Showing posts with label 2000s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2000s. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder HP LOVECRAFT'S THE CALL OF CTHULHU "Call of Cthulhu" Conclusion

 When Last We Left the Elder Gods...

...our intrepid explorers into the unknown approach an island...where none should exist...and see...R'lyeh...a city that shouldn't be there...









Once more, we present several pages with the truly unique, moody coloring used only in the Spanish-language publication of the tale...



Cthulhu Lives!
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Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder HP LOVECRAFT'S THE CALL OF CTHULHU "Call of Cthulhu" Part 2

We Have Already Seen...


Title Page from the first appearance of this tale, in Weird Tales V11N2 (1928)!
Inheriting the papers and personal effects of his late grand-uncle, linguistic professor George Gammell Angell, our narrator discovers a small bas-relief sculpture which yields "simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature", along with documents mentioning frequent references to Cthulhu and R'lyeh!
Tracing the documented incidents leads to a larger statue of indeterminate, but undeniable antiquity...perhaps predating known history...
To Be Concluded Next Wednesday!
Here's a couple of pages from this section of the original Spanish language publication, showing the unique color palette used for the story!
Pity these have never been reprinted in any of the several English-language editions!
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Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder HP LOVECRAFT'S THE CALL OF CTHULHU "Call of Cthulhu" Part 1

  If we're going to present Lovecraft...

...let's start with the seminal tale of cosmic horror by H P!









To be Continued Next Wednesday!
Adapted by Esteban Maroto, who did both script (in Spanish) and art for Editorial Bruguera in 1982.
Howver, Bruguera went bankrupt before publication.
Maroto shopped the material around and it finally appeared in Ediciones B's Capitán Trueno magazine in 1986.
Here are a couple of pages from that adaptation...

In 1990, a new American comics publisher, CrossPlains, made a deal with Maroto to publish the project in English, with the translation supplied by Roy Thomas.
But, due to budget limitations, they printed it in b/w.
That's the version we're running here.
It's been re-published since with another translation, but still in b/w.

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Monday, July 7, 2025

Monday Mecha Madness MEGAS XLR "LowBrow" (Pilot) & "Test Drive" (Premiere Episode)

Unseen on Free TV for over TWO Decades!
If you haven't seen it, just watch it.
You'll thank me later.
If you have seen it, you might as well watch it again here, since it's not rerunning on cable and isn't available on DVD/BluRay.
It is on AppleTV+...for $1.99 per half-hour episode!
First up, the 7-minute pilot (an intro, not the origin)
Then, the first 23-minute episode of the ongoing series, "Test Drive", which IS an origin episode!
Bonus: the complete theme song...
We will be re-presenting the comics adaptation in the future, but this was so cool I couldn't resist!
Enjoy!

Wednesday, October 25, 2023

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder O.C.T. OCCULT CRIMES TASKFORCE "Not As It Seems" Conclusion

The Soul Ripper is Revealed...

...to have been inside the body of Sophia Ortiz's late father's O.C.T. partner!
Now it attempts to tale possession of Sophia!

During its' four-issue run in 2006-7, Dimension Films acquired the movie options, but the project sat in Development Hell until the rights lapsed.
Then, in 2012, A&E announced the property would be produced as a mini-series produced by and starring Rosario Dawson with Gale Ann Hurd as Executive Producer.
Sadly, that didn't progress beyond the discussion stage.
And, of course, Rosario is wayyy to busy now to even consider pursuing it again!

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