cool name and creepy writer--what's not to like?

and; OUCH at the bris knife!

BTW, I tried the can opener thing--worked like a charm!

Wouldn't it have been awesome if Cancer had just happened to be in the WTC in 9/11?

Cthulu is FSM's cousin.

1.) It's a fun name to say, with bonus ironic-hipster points for sounding like a gothy foreign language.
2.) The octopus mouth is oddly entrancing?

I dunno man, Cthulhu is just funny.

The similarities with FSM are obvious, and I figured it was just some sort of hipster meme. But it just seems so bizarre. I never heard of Cthulu until maybe 5 years ago when I started seeing him everywhere. It's just strange that an obscure character from so long ago was revived. I'm curious what the catalyst was. I suppose you could make the same observation with any meme. I'm not even sure Cthulhu rises to the level of a meme.

Oh, I'd heard of Cthulhu before then. He was a funny joke for my group of friends at least as far back as high school (1997ish.) Maybe it's less that the meme itself came out of nowhere, and more that the group of people who had already attached to it came of age and started posting crap on the internet. :)

So I guess just because I hadn't heard of Cthulhu doesn't mean the character was obscure.

Generations re-discover Lovecraft and think he's cool; this generation just happens to be the Internet one.

Well, but it's different, because you have to factor in the irony. Anne Rice is having a little mini-popularity-boost, because of Twilight, all of which is popular with kids who really think vampires are cool and are re-discovering all of it. Cthulhu, on the other hand, is popular with people who think it's funny to fill their baby's mouth with spaghetti and photoshop the eyes to make him look like Cthulhu, not people who are genuinely snuggling up with Lovecraft books and appreciating them.

Cthulu was big with the Role-playing community beest hung around with 20 years ago iirc

I think we found our answer. It was D&D. That explains it all. I'm surprised I wasn't aware of it then.

check for traps, dude.

Looks more like a mind flayer to me.