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Post by kooshmeister on Sept 27, 2014 15:24:45 GMT
Speaking of the graphic novel, I was able to use super-glue to rebind it. Very primitive and hardly a proper restorative measure, but, hey, needs must and all that. Whatever holds the comic together and lets me keep reading it. All things considered, if del Toro ever manages to make his movie version, I do hope he'll use Culbard's graphic novel as a guide, at least for the plot structure, since, however one feels about the art style, it does a really excellent job of expanding Lovecraft's novel. For example in the novel, we're ignorant about what's going on at Lake's camp, but for what we hear over the radio and what narrator Dyer tells us, whereas Culbard's comic actually shows the discovery and dissection of the Elder Things (but has the subsequent revival of the creatures and the killing of Lake and his team happen offscreen, in order to preserve the shock of what Dyer's team finds when they lose contact with them suddenly and goes looking for them).
It also makes Danforth, Lake, Pabodie, Atwood and Gedney into actual three-dimensional (or at least two-dimensional) characters instead of interchangeable team members as they are in Dyer's narration. For example, Pabodie gets name-dropped as the designer of the drill the group is using but is promptly forgotten about. Here, he's a gruff, strong-jawed guy who frankly resembles Ed Asner and is very much the source of reason and levity among the group, particularly during the disagreement between Dyer and Lake about whether to split up the expedition. Gedney as well gets developed, being portrayed as essentially the only completely sensible member of Lake's team, unlike in the book where he's just the "token missing guy everyone thinks did the killings."
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Post by ramseycampbell on Nov 27, 2017 8:37:33 GMT
I was always intrigued that the first magazine publication of "Mountains" was in Astounding Science Fiction, mainly because HPL's brand of cosmic horror never struck me as being a good fit with editor John W. Campbell's generally optimistic outlook... But anyhoo, I have the issue of Astounding before the 1st part of "Mountains" appeared and here's what John W Campbell had to say about it: Now I come to think about it, I can't help wondering if "Mountains" helped to inspire Campbell's own classic tale of Antarctic-based SFnal horror, "Who Goes There" (which appeared two years later in Astounding, in August 1938).. Sorry I only just spotted this, a misconception that appears to be quite widespread online. Campbell didn't say that - F. Orlin Tremaine did. Campbell didn't start editing Astounding Stories until the following year. |
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Post by Carfilhiot on Nov 27, 2017 20:40:48 GMT
I was always intrigued that the first magazine publication of "Mountains" was in Astounding Science Fiction, mainly because HPL's brand of cosmic horror never struck me as being a good fit with editor John W. Campbell's generally optimistic outlook... But anyhoo, I have the issue of Astounding before the 1st part of "Mountains" appeared and here's what John W Campbell had to say about it: Now I come to think about it, I can't help wondering if "Mountains" helped to inspire Campbell's own classic tale of Antarctic-based SFnal horror, "Who Goes There" (which appeared two years later in Astounding, in August 1938).. Sorry I only just spotted this, a misconception that appears to be quite widespread online. Campbell didn't say that - F. Orlin Tremaine did. Campbell didn't start editing Astounding Stories until the following year. You're completely right. I looked at the Jan 1936 issue and the Editor's Page is simply signed, "The Editor". D'oh! |
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