Where were you when Moore redeemed himself?

Where were you when Moore redeemed himself?

Reading capeshit

Is Providence linking back to the rape-fish?

12 page montage/time skip in the last issue

Should I know that record?

It's an Al Jolson song.
Not important but thematically relevant.

Alright. These waits between issues make me forget a lot.
Like was the guy in the sewer with the severed head Re-Animator from the previous issue? I can't recall what he was doing in the comic.
Also I don't remember who that detective was.

Maybe a Providence Storytime will help

Moore lost me with Lost Girls.
Then he ruined me with Neonomicon.

Never again. I refuse.

>Like was the guy in the sewer with the severed head Re-Animator from the previous issue? I can't recall what he was doing in the comic.

He was doing Re-Animator stuff.
In the original short story the zombies take their revenge in their underground lab.

>Also I don't remember who that detective was.
The one from the Horror at Red Hook that Robert had a crush on

Ok. A lot of this issue felt like a epilogue and this is what happened with the various people I didn't recognize or Lovecraft stories I don't recall.
Still great issue and I plan on reading it all in a row when its all done.

It pretty much is.
Providence, at the core, was an adaptation of "The Haunter of the Dark" and that story ended with #10 when Robert met Nyarlathotep.

#11 and #12 are pretty much a two-part epilogue that serves to tie up Providence and Neonomicon.

>get to that occult sacrifice that had been previewed/leaked
>it's from a real world murder
Oh damn

Yeah, the whole focus on the rise of rampant hysteria and fanboyism is pretty apparent and I think has tinges of a sorta Jesus parallel.

Much like Jesus's apostles and the heir to his ministry, you have infighting between Barlow and Derleth, diminishing their value for commodity. Makes sense since Lovecraft is this messiah.

I guess there's a dark humor in that.

I'm interested where this goes. I don't think I have ever seen anything Lovecraftian where the supernatural becomes public knowledge. It's always one lone guy finding the crazy.

Not even Top Ten? Or Tom Strong?

Yeah, that's pretty unique in that regard, but it had to happen. Moore started something in Courtyard and it'd be lame if it didn't have this massive effect on the public.

I love that, after the events of Neonomicon, the FBI Director clearly did his research. Because why wouldn't you? You find a fictional 6ft lizard man...you do your goddamn occult research.

The issue also goes in a very classic direction with that, since Lovecraft had a penchant for ending stories with old men who has access to the proper binding spells. I think it could end vaguely happily.

You think pregnant fish raped lady will come up?

Jerusalem suuuuuuuuuuucked.

She was in the issue already.
Who do you think broke out Aldo Sax and the other three Head and Hand Killers?

It's clear that Yog-Sothoth appearing means that the Gate is opening...and that's pretty obvious what that means is going on with her right now.

>Yog-Sothoth appearing
What how did I miss that? Or was that just the weird growth the car was driving from?
>Aldo Sax and the other three Head and Hand Killers
I didn't pick up on that. I feel I didn't pick up on as much as I should from the issue.

Nope, the weird growth is Fungi. Leng is crossing over to the real world as the realities begin to merge.

Yog-Sothoth appears in the first panel on this page, right above Club Zothique. He is the door, and the key. So I place good money that pregnant FBI agent is giving birth right now.

And yeah, don't know how you missed that haha.
I can understand the other 3 though, since they only existed as barely cameos in Courtyard.

That's Yog-Sothoth? I thought he was a big tentacle spaghetti looking thing, not a pattern of energy balls.
I went back and looked. Is that her with her back turned away here

Yeah, that's Yog-Sothoth.
He appeared in the Issue #4 and that's how he looked like there as well.
People have sometimes conflated Lovecraft's descriptions of Yog-Sothoth's role in the pantheon as being similar to Kabbalah...and so Moore decided to base the design on the Tree of Life.

And yeah, that's her.

I see. She doesn't look pregnant there, so I assumed it wasn't her.

Well, her back is turned.

Throw a boat at the bitch! Never fails.

What will happen to Robert? Will he commit suicide after listening to the album?

He's dead.

Well after the jump to present day sure. But how did he go out?

Took the coward's way out, because sadly, that's all he ever was (as self-admitted way-way back in the first issue).

I didn't expect Moore to make Lovecraft's death so dignified though. It's almost as touching as him allowing Don Quixote to be a legitimate and competent knight in LOEG.

He was listening to the record in the Euthanasia Chamber from the first issue.

The whole montage is him dying.

>Took the coward's way out, because sadly, that's all he ever was (as self-admitted way-way back in the first issue).

That's not fair.
There's only two ways these things play out.
Never ending despair, and suicide.

>the Euthanasia Chamber from the first issue.
God damn my poor memory

Blame the constant delays.

Dunwich Horror ended with a bunch of geriatric ghostbusters beating up Redneck MODOK with magic and science.

That was cool, but we can't all be Henry Armitage.
We just can't man.

Loads more examples of protagonists being alone thinking about putting a gun in their mouth,
At least Robert had the decency to do it in a way that was somewhat poetic.

bup

Wait, that's what that was? Those were a thing?

Yes, "exit gardens" were literally what their name implies.

I forget, what track did his boyfriend choose to listen to when he gassed himself.

But those were seriously a thing back then?

Doesn't seem to be the same record...but if anyone can make what it says out that would be cool.

No, Moore was bringing in elements from The King in Yellow IIRC since he had intimated aspects of that writing with Johnny Carcosa etc.

No, they are one of Moore's creative diversions from the established history. All along this timeline he brings in slightly futuristic things like the domes being built over cities etc.

Oh, I see. So how did they work exactly? Or was that never explained?

>but if anyone can make what it says out that would be cool.
Got it by peering very closely and guessing a bit. It says 'Pullman Porter's Parade'.
Googling that reveals it's sung by...guess who: Al Jolson. (You can just about make his name out on the record too)

It was slightly hilarious to see those two guys discussing the Necronomicon in the 40's while the dome is right behind them.

>Oh, I see. So how did they work exactly? Or was that never explained?
You can see gas tanks in the hallway outside the door.
They gas the person who wants to committ suicide.

>Al Jolson.
Robert and Jonathan had a favorite singer then

why would he need to redeem himself? Moore's always been a polarizing writer. even his novels are examples of this.

anyways, anyone have a date for Providence #12? waiting for it to finally read the final 6 issues.

Not until March or April at the earliest.

aw, damn. i guess i'll have to wait a few months more. i love Moore's work, but, jeez, nearly everything he touches is delayed.

Neonomicon was part "hey guise, what if Lovecraft's work was inspired by real events?"

Providence is basically a long look at those real events before they got filtered through Lovecraft's imagination. But now in its final chapter it's turned into a Neonomicon sequel/epilogue

I liked Lost Girls. I think it gets a lot of unfair hate for unabashedly being porn (underage porn, even...) but plot wise and as sequential-storytelling it's as intrincately crafted and well researched as his best comics.

It makes sense given how that part (and how nice Johnny Carcosa was) was probably the most/only interesting part of Neonomicon.

I love how the Dagon Cult is shown to be formed in the second panel here. Not even they gave a real shit.

Absolutely. I think Lost Girls is his, ahem, lost masterpiece. Plenty of readers, if not a vast majority of them, have difficulties with portrayals of sexuality (and sexual matters) that strays from the norm, so the subject matter in and of itself would have, did, and does turn off readers.
However, if you can get past all that, Lost Girls really is an intriguing, joyous, and, yes, pornographic take on those kids stories.

Reading Kirby.

...

... but it isn't very good as porn

Is this worth reading? Was disappointed with Neonomicon so I didn't check it out. Should I read it when it's all collected?

It's fantastic

i'd say it's great porn. most porn is just awful with zero artistic intent. Lost Girls has literary and artistic merit. hence, i'd say Lost Girls is great porn. care to argue your point?

porn, and particularly comic porn, is a medium that bases its entire point of existing on aesthetics, people want porn because it has stimulating visuals.
the art was utter shite, thus rendering the whole thing pointless

>aesthetics
>the art was utter shite
i found the art to be beautiful. i also wouldn't say it's a failed/pointless project as it has literary merit. i suspect you're basing your argument solely on if the comic was arousing. it may not have tickled loins much, but it sure did pique gray matter. also, your definition of comic porn is rather dubious and lacking. Moore's porn is meant to stimulate both loins and the mind, even if the art, which leans more on the fetishistic than realistic, wasn't to your liking.

I didn't realize that was the Dagon cult.

Yup, it was easy to intuit that they were just fanboys, but now we know they went alongside a really fake Necronomicon.
It's a further, well received, knock down on its credibility.

When the last one comes out, I think you're going to need to storytime all of it with explanations on commentary on each page cause you seem to be the only one that fully knows whats happeneing.

Moore never had a downfall and need of redemption

I've been following these threads forever and it looks fascinating but like another language. I wanna participate but I'm not reading the Lovecraft works to do it.

i can't find it but i remember seeing a really funny Alan Moore quote about Lost Girls where he says it's just porn.

Most of it, outside of the stories and Lovecraft's personal history, is that Moore is relying on a metacommentary of the fall of well read literature enthusiasts...to bandwagon fanboys.

It kinda ties into the theme of LOEG Century if you think about it.

And I was thinking about doing a complete story time soon. Maybe next weekend.