Given the subject matter, there is a certain amount of commendable reticence to show too much. The layouts for both stories also start the same: a regular nine-panel grid, which breaks down in the subsequent pages. “Le Signe sans Nom” is darker, with more blacks, greys, and blues, while “Massacre” is brighter, dominated by yellows and greens-appropriate enough given the prominence of Hastur in this chapter of the story. Fogolin, however, approaches each story separately. The two works should really be considered as parts of the same story, and being parallel narratives, they have visual and textual echoes and references to one another-the final panels are largely identical. “Massacre à Miskatonic High School” is nine pages “Le Signe sans Nom” is eight. Taking a page from Lovecraft’s “The Dunwich Horror,” the two shooters want access to the ancient tomes contained (somewhat inexplicably) in the Miskatonic High School library. In this Miskatonic Massacre, Dzialowski and Fogolin have something similar happen, but for very different reasons. In real life, the two Columbine Massacre shooters committed suicide in the library. He had found some and he left me lots of notes … Il en avait trouv é certains et il m’a laiss é plein de notes…Īll his life, grandfather searched for books. Toute sa vie, grand-père a cherch é les livres. Real-world causes are complex: psychological issues, a disturbed home life, access to firearms are all contributing factors. Comic books have rarely touched on such controversial and emotionally-charged territory DC Comics notoriously cancelled the Hellblazer story “Shoot” by Warren Ellis, Phil Jimenez, and Andy Lanning in 1999 over concerns of backlash.Īt the bottom of most coverage of such shootings is one question: Why did they do it? What drove these kids to kill other kids? The media blitz helped to inspire numerous copycats partisan politicians and pundits in the United States tend to quickly politicize shootings to minimize arguments over gun ownership as happened in the aftermath of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School Shootings. The 1999 Columbine High School Massacre casts a long shadow over culture and pop culture alike. “Massacre à Miskatonic High School” on the other hand gives the perspective of the school shooters. “Le Signe sans Nom” is given after-the-fact, during the deposition of a Sergeant McDermot, who responded to the events at Miskatonic High. The two works are complementary, in that they tell different sides of the same story from different perspectives. Lovecraft, including an adaptation of Lovecraft’s “Dagon.” Two of the stories in the book are the work of Jean-Jacques Dzialowski (writer) & Dimitri Fogolin (artist): “Le Signe sans Nom” (“The Nameless Sign”) and “Massacre à Miskatonic High School” (“Miskatonic High School Massacre”). Les Mondes de Lovecraft(“The Worlds of Lovecraft,” 2008, Soleil) is a standalone French-language comic anthology of stories set in the world of H.
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