Like many geeks, I'm rather familiar with the basics of H.P. Lovecraft including the Necronomicon, the slant towards meta-fiction and the propensity for tentacles, among other things. However I do regret admitting that I haven't actually read any of the Lovecraft stories - I'm not exactly into the horror genre after all. However it's hard to escape Cthulhu in pop culture these days for one reason or another.
My partner is a rather big horror buff though, and so he recently picked up a copy of this graphic novel at the recently concluded Manila International Book Fair. He had actually read it before and was just keen on getting a copy and of course having me read it eventually.
In truth, it turned out that this comic had actually inspired a tabletop RPG session that Tobie had run for me and some friends, although it had ended in a rather disturbing manner. It was probably the closest that I've gotten in terms of the Lovecraft mythos and the experience was certainly dark and disturbing in many ways. So just reading the comic actually didn't feel quite as bad given I had already "experienced" the horrors before, in a manner of speaking.
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Oct 1, 2013
[Comics] Neonomicon
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