Review: The Nameless City Book 1

A river runs through it: The mountain passage to the sea, carved out by long-forgotten technology, makes The Nameless City such a strategically important location.

This has nothing to with the 1921 HP Lovecraft short story of the same name, widely held to be the first Cthulhu Mythos story. Still, The Nameless City by Canadian cartoonist Faith Erin Hicks may in time come to be hailed as the foundation for its own well-regarded mythology, if the writer-artist keeps going at this rate and level.

This graphic novel aimed at early teens and up is set in what seems to be an Asian country, probably in the past, but possibly even the future – say, when mankind is rebuilding after some apocalypse or other, and much of today’s knowledge has been forgotten.