It wouldn't surprise me if there is some meta-commentary going on but I might be barking up wrong tree. Has anyone got any ideas on a wider commentary on comics in this IP?ĭanny reminds me of Jack Frost in the Invisibles and the dropping of Christhulu into the timeline reminds me of the alien bee in Watchmen. If you enjoyed this one I'd definitely recommend Anthropocalypse collection.

I tend to read IP in a whirl and rush and then go back and read slowly! Without charity and mercy and the 'good' bits of Christianity. What does that do to the last 2000 years? What does that do to the laws, the music, the architecture.And what does that do to the people growing up in that world?Īn entire timeline has become toxic, viscous. Now imagine that instead of the consolation of the resurrection the revelation of the cross was the eldritch horror of Cthulu. Whether it's been a power for good or evil we can spend the rest of our lives discussing but it's promoted beauty, emancipation and terrible horror and brutality. If you think about the history of the world then the power of Christianity's influence is clear. There's a line in the story about 'weaponising belief'. Often it's created by a group-mind, the Egregore then feeds back into that mind.

Rusting locks may relate to it.ģ) An Egregore is a thought-form.

In the previous IP story there's a character called the Nihilist hanging in the shadows. I think it could be part of the larger story. That's nicked straight out of Lovecraft's books to screw with the minds of the planet.Ģ) I hadn't spotted that! Will look out on my re-read. Cthulu might exist in the IP universe as a.thing. They're using a fictional construct to create a new myth.

Hopefully Sauchie will be here soon to deliver the gold!ġ) Yeah, my reading is it's the construct body, initially mapped to his daughter, then mapped to Christ. I'm wanting to go back and read the whole series again.

Revelation online mythos panel