BOOK: Dark Horse Presents TITLE: Codex Arcana - A Tribute to H.P. Lovecraft ISSUE: #142 COMPANY: Dark Horse Comics WRITTERS: Mike Mignola, Scott Allie and Welles Hartley ARTISTS: Ryan Sook, Galen Showman and Vince Giarrano LETTERERS: Pat Brosseau, Galen Showman and Clem Robins COVER BY: Mike Mignola GOING PRICE: $2.95 All right folks, what we have here is your standard, every day, run of the mill Dark Horse Presents. I'll tell you what.. as an overall, I'm not happy with this book. Don't get me wrong, because I love a good H.P. Lovecraft read! There's nothing much like curling up with a cup of tea and some sort of Cthulhu book. I've even played the Call Of Cthulhu RPG. It's like this people: I like Cthulhu stories... but you cannot cram 3 stories into a comic book and expect someone who has read Cthulhu stories before, to be anywhere close to satisfied. The three stories where nice, sweet and short. That was the problem though... they were too short. They just ended to fast. Teasers, really, nothing more than teasers. This comic could be quite enjoyable for someone who has never read an H.P. Lovecraft type story, but for those of us who have... I'm sure we were all dissapointed in the length of the stories... lusting for more! What would really rip would be a 4 issue mini series dealing strictly Cthulhu and drawn by Mike Mignola... but, then again, I guess that's why I read HellBoy!!!! - Shane

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