Casefile: ARKHAM
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| Rating | : | 4.35 (988 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 098392306X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 128 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-02-11 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Two Stars monty burnham Rather poor adaptation of Lovecraft's works. I was disappointed. Excellent Horror comic David Watson It was the mid 1940’s and things weren’t going well for Private eye Hank Flynn. He just got out of the war and moved to the mean streets of Arkham. Or out of the frying pan and into the fryer. Hank has seen terror in the war but that doesn’t compare to what he sees when he is hired by a wealthy socialite to find an artist named Pickman. Hank’s . Celluloid and Cthulhu The pulp genre seems to resurface at times in the world of comics. Sometimes it's just regular ol' crime stuff, but sometimes it gets a twist.Back in 2012 Brubaker and Phillips released a comic titled Fatale (Fatale, Book 1: Death Chases Me), where crime noir was fused with a maddening dose of Lovecraftian horror. In Casefile: Arkham this fusion gets explored again, b
What begins as a simple missing persons case leads Flynn down a dark path of flesh eating ghouls, vengeful witches, and the notorious Innsmouth mafia.. What if Raymond Chandler wrote Lovecraft stories? Set in the mid-1940s, Casefile: ARKHAM follows Hank Flynn, a down on his luck private eye who is back from the war and now working the mean streets of the most cursed city on Earth Arkham, Massachusetts. And things only get worse for Flynn when a wealthy uptown socialite hires him to track down an artist by the name of Pickman
--David Watson / HorrorAddicts . This is a really amazing book, with a lot of really cool references and hidden meanings. This is definitely up my creepy alley. Baker / Joup MagazineI can t say enough good things about this book. The plot itself is really interesting with supernatural ghouls and real magick (with a k ) being explored. The story is good, the characters are deep and realistic and the art is beautiful. If you do know them, you ve got a really amazing story. There are certainly more of them than I would have expectedbut they did keep my eyes glued to the pages, looking for more. It s definitely worth the read, so give it a read as soon as you can --Bhavna Bakshi / ComicWowthis book is a tonal achievement the likes of which is staggering, especially when you consider the elegant simplicity and relative ease with which creators Josh Finny and Patrick McEvoy