Jacen Burrows
Autor de Neonomicon
Sobre El Autor
Créditos de la imagen: Jacen Burrows at the 2012 New York Comic Con, October 14, 2012 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in Manhattan. © Luigi Novi / Wikimedia Commons
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Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Burrows, Jacen
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1972-09-11
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- San Diego, California, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Tacoma, Washington, USA
- Educación
- Savannah College of Art and Design (Degree|Sequential Art and Illustration)
- Ocupaciones
- comicbook artist
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- Obras
- 37
- También por
- 60
- Miembros
- 2,566
- Popularidad
- #10,010
- Valoración
- 3.5
- Reseñas
- 100
- ISBNs
- 67
- Idiomas
- 6
I wont go into details since that would be ruining experience for others. Lets just say that third act is basically a tie in between Providence story-line and Neonomicon story.
We have St John-like character here (our curious and ultimately darn weird and stupid-on-oh-so-many-level's Mr. Black), that agent women from Neonomicon (that plays the role comparable to Mary) carrying something that will usher our world into darkness and all the others - call them wise three man (from the dark side) and locals witnessing the event (no shepherds here, this folk is sick and scary to the bone).
Black finally realizes that horrid things he saw and witnessed in previous volumes actually exist and consequently goes off the rails - he acts very much like Sam Neil's character from the movie "In the Mouth of Madness" but it is too late. Finally he ends up in that weird room for listening records [that you will most surely remember from act 1].
Of course since this books aims at being artistic we have same elements that I mentioned in my previous reviews. We have Black chasing down guys wherever he goes (I can only say thankfully no monster raping in this volume) and finally he gets ... serviced? ... by a messenger from these monstrosities from beyond that has entire face in form of female genitals and of course goes down on Black.
Most interesting part of the story is when Black finally connects the dots - when he realizes who is he talking to, ancestry and links between all these characters he came across. He then becomes aware they need to be stopped but unfortunately it is too late. Like in movie "The Fallen" he knows and they know he knows - he spirals into madness and ..... we bloody lose him from the story, one third in (???)
And this is my second issue with this novel - ending is like stuff from bad dreams (as one of the remaining normal [I hope] characters says - is this all dream?). Art as always is gorgeous and Jacen Burrows shows that dream-like quality of all the events in great form and detail.
But be it dream or not (everything looks like it is being erased in slow-motion by a giant eraser) ending is so abrupt and so unsatisfying ... its incredible. I dont ask for details in order to nit-pick them but ending is such reader is not sure what happened (I know I was asking myself "am I missing pages?").
Atmosphere and art are on the spot. But authors decision to abruptly pull the breaks and stop everything before ... I dont get it. Take for the example [b: The Books of Magic|17727|The Books of Magic|Neil Gaiman|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1367303662l/17727._SY75_.jpg|2986314] by Neil Gaiman. Same dreamy out-of-this-world events, shadows lurking everywhere but book has start and the end. Even if this book ended in a similar way like "In the Mouth of Madness" (which is a variation of "I am Legend" book ending) it would be great. In order to detect lunacy story needs to give us same sane character - reader cannot be the one.
All in all, not so good ending for the series. Could have been much better [for me at least since lots of people are truly enjoying it].
If you like Lovecraftian horror treat yourself and give this 4-volume story a try (4th being Neonomicon that should be read first - if you ask me). Although it has its bad sides story is good enough and brings horror to the mind of the reader (which is not something comics usually manage to do).… (más)