… that is shockingly specific.
Excellent comparison, I can’t belive I didn’t think of that!
one of my old bosses’ Religious Studies speciality was cults related to aliens & alien abductions. he was a world expert
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started reading a chinese comic called city of darkness. it’s an incredibly chuuni story about swordfighting gangsters, set in kowloon. it’s like they specifically made a comic for me!
of course, it sucks but i love it. shame those experiments from the early 00s in printing translated chinese comics in english didn’t really pan out, i’d love to have physical volumes of this
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am off sick, read Moore/Burrows Providence collection
ding ding ding
final chapter is a bit mushy but it’s tying up the other two HPL things they’ve done. odd stylistic choice to make the final 6-10 pages of each issue be long-hand prose from the protagonist’s diary-notebook. but it works great to show mental fragility when he describes how he interpreted some event that was also shown in panels & you see how he elides the sanity-challenging horror
there’s the winking references to most all of HPL’s works, but as someone whose main exposure to the Cthulhu Mythos is “playing Quake” and “reading Chaosium bestiaries” I got to miss it all. good. tho I did recognise Re-Animator
watch out for the Moore thing of making ‘unspeakable rites’ mostly be sexual assaults
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I loved Providence. It’s the worst part of the series, but did you read Neonomicon? That’s technically the first part of Providence.
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neonomicon is just four issues of alan moore masturbating, but providence is excellent
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I did not read Neonomicon. I did just read the plot synopsis, how is it so many pages for 4 issues
Moore’s imagination is so limited, it’s just monotonous at this point
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The Courtyard comes before Neonomicon.
The Courtyard is legitimately cool. Neonomicon has one and a half good issues (mostly because of all the Lovecraft pun band name and porn titles). Then some gross stuff happens and the story takes two more issues to get to where you already know it’s going to go.
I haven’t checked out Providence yet, but I want to so I can figure out what the hell is up with those domes. When it was originally coming out I was kind of in fool me once mode after Neonomicon though.
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it’s a throwaway from “The Color Out of Space” pastiche, the FBI agent investigating the not-Arkham crash site says they’ll need domes to protect cities from similar attacks if a state works out how to reverse-engineer the blighting properties of the meteorite
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That’s pretty rad! Probably a relief for the colorist too that those keep The Color out of view.
When Neonomicon was first coming out I was scouring the internet for fan theories about the domes and no one knew what the hell was up with them. I’ve been in suspense for like twelve years.
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Speaking of that creative team, there’s a trade of Moore’s run on Crossed at the used book store. No one’s going to go to suggest I should read that, right?
is that crossed +100?
despite being both a crossed story and written by alan moore, it’s actually surprisingly light on the sexual violence, as i remember it. it’s set a century after the initial appearance of the crossed, in a world that’s in the process of rebuilding civilisation.
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That’s the one! The post-post-apocalyptic angle seemed interesting.
Crossed+100 is really nice! I also found it more original and well paced than the original Crossed.
Providence is fantastic, and I agree that Neonomicon is mediocre.
Speaking of Moore, what do you guys think of Promethea? I tried to read it a few times, but after a few volumes I end up forgetting about it, because it’s a bit boring…
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A coworker recommended Promethea to me a few months ago and brought me the whole series to read, and I’ve been slowly making my way through it. It’s taking me a while because reading it feels kind of like work. (This is because of lots of low-contrast tiny print on glossy pages as well as the story itself.) It’s a little too close to a superhero thing for my taste, but I like seeing the different environments the characters visit and it’s impressive how much work went into the story and the art.
Providence was better than some of the other Lovecraft stuff I’ve come across, but it broke one of my personal rules for “mythos” stories: never refer directly to Lovecraft, have him as a character, imply that his stories were in some way true and that he had secret knowledge of the universe, etc. I get irrationally annoyed at that sort of thing after seeing it so many times and I’m afraid it colored my opinion here.
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Regarding Promethea, I had the same feeling but I only realized when you wrote it: too much of a superhero thing with similar kinds of problems, premises, mechanics.
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I managed to get F by Imai Arata. I spent a bit ober 30 euro and had the Dutch shop deliver it to a friend of mine in Amsterdam. When he gets back to Italy he will deliver it to me.
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I just so happened to have a text conversation about Promethea last night with that friend who recommended that Eden manga minutes before it popped up in this thread. I think she might be god.
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