You know what miffs me about the whole Cthulhu mythos? I mean, I've only read a little from the man himself HP Lovecraft, and haven't really gotten in to any of the other authors who are considered to be a part of the genre, but these stories, they always take place in the 1920s and 1930s, and if the protagonist is ever armed its only with some crappy .38 service revolver or something.

That's why no one could play a Call of Cthulhu game with me, because I'd constantly be looking for a way to go all John-Wu on some ancient unfathomable terror with a pair of colt 1911s. I mean, really, lets see how a creature so ancient that it is beyond good and evil deals with 14 rounds of .45acp in it's bug eyes.

I'm sure issues like this must have been addressed elsewhere in the Cthulhu fandom, I'm just not really in touch with that. But for goodness sake, in the first story Cthulhu ever appears he is defeated, or at least sent back down beneath the sea to keep on snoozing by being rammed by a boat! Like, not even a special ice breaker ship or anything, just some douche's yatch.

Cthulhu has survived nukes.

Your Mom has survived nukes.

So did the incredible Hulk and the Andromeda strain and those lame aliens from that lamer film Independence Day I'm not impressed, throw something more eldrich at me. :)


Disclaimer: I'm just teasing, hope this is all in good fun for you too.

Remember in the Dunwich Horror, the youngest of the three professors insists on hauling along some sort of large-bore rifle despite the other professors telling him "Naw, that's not going to work"... I guess PCs are the same the world over.

I just can't help but think if in all those scenes in Harry Potter were wizards duel one another, if they'd just have a pistol in their off hand, or goodness sakes a magic sword of some minor sort that they'd be fighting much more efficiently. In fact Bellatrix LeStrange did just that, and she managed to kill one of Harry Potter's companions handily. Such eldrich things may have power in many strange spheres, but they can't be resistant to simply *everything* can they? There must be some ordinary but powerful thing we clever humans have made that even lovecraftian horrors are not fond of. After all, what survival powers did good nature give us? Horrid body oder and breath, meat that that tastes like that same BO, bites with bacterial payloads potent as any snake's poison (though a little too slow acting to do much good in a pinch), and of course the cleverness to make things that nature, red in tooth and claw just hadn't thought of. These supernatural beings, if they have intellects that are in any way like our own, certainly don't seem to build things for themselves. They don't wear cloths, they sleep in undersea cities constructed by cults of Murlocks! In The Shadow Over Innsmouth an entire cult of Dagon is handily dealt a blow with a single torpedo.

I'd hate to try to find what it is that hurts The Color out of Space but I can't help but think I'd start by challenging it with a prism and try to create an unearthly and eldrich recreation of the cover of an infamous Pink Floyd album!

"Mom always liked me more." BLAM!

cite your quote.

Ralph Bakshi's "Wizards." Ever seen it? "It's Ralph Bakshi's attempt to make an innocent fantasy film aimed at children" is a pretty good summary.

I have tragically not seen it.

yup - certainly a novel Your Momma joke :D

I was using a your momma joke in an ironic hipster fashion, so I'm immune to your critique of the quality of the joke, because the true joke was in the fact that I was using that form at all. Also, lets not fight, let's be friends, please?

of course we can be friends - I like your use of the form :)

Okay glad to be a friend.

I still think a properly equipped hit squad of race horse steroid infused American athletes sporting Faraday cage (look it up) helmets (to protect them from the grey waves of maddness no doubt emitted by a lovecraftian creature) and perhaps each with a fifh of whiskey in 'em for courage could beat up Cthulhu if they met on neutral terrain, something neither is entirely comfortable with, maybe a glacier or something.

heeheehee

I love weird monsters.. so cool

Thanks!

Oustanding, saw the silhouettes in the thumbnails and 'Cthulhu' and was all "YES!!!!" even before it loaded.

The Tupliaq is especially kickass.

Thanks!

P.S.

If you're reading this, you just lost five points of SAN.

The guy with the camera! The investigator silhouettes! The squamousness! <3 <3 <3

Your art is really inspiring... Looking at stuff like yours makes me want to doodle non-furry like I've started to do a bit. Also, draw transforming hyena-girls, but that was a given! =-)

Thank you! That's some compliment.

You're more than welcome... By the way, I've just put up a nice hyena girl, and there's another one coming in the next few days... =-P

They remind me of the creepy monsters from the myst.

That's Star Spawn, and ... something?

The silhouettes are indeed a great touch!

Thanks!

Not sure what that is. I kinda like the Michael Moorcock like idea of a stillborn god, that makes it into the D&D Epic book too, figure that's what it is.

These are so cool!

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You're very welcome!!

I like your Cthulhu inspired creatures... And the inking as well, of course.

*has no SAN left to lose*

Love the silhouette with the camera. "Hold still... >FLASH!!< Great! Oh shit, it noticed..."

Very cool indeed, the top one I'm not to sure of, is that supposed to be a deep one? Kinda reminds me of a render I did of Cthucthlu where he's being reaked out by Bill Gates.

Random tentacle/weird monster whatever. None of the stuff in Cthulhu 1 or Cthulhu 2, there, are supposed to actually be accurate to anything Lovecraft wrote about, just more in the spirit of things. More Lovecraft monsters to come, though, since he was pretty specific in some of his descriptions.

Gotta say, Cthulhu looks... skinnier than I would have thought. Must be the all-investigator diet. The pounds just melt away!