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A review by adamskiboy528491
Alan Moore's Neonomicon by Alan Moore, Jacen Burrows
3.0
Neonomicon by Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows continues the narrative of his 1994 short story The Courtyard, which was converted into a comic in 2003.
The comic tells the story of FBI agents Brears and Lamper, who are sent to continue the investigation of the occult murders that had been happening in The Courtyard. They uncover everything that previously happened exceptionally quickly. Then things take a turn for the worse. In another interview, Moore stated that he intended to do the exact opposite of Lovecraft's usual “fear of the unknown” trope by showing everything (in the most graphic detail possible) regarding the "nameless rituals" and "blasphemous rites" that the author only ever alluded to. As such, the comic contains numerous explicit (some might say pornographic) sex scenes, nearly all of which involve inter-species rape.
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. 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.
The comic tells the story of FBI agents Brears and Lamper, who are sent to continue the investigation of the occult murders that had been happening in The Courtyard. They uncover everything that previously happened exceptionally quickly. Then things take a turn for the worse. In another interview, Moore stated that he intended to do the exact opposite of Lovecraft's usual “fear of the unknown” trope by showing everything (in the most graphic detail possible) regarding the "nameless rituals" and "blasphemous rites" that the author only ever alluded to. As such, the comic contains numerous explicit (some might say pornographic) sex scenes, nearly all of which involve inter-species rape.
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. 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.