The Courtyard was one character - Aldo Sax - while Neonomicon is two characters - Brears and Lamper - so we get double the panels, two in the first, four in the second? It is extremely graphic and the naked cultists are not hot either so gear up if you’re going to read this! in the last third of the novel there is a truly grotesque rape scene which also includes rape-by-monster. First edition in book form, limited issue, one of only 200 copies signed by Moore and Burrows on a tipped-in leaf and with a different cover design from the hardback trade issues. Lovecraft would probably smile (malevolently) at Moore's and Burrow's execution (well, multiple executions, as it turns out, no surprise.

FBI agents Lamper and Brears visit Aldo Sax at a psychiatric hospital, where he has been detained since committing two murders. Comic s legend Alan Moore (Watchmen, V for Vendetta) and artist Jacen Burrows deliver a chilling tale of Lovecraftian horror!

So this is not scarier than Poe, but it is grittier, more graphic, more explicit, more contemporary urban. I wouldn’t recommend the book though; besides being ploddingly paced, overly long and dull to read, it leaves an unpleasant taste behind once you’ve read it, akin to walking into a bathroom after someone’s taken an epic shit and getting the smell full on. I’m just gonna tell you what the book’s about, how Moore uses the act of rape in it, and what I got from it. To use it for shock and very rarely address ramifications is demeaning, it takes away the shock and the power of the act that we need to address in our society and just makes it a cheap plot device. The Courtyard was presented in vertical panels, mostly two to a page, while Neonomicon is almost entirely presented in horizontal panels, mostly four to a page.

Spoiler, although who cares because don't read this: What if "R'lyeh under the waters" didn't mean under the literal ocean but instead inside a uterus. It’s impressive how Neonomicon continued the Lovecraftian mythos canon in an almost perfect, and nearly meta way, reinterpreting the original works into a modern context while remaining true to the spirit of Lovecraft’s original stories.

here on Goodreads, reviews are mixed; many readers have reacted very negatively to all of the horrific nastiness on display. Probably one of the first graphic novels I've ever read that made me stop in the middle of it and ask myself whether I wanted, for my sanity and tastes sake, to carry on, I'm so very glad I did. If this tale had been more hallucinogenic like his work on Promethea or Swamp Thing, it could have been much better. I really couldn't have enjoyed this graphic novel more, it was strange and captivating and has started what I'm sure will become an obsession with graphic novels! An FBI agent is staking out a neighborhood where a series of brutal ghastly murders have taken place.