He beseeches the Gods of Dream – and he is heard (in frames that recall Marvel’s Secret Wars from way back when) – and from here on in, he’s a-questing. We get the sense he is pushing through his dreams, trying to get back to this place that calls to him. The story opens amid golden clouds, a city shining in silhouette, a place our hero Randolph Carter has travelled to three times already. Unpublished in his lifetime and part of what is famously known as the Dream Cycle (over 20 works of varying length written between 19, concerning a vast alternate dimension that can be entered through dreams, which includes both works that INJ Culbard has previously adapted graphically for Self-Made Hero – such as At the Mountains of Madness and The Case of Charles Dexter Ward – and works featuring Randolph Carter, who is the hero of The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath), the latest HP Lovecraft graphic novelisation might just be the wildest ride yet (and seemingly indicative of a surge of wild, out there, quest-y graphic novels Self-Made Hero are publishing at the moment, such as Frederik Peeter’s epic Aama).
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