Howard Lovecraft and the Frozen Kingdom eBook Bruce Brown
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After visiting his father in Arkham Sanitarium, young Howard Lovecraft ignores his father's warning and uses the legendary Necronomicon to open a portal to a strange frozen world filled with horrifying creatures and grave danger. Alone and scared, Howard befriends a hideous creature he names Spot who takes him to the castle of the king where he is captured and sentenced to death.
Howard Lovecraft and the Frozen Kingdom eBook Bruce Brown
Let me start by saying the actual context of this graphic novel is great. I bought it for my 8 year old. He has a developmental delay and I figured a graphic novel would help him with his reading. However, as soon as he opened the book, it fell apart. It became unglued and the pages just fell out.Product details
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Howard Lovecraft and the Frozen Kingdom eBook Bruce Brown Reviews
This slender graphic novel interested me for a couple of different reasons (1) I'm an avid H.P. Lovecraft and comics fan thats always on the lookout for adaptions of the former's work and milieu into the latter form; (2) I'm the father of a 6-year-old girl who's starting to get into comics and graphic novels a bit and who has a fondness for fantasy-themed stories and fantastic creatures.
My verdict I think this would make for entertaining reading for older pre-teens and for open-minded HPL fans. Younger kids might find it a little TOO scary (and will probably find the vocabulary a bit too advanced as well); dogmatic Cthulhu Mythos enthusiasts will probably suffer a brain aneurysm due to all the "incorrect" Mythos references. I myself found it charming and was pleasantly surprised by the rather dark ending. I probably won't be purchasing a copy for my lovable little monster, but it may be just perfect for yours.
Howard Lovecraft And The Frozen Kingdom is an original graphic novel, the brainchild of Bruce Brown. We see a fictional story from the early years of the real life H P Lovecraft, as the boy meets his tormented father only to end in a mythical realm of ice and monsters everywhere. This may fool a number of people as being presented as an all-ages/family-friendly book...but it's not.
With the boy Lovecraft as the hero of the tale, much of the story does seem to be a filtered, simplified take on the entire mythos of CTHULHU devised by Lovecraft the author. Brown has broken the mythos down to layman's terms as a gothic fairytale. Don't read me wrong here, Brown has pulled off something with this book that is astounding. Especially with the surprise ending- this book is obviously lovingly researched, lovingly crafted from start to finish. Brown has created the penultimate primer book, to begin readers young and old on the quest of working through the massive and growing catalogue of the real life horror author. Bravo, Bruce, bravo!
I had thought the art looked familiar, the angular and generally dark style used, and it hit me- Podesta also illustrated the fantastic fantasy graphic novel HUM, written by Scott Marcano and released a year or so back elsewhere. His work here has grown, surprisingly- as he seemed to have the skill down before. This is somewhere between Michael Oeming and Roger Langridge, but with gorgeous colors fully painting each and every frame into an entirely new dimension. Pat on the back to ace editor MacPherson for overseeing such a dynamic collaboration of writer and artist. Everything about this book just fits like a glove.
Howard Lovecraft And The Frozen Kingdom is a fun ride of a story, covering seemingly familiar ground and spinning it all into something new and refreshing. I sure hope there is some sort of sequel down the road. This is the kind of book you give to budding readers, budding comic book fans, budding horror fans, and especially Lovecraft fans who thought it's all been done.
Really clever book
awesome.
I read a lot of Lovecraft way back, and always wondered how he came to have such bizarre and nightmarish ideas. This work posits one amusing scenario (albeit fanciful), that it wasn't fiction but rather a real childhood experience.
I got this book for an early teen (12-year-old) friend's son who is a big Lovecraft fan and avid graphic novels reader. This was his review as spoken to me
The first few pages (that you see in the preview) in the insane asylum and when Howard gets the Necronomicon are terrific. Well drawn illustrations with a plot that pulls you in and promises loads of Lovecraftian thrills.
Unfortunately, the rest of the book does not deliver. There seem to be two or three artists, and the book seems to have two more parts to it. The rest of the book with its other two parts is not that well drawn. And the plot stops being exciting and becomes a litany of Lovecraftian names (like Cthulhu) but without the Lovecraftian panache.
Overall, a disappointing read for a young Lovecraft fan expecting more.
Let me start by saying the actual context of this graphic novel is great. I bought it for my 8 year old. He has a developmental delay and I figured a graphic novel would help him with his reading. However, as soon as he opened the book, it fell apart. It became unglued and the pages just fell out.
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