If the tedious investigation that takes up most of the book, along with the dreadful dialogue and idiotic characters didn’t make me dislike the comic, the repeated rape of one of the characters and the excessive full frontal nudity did it.

It’s also worth saying that there are stories about Moore doing Neonomicon because he was short of money but, even if that was the case, what Neonomicon demonstrates in spades is that, even if his heart isn’t entirely in it, Moore is still able to fashion a thrilling horror story when he turns his mind to it. Here, following up from The Courtyard, two FBI Agents (one of them a former Sex Addict, something that is brought up again and again but yet I find little to no reason for it to be there, it feels like a simple one-line description of a character, no depth, no 3rd dimension, that's all she ever is) find themselves investigating a Lovecraft-Inspired Sex Cult. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

It is dark gem, worth a read for the art and ideas expressed within, but it IS a unpleasant, torrid tale, that makes one feel unclean and uncomfortable afterward. After studying the previous investigation of Sax, Lamper and Brears decide to track down drug dealer Johnny Carcosa in Red Hook, Brooklyn. The art doesn't shy away from the subject matter except for when one character is blissfully without her contact lenses (and some of the frames are blurry); this is not for the faint of heart and this is not a case of good winning over evil, where you may feel the violence is justified. Wow, this is a book about a woman who struggles with sex addiction being locked in a room and sexually assaulted by a monster over the course of a week, which solves all her problems. And there's a creepy dude with a veil over his mouth, who is hinted to be the human guise of one of the Elder Gods.

Neonomicon registers for me, in the main, as the Moore/Burrows collaboration where Burrows really comes into his own – the art here is detailed in the same way that, say, Geof Darrow’s art is in his Frank Miller collab Hard Boiled). One unusual aspect of the story is that the characters actually notice these references and this figures into the story. 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. The result is a terrifying murder mystery culminating in a survival horror story that is NOT for the faint of heart.celebrated genius Alan Moore's graphic novel was, per the author's own admission, done for a paycheck and so that's that. Moore does manage to score a few points in the end with his own interpretation on Lovecraft’s stories but they don’t make reading the preceding comic feel worth it. The mind-melting effect that the Alko language seems it would have upon the human consciousness has precedent in Lovecraftian work. STORY: FBI Agents Sax, Lamper, and Brears are enveloped by a mystery connected to a serial killer who turns his victims into grotesque flowers sculptures. This leads to a stunning realization in the climax when the two are discussing the concept of time where it’s revealed this child she is bearing is revealed to be the old god Cthulhu itself, which has insane potential ramifications for the sequel, Providence.

I have read a fuckload of Lovecraft, but I think the most impressive fact about it is how Alan Moore illustrates the framework that forms the Lovecraft cosmology. But what’s clear is that FBI and the Paranormal are a great storytelling combination which works as good as bread and butter! While "graphic novel" does not always mean the content is violent or sexual and refers to the content being graphical, in this case, the content includes drugs, sex, violence, violent sex, violent drugs, mythical beings causing some of these elements, it's all in there.At the very least his writing shows neither an understanding of, nor desire to engage with the feminine sex, and the only hinted worth for the female form seems to have been as (unwilling?