Happy New Year to employees of the magnus institute, Happy New Year to avatars of otherworldly beings of fear, Happy New Year to werewolf police officers, Happy New Year to gay apocalypse starters, Happy New Year to ‘Somewhere Else’, and Happy New Year to Jonathan Sims.
One of the reasons I found myself so encapsulated by The Magnus Archives is because of the delightful, mundane realism that’s so beautifully entwined with the horrifying, awe-inspiring otherworldly aspects; this is done well in many things, but I’ve never come across a piece of media that’s so effectively conveyed the nightmare of becoming something inhuman whilst being forced to continue your every day life.