Which is kind of the point, I would suppose, in the same way that the lengthy and uncomfortable violation of the heroine in I Spit On Your Grave absolutely should be difficult to sit through because without it, the third act of the film - centering on her revenge - would lose most of its power.

By this point a small “buzz” was starting to form around the work, but Moore lost a lot of readers along the way due to the brutal, uncompromising, and frankly ugly nature of the story - which included, among other things, a protracted and decidedly disturbing rape sequence that’s as hard to stomach on its tenth reading as it is on its first. This was followed up a few years later with The Neonomicon, a four-part mini-series directly from the pen of Moore himself with Burrows returning to handle the artistic reigns.

First came The Courtyard, a one-shot based on Moore’s short prose story of the same name that was adapted into comics form by writer Antony Johnston and artist Jacen Burrows. Lovecraft that’s been flying well beneath the radar for a number of reasons - chief among them being, most likely, that they’re being put out by small independent publisher Avatar Press. I just hope somebody’s paying attention.įor some time now, Alan Moore has been piecing together a cycle of stories based around themes and concepts from the works of H.P. It’s been a long time, hasn’t it? But I promise you this much : here, in 2015, it’s happening again - finally. Members of my generation felt it when we grabbed book one of Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns and, just a handful of months later, Watchmen #1, hot off the comic store shelves in the annus mirabilis of 1986.

As do those who picked up Jack Kirby’s New Gods #1 on the newsstands (even though, technically speaking, the Fourth World mythos had already been introduced to the world in the pages of Superman’s Pal, Jimmy Olsen). Fellow comics readers - do you remember that feeling of being in on the ground floor of something not just great, but truly monumental? Folks who were around for Fantastic Four #1 and the dawn of the so-called “Marvel Age Of Comics” talk about it a lot.

Neonomicon and providence