It’s a direct reference to At The Mountains of Madness. The penguins make exactly that call in the book and are friendly with the Ancient Ones, and really only present in the story while the humans are in the domain of the Ancient Ones.
Although the choice of showing Cthulhu in the final panel rather than one of the Ancient Ones is inaccurate. Perhaps it’s meant to be a sculpture, since in Call of Cthulhu it was made clear that Cthulhu was specifically the shaman of the ancient ones, meant to wake them when the time is right
Anyways I’d highly recommend reading the stories since they’re quite a unique style and dripping with a mounting, growing intensity. You can even listen on LibriVox. Call of Cthulhu is about an hour long and At The Mountains of Madness is about 4.5 hours long, so one decent car trip’s worth of audiobook basically
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 months ago
It makes sense if you’ve read At The Mountains of Madness.
Electric_Druid@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Okay, I read it years ago and forgot that necessary, context so that one’s my bad. I still take issue with the AI art/media that is creeping into Lemmy.
roguetrick@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Sure but shoggoths have a lot more eyes.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 months ago
They’re shapeshifters; this one just shifted into whatever the hell Cthulhu/Dagon is. 🤷🏻♂️
rumba@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Just needs a disclaimer at the bottom extra dimensions not shown