{"id":19050,"date":"2011-11-30T09:40:11","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T09:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=19050"},"modified":"2012-03-07T10:40:38","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T10:40:38","slug":"neonomicon-by-alan-moore-and-jacen-burrows-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/reviews\/neonomicon-by-alan-moore-and-jacen-burrows-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Neonomicon by Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-19052\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/reviews\/neonomicon-by-alan-moore-and-jacen-burrows-review\/attachment\/neonomicon-hardcover\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19052\" style=\"margin: 3px;\" title=\"Neonomicon hardcover\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Neonomicon-hardcover-190x300.jpg\" alt=\"Neonomicon hardcover\" width=\"190\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Neonomicon (Hardcover)<br \/>\nWriter:<\/strong> Alan Moore\u00a0<strong>Artist:<\/strong> Jacen Burrows<br \/>\n<strong>Publisher:<\/strong> Titan Books\u00a0<strong>Price:<\/strong> \u00a320.99<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Review: Atlas Infernal\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/star.png\" alt=\"Review: Atlas Infernal\" width=\"29\" height=\"29\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Review: Atlas Infernal\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/star.png\" alt=\"Review: Atlas Infernal\" width=\"29\" height=\"29\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Review: Atlas Infernal\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/star.png\" alt=\"Review: Atlas Infernal\" width=\"29\" height=\"29\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As of 1991\u2019s From Hell, Alan Moore, the mad monk of comic-books, stopped writing the sort of things that most people want to read, possibly to discourage Hollywood from adapting it (although it\u2019s not working, even given how dense <em>From Hell<\/em> was and still they found a way to have Johnny Depp impersonate David Beckham) and making all of Northampton tremble with his rage.\u00a0Since his bitter divorce from mainstream comics, the emphasis in Moore\u2019s writing has shifted from storytelling to picking at the scabs of ideas, and anyone looking for braindead cape-on-cape action has long since learnt to look elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Neonomicon amazingly ticks both boxes, being an almost metatextual analysis and exploration of HP Lovecraft\u2019s racism and sexual phobias, but framed as an investigation, complete with conclusion. A pair of FBI agents (and an extraordinarily racist one in a three issue prologue, \u2018The Courtyard\u2019) investigate a mystery drug, a cult\/sex ring, and a series of uncanny murders, all seemingly inspired by HP Lovecraft\u2019s stories.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s extremely graphic, with impossibly vile visuals and scenarios that stay with you long after the pages have stopped turning \u2013 perhaps more in spite of Jacen Burrows\u2019 somewhat clinical art than because of it, and that\u2019s <em>Neonomicon<\/em>\u2019s perverse strength. Without the effluent scenes that constantly bubble in your fragile mindtank like some sort of demonic influence all of their own, Alan Moore\u2019s latest work is surprisingly conventional in structure. Aside from the tentacles and dead languages, it\u2019s so tightly bound to the framework of a police procedural that we can be fairly sure some network somewhere are eying it up to fill the <em>Fringe<\/em>\/<em>Haven<\/em> void in their schedule.<\/p>\n<p>And we can be fairly sure he\u2019d hate that.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Moore (Watchmen, V For Vendetta) and Jacen Burrows (Crossed) take on the world of HP Lovecraft in new Avatar Press graphic novel Neonomicon, available in the UK from Titan Books<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":19051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[1624,8],"tags":[54,2293,2292,1596,2291,2294,1409,16],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Neonomicon-Alan-Moore-hardcover.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19050"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}