I read the issue, and the one before it, and The Courtyard before that, and I can understand why, in terms of the story, Moore went where he did. Derleth and Roy Thomas aside, HP Lovecraft's universe-a universe founded on the nihilistic angles that decorate the stories of the Old Gentleman from Providence-that's going to be a nasty place. Not scary necessarily, depending on your tolerance for seafood and the mysteries of the horizontal mambo, but nasty all the same. And Moore gives us nastiness aplenty in his scrawlings in Lovecraft's commonplace book. Other writers have done much the same, though few of them have been working in the graphic medium when they did it.
That said, it's probably not a place I'll be visiting again, any time soon.
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and I'll be having the same old pointless arguments with the same old Alan Moore groupies all over again. I actually enjoyed the first issue, and the first half of the second, and then the "porn" kicks in, and I just stopped giving a fuck. I'm not disgusted by it, I'm not in the least bit offended or repulsed, I just can't be arsed with Alan Moore any more. no doubt he'll act all wounded because nobody understands him, but I've given up caring what he thinks. shame.
Actually, from recent interviews with him, he seems pretty abashed by the whole thing. Not ashamed, necessarily, but uncomfortable with his work on the series. Which is probably a first.
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