Alan Moore's Neonomicon

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Alan Moore’s Neonomicon is a follow up to his earlier work, The Courtyard, which is included in this trade edition.

In other words, they are well rounded horror story characters, just not the sweeping fully realized characterizations we are used to seeing in Moore’s writing. I did wonder what the point was for the character having a ‘sex addiction’, but it ties in to events later in the story following a brutal and grotesque rape scene that involves not only gang-rape, but also rape by a Lovecraftian monster – I say scene, but actually these are events that are played out in graphic detail throughout a huge swathe of the book. Not sure how much that was needed as it doesn't add anything to the character and it's only briefly brushed as a hate toward herself. A liteary critique of both the artist and his work which comes off more like school-yard bullying than anything else.The art is vivid, and the first part of the story is all in long narrow frames that lend a late-at-night, don't-look-under-the-bed feeling to the story. However, it is also gruesome and nasty, and there are many who will be repulsed by the scenes depicted within. The story has lots of nudity, gratuitous wierd sex and a pivotal inter-species rape sequence that will always be burned into the readers mind.

It’s genuinely impressive how Neonomicon connected various of the mythos’ story themes well, while also masterfully explaining concepts left vague in the original writings without losing the horrific mood. A sequel to his geniunely chilling and enjoyable short story The Courtyard, inspired by a poem in Lovecraft's Fungi From Yuggoth cycle, Neonomicon takes the worst excesses of something like the New French Extremity movement in French cinema, where outrageous or disturbing subject matter is plastered indiscriminately across the narrative from beginning to end under the guise of moralistic grandstanding, and applies this to the comics medium, resulting in a work that's miserable to look at, miserable to read. Lovecraft, at most, would go “And the lady saw the horror before her, and sometime later, she was found pregnant. If you are of the conservative type or easily grossed out with sick mature themes of gore, sex and violence, skip this book. I wouldn’t recommend the book though; besides being ploddingly paced, overly long and dull to read, it leaves an unpleasant taste behind once you’ve read it, akin to walking into a bathroom after someone’s taken an epic shit and getting the smell full on.It's embarrassingly cliche to pit the young outcasts as evil cultists, and is part of why I found Issue 1 so unlikable. And most of the third chapter is occupied with Fish-Monster/FBI Agent rape (plus a hand job), which honestly feels gratuitous and seems to be that the story itself is obsessed with the squeamish approach to sexuality in Lovecraft's work. Neonomicon is (arguably) the second book in a loose trilogy (there is no indication of a relationship between this book and either The Courtyard or Providence, at least on the edition I have) and (also arguably, given a good case for From Hell) up there with the nastiest of Moore’s books (although there are parts of Providence that give Neonomicon a good run for its money). After reading Neonomicon, I began to look back on all the Alan Moore I've read and how much rape as plot device or rape as threat to female character is used.

Neonomicon is the sequel to Antony Johnston and Jacen Burrows’ graphic adaptation of Alan Moore’s The Courtyard, a short story by Moore from the ‘90s. Allan Moore attempts to explain how the Great Old Ones could possible be both dead yet eternally sleeping and dreaming. After that, maybe you can make the choice to either read it or make sure you never lay hands on this. At the very least his writing shows neither an understanding of, nor desire to engage with the feminine sex, and the only hinted worth for the female form seems to have been as (unwilling? There are some strong ideas in it, but on the whole I found the experience of reading it stomach-turning and entirely without joy.STORY: FBI Agents Sax, Lamper, and Brears are enveloped by a mystery connected to a serial killer who turns his victims into grotesque flowers sculptures.