![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The book could stand being another 5 pages or so long, allowing for a more careful, more soothing transition to and from important bits (or, sometimes, chunks) of information. When repeated, this sly form of Deus ex Machina gets tedious, and that's what happened here. By this I mean that certain plot elements seem either too foreshortened or they feel like infodumps disguised as a small panel within the comic. Graphic novels run the risk, because of the media itself, of being too "sudden". I review the book in such a choppy way in order to illustrate the beginning of my problems with Howard Lovecraft and the Frozen Kingdom. ![]() Of course, being a disobedient and very curious child, he does not. In brief, Howard Lovecraft is given a mystic book by his institutionalized father which, the crazed parent says, young Howard must destroy. The story itself, however, leaves a lot to be desired. I've got to hunt down more of Renzo Podesta's work. Renzo Podesta's artwork is beautiful, simultaneously cute and sinister, somewhere between Winsor McCay and Brom with a smidge of Ben Templesmith thrown in. Bruce Brown's Howard Lovecraft and the Frozen Kingdom has a long reach, but stops just sort of grasping its potential. ![]()
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