What A Night!

>What A Night!

Robert Black has met his fate.
The Herald has served his purpose.
And received the Haunter of the Dark.
Nothing can stop the tides now...

This is-
Providence #11 (Act III, Scene III)

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According to Moore, these last two issues are more like an epilogue.

No journal entries.

I do love the blatant symbolism that Burrows and Moore add to the art.

All of our friends!

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Well, can't pass up a recommendation from Moore

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Just finished it. Holy fuckballs; Moore, you absolute madman.

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I'm so glad the time skip hasn't happened yet.

It wouldn't be Lovecraft without a disheveled shell of a man

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Burrows, fuck.

He has gone up so much in my estimation with this series.
Every shot of Robert's face is perfect.

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Haha, damn Freddy Dix.

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Robert Black
Robert Bloch
Robert Blake

...hope it helps.

IT'S HAPPENING.

It's an old method.

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Oh yes.

I'm so glad that we got to see the Dunwich Crew in action.

>Darby

Perfect.

>this kills the annotators

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I'm only getting about 60%
And that's mainly the stories and a few of the Letters Circle.

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That was a variant!

They reused the variant!

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This is perfect.
This is so fucking perfect.

The book, of course, Robert wrote down the binding spells in it.

The man with the ruined hand on the bridge wasn't Robert.
It's Carl. Either he fails and destroys it, or succeeds and destroys it.

It's classic plot set up.
It's Dunwich revisited.

#12 is going to be nuts.

Also, I guess, the transition into Neonomicon kinda makes the entire journey sort of worth it.

It kinda starts to redeem that book

I felt the ball on redemption started rolling once we started seeing all of the various Covens in Providence.
And how far from the mark the Dagon Cult was.

But the transition nails it for me, including the slight change in art style.

Fuck yeah man. I am so fucking psyched to have this in my hands and watch the world burn around me.

It really is perfectly toned all the way through.

Robert's story, even his suicide, conforms to all genre conventions.
Including the ambiguous nature of hope.

bump

How difficult would it have been to draw the RI license plate? It's literally just a few squiggles.

Any what's happening on panel 3 and 4?

3 for this one

1 for this

I think I get all the others

>3 and 4
Herbert West's Assistant being stalked by the Zombies.
Tom Malone casing out Suydam.

>3
The Silver Key

>1
Brown Jenkin's body being discovered in the rubble of the Witch House

Ah, right. Thanks m8

Hell of an issue this was. Guess now all bets are off on how this thing is going to end

This has to be one of the top series out there. There's just so damn much here and I bet they could write a whole book just trying to explain all these references.

does anyone have link to previous issues please and thank you

>erasing Lovecraft's fevered imagination and rabid creativity
>and then turning him into a hackneyed, needy non-fiction writer

Even for Moore, that's pretty cruel. This never would have happened if Howard had been a woman or a person of color.

lol

Nyarlathotep Blowjob!

WOOOOOOOOO!!!

I'm a bit confused

It could go either way.
There are stories that provide tones that work for either path.

The montage time skip reminds me a lot of how From Hell and LOEG are jam packed even in the slightest way.

About which?

I'm surprised a dog was able to kick his ass so thoroughly.

His mixed species made him weaker...like his weirdly put together body was easy pickings.

Ah, shit. We're back here.

I hope he'll eventually get work from publishers that are not Avatar Press....I mean it's not like him and Moore will ever work together again.

The Lovecraft stuff (including the non-canon story about Syphillis) was the only reason.

So yeah, hope so too.

Bad blood?

Nope.

Just that they haven't really paired up otherwise and Providence is the final cap on Lovecraft for Moore;.

Moore's qutting comics after LOEG Vol.4.

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> Derleth
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Jeez, was that eldrich blowjob really that bad?

RIP in peace Robert

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I bet the smiling girl on the first seat is the real danger in that car.

She's the Thing on the Doorstep witch

huh, which ruined hand?

>she

>huh, which ruined hand?

IIRC, in the last premonition that Robert had in his dreams (with the woman from Neonomicon in it) he saw a man with a withered hand holding a book with violet colored writing in it. Peering "defeated" over a bridge.
The book you might recognize as being the commonplace book with Black's violet ink.

And now we have Carl Perlman - who has a withered/ruined hand.

>crucified Cthulhu plushie

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there you are

how nice of them to get together one last time

>glasses are cracked

Of course

he's seen some stuff afterall

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I need to read more HPL to get all of the references but even then this has been an enjoyable ride. Poor Robert though, he suffered so much.

I thought for a second Wilbur was sitting alone but then I remembered his twin brother is fucking invisible.

>no act II hardcover
fuck you too, Avatar Press

Yep.

The only thing I would say doesn't match up across the Lovecraft books is that Providence is very much about this other world (perhaps only one of imagination, of potential existence) already existing and being just out of lockstep with reality until the right door or observer comes along. Whereas the Neonomicon is a less ambitious horror story and has the foetal Cthulhu in a kind of 'oh you just didn't predict it was gonna happen THIS way' twist ending. I don't think Moore had Providence exactly in mind when he wrote Neonomicon, or at least ideas were revised in getting there.

You can go from Neonomicon to Providence, but I don't think you can go from Providence to Neonomicon. If you imagine them published in different order. The Courtyard, I think you can go to and from either.

Poor Robert...

Anyone knows what's going on with the Crossed fundraiser?
It's been over two years and $50,000, and Avatar are acting like the whole thing never existed.
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Avatar literally has no money. They had to Kickstart one of their major titles to release it in Uber.

>I don't think Moore had Providence exactly in mind when he wrote Neonomicon

Pretty sure that's the case.

Originally Moore was asked to contribute a piece to a Lovecraftian anthology back in the 90s. He thought he'd write a series of small short stories based on Fungi From Yuggoth. Not just turning the poems into stories, but doing his own thing. For insance, his version of "the book" would revolve around him meeting Julius Schwarz, who showed him a scrapbook with lots of photos and personal memorabilia from famous authors he'd known, from Ray Bradbury to Lovecraft. "The Courtyard" was his version of, well, "the courtyard": But then Moore went and lost the manuscripts in the back seat of a taxi. Unable to recover them, he basically went like fuck it. Of the few pieces that survived he sent the courtyard to that anthology.

Then Anthony Johnson and Jacen Burrows did the Courtyard comic, with Moore's blessing. Years later Avatar asked Moore if he wanted to do something else with them, and he said he had a few ideas based off Courtyard he wanted to explore. Then Neonomicon happened. More years later, Providence kicks in, once again from Moore wanting to further explore some ideas he'd had in the last comic.

Also, with Providence, Moore has admitted to reading more Lovecraft and that by the time he was writing Providence he had gained more of an appreciation for what Lovecraft had done.

Something that I credit with why the tone in Providence is so spot on. Moore was able to see why it worked, when Neonomicon and Courtyard feel like bland, generic, affairs.

Neonomicon, I think, benefits greatly by being so sloppy and messily handled. Because of that most of it's main points easily fit onto Providence without seeming contradictory.

They're also releasing a third variant for the Act I hardcover.

They're scrambling badly.

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I can't wait to read this whole thing back to back.

Planning on running the whole of Moore's Lovecraft saga sometime around Christmas.

That includes:
That black and white story about Lovecraft's dad
Courtyard
Neonomicon
and this

Just to see how it flows

I bet they had a field day with this.

RIP poor lady in the records section.

I'd say that as well.

It's stunning how nicely Moore was able to place the fictional chronology of the stories with real life events.

That bottom panel is maybe the sickest joke in the whole series.

In what way?

I'm pretty sure Aldo didn't get to cut that guy's hand off and he feels sad about it.