Manga Thoughts: The Colour Out of Space

In working my way through accumulated stacks of manga I took a little while to get to the latest Gou Tanabe adaptation of an H.P. Lovecraft story via Dark Horse, “The Colour Out of Space.” “On the treadmill of series already begun” might have mixed with “saving something impressive ‘for later’” to slow me down, but I suppose there was a bit of crawling caution too about seeing an interpretation of something hitherto just in my mind’s eye. The manga’s cover happens to suggest the insects that show up in the story, and I have to admit to my own case of hard-to-explain uneasiness around many kinds of them. Beyond that, I could suppose moments later in the story head towards full-blown “body horror,” and even artistic representations of people “melting” or otherwise disintegrating unsettle me that much further.
( Just don’t drink the water )