August 21, 2024

Major Spoilers Podcast #1089: The Podcast of Cthulhu

57 minutes

Calling Cthulhu! We take a look at The Call To Cthulhu this week, and see if the Great Old One is all it is cracked up to be. We review Sunny-Luna Travelling Oracle from Dark Horse Comics, Free Agent #2 from Image Comics, and Prairie Gods #1 from Mad Cave Studios. Plus, are shared world anthologies great?

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REVIEWS

STEPHEN

SUNNY-LUNA TRAVELLING ORACLE

Writer: Matthew Erman

Artist: Sam Beck

Publisher: Dark Horse Comics/Berger Books

Cover Price: $24.99

Release Date: August 21, 2024

Esta, a lonely, book-hungry, restless teen, must fight to save the planet in this eco-noir graphic novel thriller that's part Fahrenheit 451 and part Station Eleven. In the devastated dystopian dust bowl of what was once America, a mesmerizing stage show called The Sunny-Luna Travelling Oracle comes to Esta's town. When Sunny and Luna take an interest in her, it feels like her ticket out. But these mysterious proprietors are secretly members of a harsh authoritarian order, and they have a hidden agenda: scavenge for mythic texts that hold the last hope for reviving a natural world-and destroy them. Esta is the unwitting key to this strange magic, and she soon finds herself literally transported to a supernatural Wonderland-and the twisted plot of Sunny and Luna.

[rating:3.5/5]

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MATTHEW

FREE AGENTS #2

Writer: Kurt Busiek/Fabian Nicieza

Artist: Stephen Mooney

Publisher: Image Comics

Cover Price: $3.99

Release Date: August 07, 2024

After the shattering conclusion of issue #1, are the Free Agents still free-or back on active duty? Plus, the appearance of a second deadly remnant from their interdimensional war forces the team into conflict with Botokk, the super-human curator for the mysterious collector known as The Vault!

[rating:3/5]

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RODRIGO

PRAIRIE GODS #1

Writer: Shane Connery Volk

Artist: Shane Connery Volk

Publisher: Mad Cave Studios

Cover Price: $4.99

Release Date: September 4, 2024

Created by the artist of Nottingham, Prairie Gods is The Twilight Zone meets Sin City. Each self-contained issue centers on supernatural events and characters in and around the small prairie town of Broadacres. The series will resonate with fans of Hellboy, while the shifting genres and themes will appeal to fans of Westerns, crime, racecar movies, lost treasure serials, and war stories-with a dose of action throughout.

The first exhilarating story features Freddy Davis, a champion race car driver, who has returned home to Broadacres. He buys the abandoned speedway intending to race its only undefeated driver: the Devil himself.

[rating: 4.5/5]

DISCUSSION

A CALL TO CTHULHU

Writer/Artist: Norm Konyu

Publisher: Titan Comics

Cover Price: $12.72

Release Date: December 2023

Part comic book, part artbook, part children’s storybook, A Call To Cthulhu is a fun, irreverent trip through the classic stories of HP Lovecraft, the influential horror writer, and a perfect introduction to his work for your little terrors! His stories and Cthulhu Mythos would inspire later writers such as Stephen King and Alan Moore, and today form the backbone of many movies, TV series, books, comics, and games.

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