>What A Night! There is a secret America. One hidden, parallel,

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And here we go...
Part 1: Cold Breeze

Just love this series and we're going on a bit of a long hiatus, so let's get it out there.

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Grand ambition Robert

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He got them moves

cheers Dave, been meaning to read this

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Pale fellow

>>77780492
Haha, no problem.
It's fantastic.

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Quite honestly one of the best representations of the Necronomicon.

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Everything Alvarez says drips with referential subtext

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Cursed

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Time and fevers heal all wounds, Robert.

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The common place book is essential, even though it might strain the eyes.

I'm trying to transcribe it, and will hopefully be done by the time #7 rolls around

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Part 2:
wherein The Dream At Red Hook

>>77780756
>strain the eyes
I'm glad I'm not the only one who had trouble reading this section. Reading these pages is exhausting in the weirdest way.

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>>77780963
After I got through them a first time, each other time has been way easier.

I actually find them somewhat more entertaining than the actual issues.
Robert's train of thought can be spookily hilarious.

>>77780979
There is much more personality to the handwritten sections than the "widescream comics" tone of the rest of the book. I mistyped "widescreen" but I'm leaving it.

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I've heard speculation that the woman in the background on the second and third pages of this issue is Johnny Carcosa's mother.
Which I am okay with being true.

>>77781053
I find Burrow's art extremely personable, but I get your point haha. It reads much like a good Lovecraft homage short story, as if the comic is adapted from it.

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The four methods is a very great way of tying some of the more disparate stories together

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Torn limb from limb...that's pretty hardcore.

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Portraits galore

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Easy reading, huh?

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Part 3:
wherein The Darkness Within Salem

Is skipped the text parts after they seemed like just recaps of the comic part. Did I actually miss much?

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>>77781905
You miss more and more with each issue.
It's not just recaps, it's context, foreshadowing, and overall fleshing out.

It's like skipping the text parts of Watchmen

>>77780212
Well Milwaukee is notoriously home to only hack frauds.

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Burrows might not be among the top of Moore's collaborators...but he's firing on all goddamn cylinders here.

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Best Innsmouth look.
Bar none.

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He's a connoisseur.

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It took far longer to understand "Stella Sapiente" than I care to admit.

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He has very curious dreams

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Nice save Black.

Brilliant page.

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So much fish and icky sea creature worplay

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Part 4:
wherein The Athol Terror

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Reminiscent as hell of the original Roger Corman movie.

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His entire look is a delight.
Backwoods warlock

It's a bit too smart, isn't it? Maybe it's just me, but pages devoted to characters talking about literature and Jung and Yazidi theology feels sort of a bit much. I mean, I get Moore is into this Occult bullshit but I dunno. Miracleman didn't have this issue, y'know?

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>>77783188
I don't know. I see your point, but I think it's meant to be in the same vein as Lovecraft's own story.

Characters namedropping then highly readical theories on psychology and space...simply in passing.

I feel it fits the reconstructionist nature of the story.

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None of which detracts from...well, what is really going on.

It's dressing with a purpose.

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he is The Gate
he is The Way
he is The Key

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He's just a strapping young lad

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Now we're back at the start.

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There he goes down the road.

>>77783254
>I feel it fits the reconstructionist nature of the story.
I get you, and I'm into that, but there's just something about it that doesn't sit right with me. I love the reconstructionism of Maus, for example. But here I dunno. I didn't like Neonomicon either to be fair. Still, it's an interesting read, so thanks for the storytime.

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This is just...awful.

>>77781950
Oh I get it - all the occult stuff is a, uh, metaphor for... communism?

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>>77783582
Oh, man, I HATED Neonomicon. One of the worst Lovecraft comics ever written.
But I mean, Lovecraft himself loved to litter his stories with references to Alchemy, Jung, burgeoning Quantum Physics...all of it.

I mean, it's due justice. And doesn't really detract if you breeze past it a bit.

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>>77783628
>Oh I get it - all the occult stuff is a, uh, metaphor for... communism?

Close. It's a metaphor for the general "outsider'.
Like Black and his homosexuality, it's all about being on the fringe of accepted society.

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Sounds like a familiar story does it?

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Part 5:
wherein The Nightmares In The Boarding Room

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We've finally made it to Arkham.

And these last two issues are a delight.
I know the series isn't perfect, but it does seem to continually top itself.

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>Wantage
Didn't even try, Moore

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I know that Jeffrey Combs has become the iconic face - but he'll always be blonde to me

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I didn't pay close attention the first time, but Burrows actually did some legwork in making the Witch House thoroughly....non-euclidean.

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Night

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So blighted.

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The Meteor....again, took me way too long to realize it's significance outside of "The Colour Out of Space"

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DOMES

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You're very important, Mr. Black

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This is just...profane

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Will Mr. Black be the latest victim of the maniacal Dr. North?
Tune in...immediately.

>>77783770
Oh right. Lovecraft isn't real, all his stories are.

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>>77784585
Lovecraft is very real, he's Randolph Carter, don't you know?

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Part 6:
wherein The Girl At The Threshold

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The Necronomicon

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Tsk, always leaving leftovers Dr. North.

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Armitage looks appropriately badass

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Haha, Wizard Wheatly had his penchant for pins even back then.

oh boy

>>77780544
it's like a manly hall lecture

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>>77785294
Time to read from a very special book.

>>77785315
Haha - that's exactly it.

>>77785060
but it will literally kill him that is the joke

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I don't know, if this book gets a good following - I can see The Book of the Wisdom of the Stars becoming a semi-iconic variation.

I mean...look at it

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Ooh....break out the decoder ring.

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Woah...

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Now you remember the whole getting ripped limb from limb by invisible djinn bit

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Etienne.

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And now we get to the breaking point

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It's about time Mr. Black.
But you're way too deep.

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Arkham.
It's like a maze, you don't even know you're trapped until it's too late.

>>77785397
This is Hebrew. Well, not exactly hebrew, but extremely close to it. There are at least eight characters there that look like hebrew ones.

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>>77785680
Yeah, that jumped out rather overtly.
Wonder what the purpose is.

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You ready to read the most abridged version of the Necronomicon ever?
Start here.

It's a real trip.

>>77785741
Is this comic based on Lovecrafts stuff? Because he was an anti-semite, and the characters of a dark and secret book being close to Hebrew might be a reference. Or maybe it was a coincidence. Or maybe the artist is a lapsed jew who likes to have fun.

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>>77785786
>Because he was an anti-semite,
Well, I was kinda thinking outside the obvious haha.
The aklo letters being hebrew does seem like a kind of dark joke in that vein.
I wonder if it might also just be that the letters do look, well, coool.

>>77785786
Ignore this. Wikipedia says he liked Jews. Fairly unusual.

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>>77785863
Of course, his wife was one, and while he may have been a bit of a man child in some respects...he never filed the divorce papers.

God, the language of Hali's Book is good.

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The funniest bit is that after so many things doing the whole "strange aeons" couplet over and over....

This variant on it
>the Eternal knows not cease nor change, and death dies if the aeons be measured strange?

Very refreshing.

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Now YOU can also write unspeakable and unholy spells in your own home.

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I love how it says
>averted

Kind of gives you hope. Don't it?

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You've found your secret america, Black.
And it is all yours.

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Coming Feb. 2016:
Pitman's Mock-Up!

THE END, for now.
As always I hope someone out there enjoyed this.
I did.

>>77785762
so basically it starts with Plato's cave allegory except our world is the shadow of someone else's

>>77786153
Yeah, which is a way more elegant way of phrasing Neonomicon's central twist.

>>77786197
kind of break's down Lovecraft's neuroses into an old school European philosophy framework instead of just saying he was afraid of scientific discovery which is neat

>>77786275
Yeah, you're right. Of course, Moore (I think rightly) doesn't think he was afraid of scientific discovery at all. Just thought of the outside context of it all.

Something that the allegory pinpoints really well, wow.

>>77780518
Nice, starting with one of my favourite stories.

>>77786056
The old ones mentioned are Yog-Sothoth, Azathoth, Nyarlothotep, the Fungi, and Cthulhu right?

>>77785954
I call that sunday school homework.

>>77781215
which story is "diet" based on?

>>77789462
The terrible old man, along with some other references to Ghouls in the work.

>>77781600
>I once wanted to write a story where the dream world was literally underground, but never got around to it.
This is a hitting a little too close to my unfulfilled literary aspirations.

>>77781053
'the widescream' is a great name for a horror cinema

>>77782199
>all them fish titties

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>>77782411
>that Dagon

>>77783342
tesseracts look fun to play with

>>77783647
part of the whole point at the time was for Howard and his circle to consistently slip in the fictional writings with the legitimate ones, which back in the days before the internet made it hard to separate fact from fiction. Especially among readers that weren't aware these different writers were all sharing ideas. See lots of references about Jung, look him up at the library. See lots of references about the Al Azif, ask around, a couple people have heard of it but they all say different things, maybe one of them suggests you mean Ismail al-Jazari's al-Jāmi. Then in trying to track down other mentions they buy up the books of the rest of Howard's peers. Sort of an early AR game

>>77785987
>Chanolog'y

>>77784382

Domed cities indeed.

>>77782020
I really like the coloring difference from when he's the focus to not. Gives it a real clammy feeling.

I'd actually buy the tpb for this, if not for THAT rape scene. It would make me feel like a pervert for having that on my shelf

>>77781077
I recognized her on the first read. What an unpleasant sight that lady is.

>>77781981
>Rich Evans is a fish-person

IT'S LIKE POTTERY

>>77785601
This gave me In The Mouth Of Madness flashbacks

>>77785060
>>77785369
whats this all about? i dont know who these characters are...

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>>77793704
At least watch the fucking movie, if you're too lazy to read the short story.

This was excellent. Cheers, Dave.

>>77791678
Haha yeah there's that too.
Lovecraft even considered releasing an "abridged" Necronomicon - which would have stoked those flames.

>>77793570
I'm still going to get the HC, I mean maybe not on my open shelf because of the more lasivious scenes - but it's rather good and that deserves a buy.

>>77793594
She really is repulsive. But she is the mother of one of the most entertaining incarnations of Nyarlothotep, so that gives her some points. Wonder if he'll get a cameo.

>>77791309
That's St. Jude, you fool

>>77785390
Those are all the same girl.

This series is full of nice little details like that.

>>77795625
Captures how incredibly weird reading the book is supposed to be like, that even time becomes secondary.

>>77785060
were they about to party with out limits?

>>77795967
Yeah, party hard enough to raise the dead

>>77794105
>tfw people who only saw the movie don't get the reference to the Canadian

up

>>77796852

boop

>>77785975
>Ftagn, that which dreams itself into existence
That's pretty awesome

Given the fact that time is not absolute and that everything is happening all at once, could the events of Neonomicon be averted?

>>77800763

>>77806389
>>77804447
what the fuck? The hell is this shit.
I always though lovecraft's monsters were mostly tentacles and shit, not cats/bats...

>>77807335
They're the ghouls/subhumanoids from Pickman's Models.

Lovecraft had a variety of monsters - the tentacles and shit just get the most press...annoyingly.

>>77807335
tentacles and shit really only described a minority of Lovecraft entities, most of which are gods or godspawn. He has cats, bats, rats, fungus, apes, penguins, starfish, snakes, zombies, inbred rednecks, all manner of crap

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>>77807483
Who could forget the Cats?

>>77807483
yeah, definitely... like the hound and shit

>>77807335
Check out the Dreamland stuff. In my opinion most of the tenticle stuff got pushed by Derleth and Lovecraft's other peers that added to The Mythos after his death.

>>77808119
That and I think the tentacle and fishmen are easier to market.
Dream Cycle has some ace stuff though - hope we see some actually bits of it in future issues.

>>77808025

Hali's Booke mentions that Cthulhu will eventually dream up a new last that leads to his birth.
That's how this is a sequel to Neonomicon, Providence is the new past he creates through his dreams after being conceived.

>>77780639
>>I think that I should fall to pieces

So this is clearly the guy from "Cool Air" one of Lovecraft's stories. I think at the end he really does fall apart. Sorry spoiler. This is great stuff.

>>77811093
This is the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen for Lovecraft.

>>77789252
Second to last is Shub-Niggurath

>>77811019
That's pretty clever, actually.

>>77785390
So the necronomicon's talking about our dear protagonist, right?

>>77814211
honestly I get the feeling he's gonna get sent back in time, become the Mad Arab, and write the book to begin with, which is why everyone wants to make such a 'good' impression on him

>>77782347
>Sarnath

>>77782199
This page is /tg/ approved

>>77812888
Yeah, would fit the recursive nature of it all if true.

>>77814318
I think it's because, without him, Lovecraft might not write about them. Because Black is Harley Warren and Lovecraft is Randolph Carter.

Eventually it will all end up with him and his stories are essential to the retarded cultists in Neonomicon. Making a good impression is wanting to be a part of that.