Strange Brew by John Deering for November 12, 2009

Funny, but only if your familiar with H.P. Lovecraft.

Which I am not, so this one’s over my head.

Although this does have a limited audience, I think its awesome that Mr. Deering went there! Love me some Lovecraft!

The bass sure doesn’t look like the Welcoming Committee.

I just read “Shadow Over Innsmouth”. Good read. Good comic, too.

Shows what I know, I was trying to figure out how “Bass Pro Shops” fit into the strip. You know, the chain store that’s like Cabela’s.

Wow, even Dennis Miller would find this one obscure.

I think only the Old Ones would get this.

Ooh, this is a deep one.

Don’t trust the Gorton’s fishman.

Gorton’s… wish i’d thought of using that. I know this one’s pretty obscure, but it’s actually the second time i’ve done a takeoff on this particular Lovecraft story for Strange Brew.

In both of them, I was hoping that readers would pick up on the general theme of ” Uh Oh, some humans have stumbled into this sort of alternate world of fish people”

Lovecraft seems to have been re-discovered by a new generation of admirers over the last several years, with some Death Metal rock band even appropriating his dark Gothic themes and phrases for their songs.

Innsmouth. Why is it always Innsmouth? Why can’t you just say Ipswich and leave it at that?

If you really want to read this, here, I believe, is the complete story:

The Call of Cthulhu

if this is, indeed, that in which you have an interest - I must get back to my Necronomicon…