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Cargando... Neonomicon (2010)por Alan Moore, Jacen Burrows (Ilustrador)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Rapey Lovecraftian horror. This felt really rushed - the dialogue showed Moore at his most leaden, exposition-laden worst. The truly unpleasant elements may have worked better in a better Alan Moore story, but were gratuitous here. The plot felt flimsy and arbitrary. An awkward mess. Lovecraft deserves better. Ganchos para futura review: referências a diversas histórias e autores do Mythos que já resenhei aqui (Lovecraft, Ambrose Bierce, Ashton Clark Smith, Ramsey Campbell, etc) e interessante ótica sobre os mitos de Chtulhu, principalmente na questão temporal e não-literal; história compassada de maneira muito semelhante à primeira temporada de True Detective, me pergunto até se não houve inspiração; cenas problemáticas relacionadas à sexo que não dá para ser breve ou falar sobre sem dar spoilers. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Pertenece a las seriesNeonomicon {2010-2011} (1-4) Contenido enContieneAlan Moore's The Courtyard #1 por Alan Moore (indirecto) Alan Moore's The Courtyard #2 por Alan Moore (indirecto) Premios
"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. From their interrogation of Sax (where he spoke exclusively in inhuman tongues) to a related drug raid on a seedy rock club rife with arcane symbols and otherworldly lyrics, they suspect that they are on the trail of something awful-- but nothing can prepare them for the creeping insanity and unspeakable terrors they will face in the small harbor town of Innsmouth"--Page 4 of cover. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Story is full of tension, you do not see much of actual bloodshed - everything is right there but somewhere in the periphery of your vision. As I said very Lovecraftian.
Then we get to "Neonomicon" story arc. It is basically continuation of Courtyard but now detective from that story is arrested and committed to mental institution after events in "The Courtyard". Nobody knows what happened to the man - he speaks same gibberish language as those he initially hunted himself - but everything points to the same location where he sought the murderers. Two agents (male and female, where female has certain sexual addiction problems) are sent to investigate and then situation escalates rather quickly - very soon horrendous creatures start popping out. It ends on a rather strange (and rather depressing) note for the humanity itself because in the end everything hints to birth (and thus invasion or awakening) of ancient monsters bent on destroying humanity. Are we but a dream of a monster or do we all exist on separate astral planes and monsters are thinning the borders between the planes thus endangering us? Is what we see the past or the future - are the monsters yet to be born in the first place? Are Lovecraft's works basis for the strange cults or are they inspired by true stories buried down by authorities? Again, very interesting and very Lovecraftian.
And then we get to most conflicting part of this story - monster raping above mentioned female agent. Is it disturbing, oh believe me it is. Following contains spoilers so proceed at your own risk.
In many aspects this story seems very much like Warhammer40k story - especially time warping and establishment of monster portals through living beings. But again W40K has many common elements with unspeakable terrors from Lovecraft.
So to sum it up - pretty much what you would expect from Lovecraft is present here: depression, madness, hints of horrors and no happy ending.
This is not for underage readers due to rather traumatic part of the story - it is prolonged sequence, that indirectly shows all the horror, fear and despair (there are no explicit scenes in here) and maybe this is what makes it more horrifying. If you cannot stomach it then I would not advise you to go through this comic collection.
Recommended to all fans of Lovecraft and horror stories.
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