I've said before that any famous character that lends himself well to parody will have a good chance at being timeless. Howard Phillips Lovecraft is one of them.
Take today's post, for instance. In the comic book CTHULHU TALES (Vol. 1 No. 11, February 2009), writer Luke Burns and artist Roger Langridge propose what ichorous prose could be bestowed upon a Chocolate Sampler box if Lovecraft had had the job of writing the copy for it. The result is clever and more than amusing. . .