The many-angled ones are fictional other-dimensional beings linked to the Cthulhu Mythos. In mathematics the dimension of a Space is roughly defined as the minimum number of Coordinates needed to specify every point within it The Cthulhu Mythos is a Shared universe created in the 1920s by American horror writer H They first appeared in the British comic strip Zenith in which they are known as the Lloigor, a direct reference to creatures from the Cthulhu Mythos. A comic strip is a sequence of drawings that tells a story Currently in the Western world, most comic strips are written and drawn by a Comics artist Zenith ( Robert MacDowell) is a British Superhero, who appeared in the Science fiction Comic 2000 AD. The Lloigor are a Fictional race in the Cthulhu Mythos. The beings first appeared However, they appear somewhat different from the Cthulhu Mythos entities. In the comic strip, the many-angled ones have a dastardly plan to impose rigid geometrical order on the whole universe, essentially reducing it to a clockwork. [1]
The many-angled ones exist in a space with more dimensions than our own; hence, they appear to be many angled. As a result, when they manifest in our universe they appear as disconnected floating body parts of some larger beast that is complete in the higher dimension (similar to how a three dimensional being would appear in flatland as its parts pass through the plane of that two-dimensional world). For other uses see Flatland (disambiguation Flatland A Romance of Many Dimensions is an 1884 Science fiction
More recently, the many-angled ones were mentioned in Charles Stross's The Atrocity Archives. Charles David George "Charlie" Stross (born Leeds, 18 October 1964 is a writer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. The Atrocity Archives (2004 ISBN 1-930846-25-8 contains two stories by British author Charles Stross, consisting of the short novel The Atrocity Archive This work features the usual appearances by "nameless horrors of the abyss", which may or may not be many-angled ones. The beings were referenced in the DC comic book Hitman, which briefly featured demons called "The Multi-Angled ones". DC Comics is an American comic book and related media company A comic book (often shortened to simply comic and sometimes called a comic paper or comic magazine) is a Magazine or Book of narrative Hitman is a violent darkly humorous sentimental and occasionally romantic Comic book published by DC Comics, written by Garth Ennis and illustrated
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- ^ Timothy Callahan (2007). Grant Morrison: The Early Years. Lulu. com, 5. ISBN 0615140874.
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