Neonomicon

This wouldn't have been my favorite even if it didn't feature the multiple and graphic sexual assaults (which have left me traumatized by the way). The artwork is pretty okay but the story was a convoluted mess. On top of that, it's quite preposterous he though it was a good idea to make the main female character a sex addict and have her be “cured” of said addiction by being gang raped by people and then by some half-fish-half-human creature. Of all the things he could do with this story, he chose this?

Interesting start turned into a completely different, and rather silly, story in the end.

It felt like they had a good idea, had no clue what to do with it, so they just kind of added sex and made a completely ridiculous story with that idea...

This was between one and two stars for me. Whilst the basic story fits the mythos style very well, it didn't really do much for me. The rape went on for quite a long time, which I'd been forewarned about after reading a few reviews (which I read after buying it, otherwise I probably wouldn't have bought it). Yes, it's fundamental to the plot but I think it did cross over the line into gratuitousness.

Edit: taken down a star to 2 stars. On reflection, it's just too rapey to be good. I liked all the stuff that wasn't rapey or crazily sexually deviant.

Not really sure how to rate this. It was seriously fucked up. Like. Probably one of the most fucked up stories I've read. Complete with pictures. But the artwork was good.

I anticipated that Moore's takes on Lovecraft would examine the seriously messed up fiction, but I'm intrigued by how Moore explores the fucked up writer himself. This discourse is the comic's winning element, and I hope for more from Moore's Providence.There's much to contemplate re: the role of extreme sexual violence—as a reaction to Lovecraft's repression, it's perhaps a little over-corrective? To me, the character response in the final issue is at once a liberating conclusion and a troublesome head-scratcher