Alan Moore's Neonomicon

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Gieben, Bram (1 September 2010). "Choose Your Reality: Alan Moore Unearthed". The Skinny . Retrieved 24 March 2011. Like Reality, Unless Noted: The comics take place around the time they were written but lots of the technology and other things are more advanced, or at least... different. In addition to the aforementioned domes all of the phone booths have built-in fax machines, Louis Farrakhan has a holiday named after him, Bill Clinton declared war on Syria in the mid-1990s, and the US dollar has recently undergone a revaluation. Cast Full of Gay: About half the male characters who appear in the story act as potential love interests for Robert. Neonomicon#3 leads off with an FBI interview as the crew tries to find their missing two agents, Brears and Lamper. And we get a peek into the double-layer that seems to be thematic in this series now. Is this a bleak, unbearable way to end the “reread” portion of “The Great Alan Moore Reread”? Probably. But it’s all we have. Until next time!

There's also a fair few homages to Moore's earlier work. Robert's free association nightmare filled with allusions to Nazism recalls the one experienced by Swamp Thing, with its "Plain, Aryan Worms" at the beginning of Moore's career-making run after he learned he wasn't really Alec Holland. The ending also resembles Watchmen's, featuring somebody holding a book written by one of the main characters that has the potential to undo the far-reaching, tentacle monster-related changes the world has undergone. Unlike Watchmen, however, Perlman ultimately decides it's not worth it, tears the book up and throws it in a river. Hali, the author of the "Booke of the Wisdom of the Stars", is described as the pseudonym of Khalid ibn Yazid , an actual, and highly obscure, figure in medieval alchemy. In Moore's fashion, he is the mirror and parallel for Abdul Alhazred, the author of the Necronomicon. 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. Bowdlerize: While the series doesn't shy away from discussing Lovecraft's infamous racial hang-ups, as is often the case with Lovecraft adaptations, the Deep One's design has been altered to conform to modern sensibilities. While the originals were described as flabby-lipped and bulgy-eyed, invoking comparisons to golliwog caricatures, the Deep One here is drawn with a lipless, sunken-eyed visage, looking like nothing so much as a humanoid coelacanth ( which, you have to admit, looks a whole lot cooler).Now about the "terrible and forbidden books"—I am forced to say that most of them are purely imaginary. There never was any Abdul Alhazred or Necronomicon, for I invented these names myself. Robert Bloch devised the idea of Ludvig Prinn and his De Vermis Mysteriis, while the Book of Eibon is an invention of Clark Ashton Smith's. Robert E. Howard is responsible for Friedrich von Junzt and his Unaussprechlichen Kulten.... As for seriously-written books on dark, occult, and supernatural themes—in all truth they don't amount to much. That is why it's more fun to invent mythical works like the Necronomicon and Book of Eibon. [4] Issue 9 is lighter as well, serving as a calmer (although still eerie) beginning to the final act of the story. Robert mentions that it's his most pleasant part of the journey so far: having pleasant conversation, touring Providence, and even getting laid. The Hero Dies: Ashamed at the role he played in the upcoming apocalypse, Robert opts to commit suicide in the penultimate issue. Effeminate Misogynistic Guy: Robert is unflinchingly polite in his day to day life but makes disparaging remarks about nearly every female character in the story in his journal.

Joshi, S. T.; David E. Schultz (2001). An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-31578-7. Moore's quintessential Superman story. Though it has not aged as well as some of his work, this comic is still one of the best Man of Steel stories ever written, and one of the most memorable comics in DC's canon. Her daughter had borrowed the book from the adult section of the library, using an adult card, according to WSPA. A committee then voted to keep the book on shelves, WSPA reported, but their decision has been overruled by the library’s executive director Beverly James, who “did not feel the book’s content was appropriate for the library system’s collection”. Foil: Willard Wheatley states that in the Redeemer story there has to be "thuh crazy granpappy, un' thuh whaht-faced wummun, un' thuh bad-lookin' bwoy". As rivals in competing the prophecy, Garland Wheatley and Whipple Van Buren Phillips are the crazy grandfathers, Sarah Lovecraft (who used arsenic face-whitening powder) and the albino Leticia are the white-faced women, and H.P. Lovecraft (who is called hideous by his mother) is set against the monstrous Willard and John Divine. But despite this the families are heavily contrasting, considering Sarah and Howard's ignorance of the supernatural, the Lovecraft's urban and the Wheatley's rural character, and their responses to economic and social struggle. By issue 7 Robert is clearly in denial about his experiences, and suppresses memories he cannot handle. He interprets Pitman's explanation of the Wade's power as illusions. He additionally convinces himself that his experience with King George was self-hypnosis, despite clearly glimpsing and smelling the ghoul.

Since this series occurs in the same universe as Neonomicon, it appears that in-universe H.P. Lovecraft discovered the various supernatural phenomenon featured here and then wrote at least some of his stories about them, changing the names.

Happens again in Issue 11 where the narrative travels almost 80 years to the time period of Neonomicon. Bizarro Apocalypse: As noted above, The Elder Gods of H. P. Lovecraft come to Earth in the last two issues, resulting in a slow and steady breakdown of reality itself. Nightmarish creatures stalk the streets, the landscape changes into impossible configurations, and humanity adjusts to this new world with a resigned weariness, knowing that their previous life was a dream and this new nightmare is now the everyday. Immortality Immorality: Suydam and Dr North are heavily implied to have killed people in their attempts to gain further life, and Etienne Roulet has been stealing people's bodies for centuries, of which only the most recent is Elspeth. Jacen Burrows, meanwhile, remains one of the unsung heroes of comics. His choice of material and loyalty to a small-press publisher mean that he’ll never move beyond a niche appeal (probably), but I can’t imagine anyone better suited for this story. Remember the talk of “tallscreen” versus “widescreen” a couple paragraphs ago? Here, he goes wide, and his fine line and eye for detail fill those frames as if they were stills from a film. That’s what we want in a story like this, about a vertex where a “real” world might collide with mad, bad and dangerous mysticism. Burrows is the midpoint between the psychedelic tranquility of Frank Quitely and the stiff-yet-understated eyeball-twitch of classic Ditko. Another artist would drape the whole thing in murky shadow and let us tease out terrifying little wiggles of detail. That’s the lazy way, the cliche. Burrows shows us every stain on the tile. Papoutsakis, Nefeli (2009). Desert Travel as a Form of Boasting: A Study of D̲ū R-Rumma's Poetry. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. p.60. ISBN 978-3447061124.Carcossa of volume 10 which having roughly the shape of a human (from one angle) looks like a superposition of every position he was in, and his mouth looks like a butthole. Dr. Alvarez note inspired by Dr. Muñoz of Cool Air in the first issue uses the second method by chilling himself.