Ah, you want dark ... this is dark. Well within the spirit of the Lovecraftian tradition and an added dash of American FBI TV drama with serial killer characteristics. Alan Moore even gets in a bit of Kenneth Grant on the side.However, since many of you in America have more of a problem with sex than gory violence, be warned ... this is a work of sexual horror with explicit scenes of truly unpleasant sexual violence.The scene of reptilian jissum flying through a wide arc as the FBI heroine jerks off the monster to save herself from yet another rape is not for the faint-hearted. There is a certain Sadean quality to one long section.Moore is, as he gets older, increasingly interested in the sexual imagination and it is not unconnected to his interest in magick. For him, magick is creating something out of nothing and extreme sexual imagination is magick.From Promethea through Lost Girls to this, the intensity grows but it is an honest intensity that should disturb the reader not as wrong or sick but as an expression of the wild capabilities of the full imagination. There is also a genuine twist to the usual Lovecraftian story line that any aficionado of the horror genre will pick up as a borrowing from another trope of demonic literature (no spoilers here).Let us just say that hybridisation is a theme that turns back on itself as the hybridisation of literary memes into new creative activity. This graphic novel is genuinely horrific and far from 'adolescent'. Moore is also well served by the classic comic book style of Jacen Burrows which captures the Lovecraftian iconography of the tale well. Recommended but with the standard caveat that it is for mature minds only. This book is so completely meta - by virtue of its very existence - that it is difficult to know where to start talking about it. It's a challenge to review something that the author himself freely admits he created to pay off the tax man, and when that author is the famously crazy and obsessed Alan Moore, (who has wanted to to chastely fingerbang H.P. Lovecraft's ghost through silk gloves for at least 15 years now) the challenge is magnified.Another paean to Lovecraft from a grown person is like a new Smiths album; might be okay, but aren't we all, as adults, past the need for that? Or maybe that's not Moore's audience, adults?This is a book about people living in a Lovecraftian world and realizing that time, and indeed, actuality, are not fixed or linear, and can be influenced by certain vocabularies, themselves as strong as drugs; nay, stronger. So, then - a book about living in a book, kind of. There's plenty of graphic death and sex magic (way too much of this latter to be anything but Moore doing his porn thing again) and page after page of one character being raped by the Deep One, a pun that hurts my teeth.This doesn't end so much as punchline, and I was disappointed, but I have been pretty much by all Alan Moore since Promethea. You'll put your name on this, but not the V for Vendetta movie? Good call, Alan - leave me out of your future tax bills.
What do You think about Alan Moore's Neonomicon (2011)?
Niente di che, consigliato solo ai fan di Lovecraft
—phuieus
