Name: Neonomicon
Rating: 3.333333333333333 (9 reviews)
ISBN: 9781592911301

Alan Moore

Antony Johnston

Jacen Burrows

Neonomicon

Tim Pendry

Ah, you want dark ... this is dark. Well within the spirit of the Lovecraftian tradition and an added dash of American FBI TV drama with serial killer characteristics. Alan Moore even gets in a bit of Kenneth Grant on the side. However, since many of you in America have more of a problem with sex than gory violence, be warned ... this is a work of sexual horror with explicit scenes of truly unpleasant sexual violence. The scene of reptilian jissum flying through a wide arc as the FBI heroine jerks off the monster to save herself from yet another rape is not for the faint-hearted. There is a certain Sadean quality to one long section. Moore is, as he gets older, increasingly interested in the sexual imagination and it is not unconnected to his interest in magick. For him, magick is creating something out of nothing and extreme sexual imagination is magick. From Promethea through Lost Girls to this, the intensity grows but it is an honest intensity that should disturb the reader not as wrong or sick but as an expression of the wild capabilities of the full imagination. There is also a genuine twist to the usual Lovecraftian story line that any aficionado of the horror genre will pick up as a borrowing from another trope of demonic literature (no spoilers here). Let us just say that hybridisation is a theme that turns back on itself as the hybridisation of literary memes into new creative activity. This graphic novel is genuinely horrific and far from 'adolescent'. Moore is also well served by the classic comic book style of Jacen Burrows which captures the Lovecraftian iconography of the tale well. Recommended but with the standard caveat that it is for mature minds only.

Dennis Jacob Rosenfeld

Loved the artwork. The story started out really moody and capturing the essence of Lovecraft in a wonderful way. Unfortunately it devolved and ended up wildly derivative which is really a shame. The lettering annoyed me to no end.

Konrad Lischka

Julian Sánchez Ostiz Lange

Jasmine

Kayleigh hughes

Alan Moore, the best-selling graphic novelist of all time, delivers an original, chilling tale of Lovecraftian horror! Comic book legend Alan Moore (WATCHMEN, FROM HELL) and brilliant artist Jacen Burrows deliver a chilling tale of Lovecraftian horror! Brears and Lamper, two young and cocky FBI agents, investigate a fresh series of ritual murders somehow tied to the final undercover assignment of Aldo Sax –the once golden boy of the Bureau, now a convicted killer and inmate of a maximum security prison. From their interrogation of Sax (where he spoke exclusively in inhuman tongues) to a related drug raid on a seedy rock club rife with arcane symbols and otherworldly lyrics, they suspect that they are on the trail of something awful… but nothing can prepare them for the creeping insanity and unspeakable terrors they will face in the small harbor town of Innsmouth. NEONOMICON collects Alan Moore’s 2010 comic book series for the first time in its entirety – including his original story, THE COURTYARD, which chronicled Aldo Sax’s tragic encounter with the (somewhat) mortal agents of the Old Ones!

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