraftmagazine.com/
H.P
Lovecraft was a writer of the horror, fantastical tales and the macabre. His novels
and short stories have become favourites of those outsiders interested in true
dark fiction and any potential list of adaptations of his works would be truly
immense. The sheer diversity of the Lovecraft “universe” today is breathtaking,
from RPG games to splatter films (who can forget From Beyond and the
Re-Animator), Indie films to novels, chapbooks and tales.
However,
I have always felt that due to the fantastical nature of Lovecraft’s works that
graphic illustration was great way to express the nature of the mythos that has
developed from this work and this is certainly what is found in the pages of
Planet Lovecraft.
Planet
Lovecraft is up to issue Two and has 56 pages, it has an awesome colour cover
of Cthulhu by Terry Pavlet. Volume One was very well received and it is good to
see that Volume Two is reaching an even larger audience. The stories are
superior in quality and beautifully illustrated. I especially like the way in
which you have different new explorations of the “Lovecraftian” universe and
how these tales, illustrated by different artists, offer us different styles of
comics and illustrations. There is even an article called “Pickman’s Modem”
offering musings on Lovecraft on the internet.
The
quality of the printing is superb. I especially notice this on the Well by Rob
Corliss and Knightgaunt, both great stories but which also use a lot of shades
of gray and this would have been a disaster with lower quality production.
This
is a great magazine, well edited, nicely formatted and high quality with top
class illustration. It offers a creative
way of exploring the Lovecraft mythos in various genres and styles.
Highly
recommended.