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Alan Moore's Neonomicon

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Depraved Bisexual: All of the Dagon cultists qualify, participating in the sex ritual regardless of gender. The cult leader's wife takes her own turn raping Agent Brears. Bigger Is Better in Bed: Played With. The Dagon cultists react positively to the size of the Deep One's penis, but Brears finds it painful after a while. Tor.com comics blogger Tim Callahan has dedicated the next twelve months more than a year to a reread of all of the major Alan Moore comics (and plenty of minor ones as well). Each week he will provide commentary on what he’s been reading. Welcome to the 63 rd installment.

In a rare, and somewhat inexplicable, non-Lovecraft one, when Johnny Carcosa confronts the police he's dressed exactly like Edward Elric of all people. May have something to do with the fact Lovecraft wrote a story called The Alchemist as a lad. The leg armor on the asylum guards also looks suspiciously similar to the armor plating on Ed's artificial leg. The comic book adaptation was planned to appear in Alan Moore's Yuggoth Cultures and Other Growths, but it was published as a limited series by Avatar in January and February 2003. Abhorrent Admirer: Despite raping her constantly, the Deep One does seem to care about Brears, helping her escape when he learns that she is pregnant. It's implied that this is just how his species naturally reproduces, and he was unaware that Brears was in distress until she actively called him on it.

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The ex-fed protagonist of The Courtyard sits in a mental institution, babbling in Aklo, three murders to his name. Two other agents, Brears (she) and Lamper (him), are part of a case investigating what the hell happened. Neonomicon plays all of this totally straight, to the extent that it can; not only is the tone and patter of something like The Wire a fine counterpoint to the portentous stirrings of Lovecraft, but “procedural” is also a great synonym for “exposition.” Brears herself lays out the Lovecraftian connections in the case for the uninitiated (Lamper, that is –but also those amongst the readership who don’t know Cthulhu from Derleth). Brears and Lamper’s case takes them to a small-town Massachusetts sex shop –cum-occult bookstore, and from there to what could aptly and literally be described as a swingers’ party from Hell. As far as content goes, Avatar has never really had any limits, from scatological comedy to outright pornography. That said, Neonomicon is possibly its most extreme series yet, and it’s middle section contains extended rape scenes as gruesome and horrible as the likes of I Spit on Your Grave. The sexual politics of this are a discussion for another blog, but the facts can’t be separated from the story: #2 features Brears’ gang rape by a group of deranged cultists; #3 by a fish-man monster they’ve been keeping from the world. So where the hell can #4 go from there? Here we are, in the end, with Neonomicon. Alan Moore’s last significant comic book work, other than the follow-up chapters of the larger League of Extraordinary Gentlemen saga. And by the end of “The Courtyard,” the narrator—whose name turns out to be Aldo Sax, which I don’t think is mentioned in the story itself—has revealed himself to be one of the murderers himself, ritually carving the bodies of his victims in the manner of the killers he’s been pursuing. Or maybe it’s been him all along, committing these murders. His madness is palpable, and the truth is obscured. In that previous andcomparatively tame episode, a federal agent investigating a strange and seemingly unconnected series of ritualistic murders is given a phantasmagoric introduction to the secret language Aklo, which naturally precipitates his own downfall. No heroic struggle against an anthropomorphized demon that can be overcome like an exceptionally violent geometry exam. As Warren Ellis put it in one of the editorials accompanying his Avatar series with Burrows, Scars: “Horror’s when you realize there is nowhere to run.” Dramatic Deadpan: Agent Brears uses this when she visits Sax for the second time. Seeing as how she's using it to inform him that her partner was killed by the Dagon cultists, who went on to gang-rape her and turn her over to a Deep One, who raped her repeatedly, in the process of which she became impregnated with C'thulhu, but she's decided that humans are basically "vermin" so she's more or less okay with the impending death of the species, the effect is terrifying. Sax himself is terrified.

She (my 14-year-old) came into my living room and asked me what a certain word meant, and I said, ‘Honey, where did you hear that word?’ I said, ‘That’s a nasty word. We don’t use that in the house,” mother Carrie Gaske told local news broadcaster WSPA in June. Gaske went on to file a challenge to the novel over its “sexually graphic” images. Faux Affably Evil: The Dagon cultists. While they initially appear to be just eccentric folk with weird fetishes who enjoy secret orgies (and who grin too much), they ultimately come off as more repugnant than the Mythos beings the protagonists meet. Moore’s story is not just a tribute to Lovecraft’s work, it’s a kind of post-mortem weaving together of some of Lovecraft’s disparate tales. Moore ties the kidnappings described in “Horror at Red Hook” into the Cthulhu monstrosities of his more famous stories.

Cryptic Conversation: During Brears's drug-induced dream as the creature is raping her, Johnny Carcosa tells her, "What thith ith, ith you're a nun, thee, Asian, merry." Brears doesn't understand this at the time ("I'm not Asian"), but after thinking about it later, she realizes what he'd actually said: "What this is, is your annunciation, Mary." Rape as Drama: A deeply disquieting look at the "blasphemous rites" Lovecraft talks about in his works. Nobody Poops: Germaine defecates in a sink (off-panel, but the feces is shown), and Brears urinates by the side of the pool while in captivity (on-panel). The latter becomes plot-relevant when the Deep One smells (and tastes) her urine, and discovers that she's pregnant. Adaptational Wimp: The Deep One again. He is portrayed as being unable to talk with Agent Brears, while in Lovecraft, Deep Ones were highly intelligent and sophisticated creatures that had no trouble negotiating complex treaties with humans. However, he does manage some limited communication with Brears after she's had enough of his forced intercourse, and his ability to detect her pregnancy and his willingness to not just help her escape but also exact vengeance on the cultists imply Hidden Depths (pun intended). Darker and Edgier: The story takes the works of H.P Lovecraft to some very dark places that even Lovecraft himself danced around or demurred from going to. Let that sink in for a moment.

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