>What A Night! Robert Black has met his fate. The Herald

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According to Moore, these last two issues are more like an epilogue.

No journal entries.

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I do love the blatant symbolism that Burrows and Moore add to the art.

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All of our friends!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJY8jJkDoMY

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Well, can't pass up a recommendation from Moore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI5FAwhjrNE

Just finished it. Holy fuckballs; Moore, you absolute madman.

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>>88237175
I'm so glad the time skip hasn't happened yet.

It wouldn't be Lovecraft without a disheveled shell of a man

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Burrows, fuck.

He has gone up so much in my estimation with this series.
Every shot of Robert's face is perfect.

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Haha, damn Freddy Dix.

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Robert Black
Robert Bloch
Robert Blake

...hope it helps.

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IT'S HAPPENING.

It's an old method.

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Oh yes.

I'm so glad that we got to see the Dunwich Crew in action.

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>Darby

Perfect.

>this kills the annotators

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>>88237373
I'm only getting about 60%
And that's mainly the stories and a few of the Letters Circle.

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That was a variant!

They reused the variant!

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This is perfect.
This is so fucking perfect.

The book, of course, Robert wrote down the binding spells in it.

The man with the ruined hand on the bridge wasn't Robert.
It's Carl. Either he fails and destroys it, or succeeds and destroys it.

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It's classic plot set up.
It's Dunwich revisited.

#12 is going to be nuts.

Also, I guess, the transition into Neonomicon kinda makes the entire journey sort of worth it.

>>88237521
It kinda starts to redeem that book

>>88237637
I felt the ball on redemption started rolling once we started seeing all of the various Covens in Providence.
And how far from the mark the Dagon Cult was.

But the transition nails it for me, including the slight change in art style.

>>88237662
Fuck yeah man. I am so fucking psyched to have this in my hands and watch the world burn around me.

>>88237708
It really is perfectly toned all the way through.

Robert's story, even his suicide, conforms to all genre conventions.
Including the ambiguous nature of hope.

>>88237458
How difficult would it have been to draw the RI license plate? It's literally just a few squiggles.

>>88237304
Any what's happening on panel 3 and 4?

>>88237346
3 for this one

>>88237372
1 for this

I think I get all the others

>>88238740
>3 and 4
Herbert West's Assistant being stalked by the Zombies.
Tom Malone casing out Suydam.

>3
The Silver Key

>1
Brown Jenkin's body being discovered in the rubble of the Witch House

>>88238791
Ah, right. Thanks m8

Hell of an issue this was. Guess now all bets are off on how this thing is going to end

This has to be one of the top series out there. There's just so damn much here and I bet they could write a whole book just trying to explain all these references.

does anyone have link to previous issues please and thank you

>erasing Lovecraft's fevered imagination and rabid creativity
>and then turning him into a hackneyed, needy non-fiction writer

Even for Moore, that's pretty cruel. This never would have happened if Howard had been a woman or a person of color.

>>88239228
lol

Nyarlathotep Blowjob!

WOOOOOOOOO!!!

I'm a bit confused

>>88238896
It could go either way.
There are stories that provide tones that work for either path.

>>88238952
The montage time skip reminds me a lot of how From Hell and LOEG are jam packed even in the slightest way.

>>88239396
About which?

>>88237359
I'm surprised a dog was able to kick his ass so thoroughly.

>>88239563
His mixed species made him weaker...like his weirdly put together body was easy pickings.

>>88237421
Ah, shit. We're back here.

>>88237223
I hope he'll eventually get work from publishers that are not Avatar Press....I mean it's not like him and Moore will ever work together again.

>>88239709
The Lovecraft stuff (including the non-canon story about Syphillis) was the only reason.

So yeah, hope so too.

>>88239709
>>88239853
Bad blood?

>>88239884
Nope.

Just that they haven't really paired up otherwise and Providence is the final cap on Lovecraft for Moore;.

>>88239884
Moore's qutting comics after LOEG Vol.4.

>>88239943

>>88237346
> Derleth
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>88237290
Jeez, was that eldrich blowjob really that bad?

RIP in peace Robert

>>88241501

>>88237156

I bet the smiling girl on the first seat is the real danger in that car.

>>88243859
She's the Thing on the Doorstep witch

>>88237464
huh, which ruined hand?

>>88243859
>>88243896
>she

>>88244294
>huh, which ruined hand?

IIRC, in the last premonition that Robert had in his dreams (with the woman from Neonomicon in it) he saw a man with a withered hand holding a book with violet colored writing in it. Peering "defeated" over a bridge.
The book you might recognize as being the commonplace book with Black's violet ink.

And now we have Carl Perlman - who has a withered/ruined hand.

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>>88237446
>crucified Cthulhu plushie

>>88245073

there you are

>>88237156

how nice of them to get together one last time

>>88237140
>glasses are cracked

Of course

>>88249481

he's seen some stuff afterall

>>88249737

I need to read more HPL to get all of the references but even then this has been an enjoyable ride. Poor Robert though, he suffered so much.

>>88237156
I thought for a second Wilbur was sitting alone but then I remembered his twin brother is fucking invisible.

>>88237110
>no act II hardcover
fuck you too, Avatar Press

>>88237521
Yep.

The only thing I would say doesn't match up across the Lovecraft books is that Providence is very much about this other world (perhaps only one of imagination, of potential existence) already existing and being just out of lockstep with reality until the right door or observer comes along. Whereas the Neonomicon is a less ambitious horror story and has the foetal Cthulhu in a kind of 'oh you just didn't predict it was gonna happen THIS way' twist ending. I don't think Moore had Providence exactly in mind when he wrote Neonomicon, or at least ideas were revised in getting there.

You can go from Neonomicon to Providence, but I don't think you can go from Providence to Neonomicon. If you imagine them published in different order. The Courtyard, I think you can go to and from either.

>>88237364
>>88237372

Poor Robert...

Anyone knows what's going on with the Crossed fundraiser?
It's been over two years and $50,000, and Avatar are acting like the whole thing never existed.
http://www.comcav.net/collections/crossed-doa

>>88257218
>>88257218
Avatar literally has no money. They had to Kickstart one of their major titles to release it in Uber.

>>88258927
>I don't think Moore had Providence exactly in mind when he wrote Neonomicon

Pretty sure that's the case.

Originally Moore was asked to contribute a piece to a Lovecraftian anthology back in the 90s. He thought he'd write a series of small short stories based on Fungi From Yuggoth. Not just turning the poems into stories, but doing his own thing. For insance, his version of "the book" would revolve around him meeting Julius Schwarz, who showed him a scrapbook with lots of photos and personal memorabilia from famous authors he'd known, from Ray Bradbury to Lovecraft. "The Courtyard" was his version of, well, "the courtyard": But then Moore went and lost the manuscripts in the back seat of a taxi. Unable to recover them, he basically went like fuck it. Of the few pieces that survived he sent the courtyard to that anthology.

Then Anthony Johnson and Jacen Burrows did the Courtyard comic, with Moore's blessing. Years later Avatar asked Moore if he wanted to do something else with them, and he said he had a few ideas based off Courtyard he wanted to explore. Then Neonomicon happened. More years later, Providence kicks in, once again from Moore wanting to further explore some ideas he'd had in the last comic.

>>88258927
>>88260366

Also, with Providence, Moore has admitted to reading more Lovecraft and that by the time he was writing Providence he had gained more of an appreciation for what Lovecraft had done.

Something that I credit with why the tone in Providence is so spot on. Moore was able to see why it worked, when Neonomicon and Courtyard feel like bland, generic, affairs.

Neonomicon, I think, benefits greatly by being so sloppy and messily handled. Because of that most of it's main points easily fit onto Providence without seeming contradictory.

>>88260196
They're also releasing a third variant for the Act I hardcover.

They're scrambling badly.

Providence 11 (of 12) (2016) (digital) (Minutemen-Faessla)
http://www34.zippyshare.com/v/Iqwpm3bi/file.html

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Providence 01 (of 12) (2015) (digital) (Minutemen-Faessla)
www75.zippyshare.com/v/7g9KmX4q/file.html

Providence 02 (of 12) (2015) (digital) (Minutemen-Faessla)
http://www62.zippyshare.com/v/r7yHHQJH/file.html

Providence 03 (of 12) (2015) (digital) (Minutemen-Faessla)
http://www58.zippyshare.com/v/gdWs96V6/file.html

Providence 04 (of 12) (2015) (digital) (Minutemen-Faessla)
http://www68.zippyshare.com/v/qRSpnamm/file.html

Providence 05 (of 12) (2015) (digital) (Minutemen-Faessla)
http://www30.zippyshare.com/v/tQ6d8QZD/file.html

Providence 06 (of 12) (2015) (digital) (Minutemen-Faessla)
http://www53.zippyshare.com/v/AlBRSXCJ/file.html

Providence 07 (of 12) (2016) (digital) (Minutemen-Faessla)
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Providence 08 (of 12) (2016) (digital) (Minutemen-Faessla)
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Providence 09 (of 12) (2016) (digital) (Minutemen-Faessla)
http://www31.zippyshare.com/v/X19KZipG/file.html

Providence 10 (of 12) (2016) (digital) (Minutemen-Faessla)
http://www56.zippyshare.com/v/dXrl2COM/file.html

For anyone without a working knowledge of Arkham House Press and the Letters Circle

The annotations page has you covered

https://factsprovidence.wordpress.com/moore-lovecraft-comics-annotation-index/providence-11/

>>88260723

I can't wait to read this whole thing back to back.

>>88262299
Planning on running the whole of Moore's Lovecraft saga sometime around Christmas.

That includes:
That black and white story about Lovecraft's dad
Courtyard
Neonomicon
and this

Just to see how it flows

>>88260723
I bet they had a field day with this.

>>88237436
>>88237446
RIP poor lady in the records section.

>>88262349
I'd say that as well.

It's stunning how nicely Moore was able to place the fictional chronology of the stories with real life events.

>>88237428
That bottom panel is maybe the sickest joke in the whole series.

>>88262453
In what way?

>>88262480
I'm pretty sure Aldo didn't get to cut that guy's hand off and he feels sad about it.

>>88263279
Good catch then haha

It just came to me that the only people who have access to the "Real" Necronomicon is the Church of Starry Wisdom.

Which is probably why Moore spends so much time focusing on the history of fake Necronomicons.

Because outside of that copy, the only other facsimile of the real deal is Robert's notes.

>>88263309

>>88260723
How are they cranking these out so fast?

>>88264711
Well, there's three guys.
And I think that this one was mostly easy given the montage.

Half of it was Lovecraft's life/the ending of his stories. Simple stuff.

The only real sticking details would be the Letters Circle, but I figure they're already well known about that.

I think the longest time it took for a complete annotation were the Arkham issues.

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I live in Providence ama

>>88264850
Does anyone there actually give much of a shit about H.P. beyond the book conventions and stuff?

>Cinema Purgatorio #7, “The Vast” by Christos Gage and Gabriel Andrade contains the same content that was printed for that story in issue #6. All other stories in this issue are new content.

>Sorry everyone, we screwed this up. However, due to a number of circumstances, we won’t be going back to press for a corrected edition of #7. The next chapter of “The Vast” story will appear in Cinema Purgatorio #8.

What is going on with Avatar?

>>88265107
It's going under.
They've had to kickstart their last few books.

And they cancelled everything Crossed.
That's like Disney pulling the plug on Mickey Mouse.

>>88265184
You don't think they'd back out of the Providence hardcovers do you?

>>88265601
No way.
I think that them reissuing the ACT I hardcover even thought they said they wouldn't means they're trying to score up enough cash.

I figure they're going to kickstart what they can.

>>88265107
That's so lopsided

>>88265107
daaaamn, that's very poor business practice, jilting consumers of their product that way. not to mention very shoddy workmanship not realizing it was the exact same chapter in the previous comic wound up in the new publication. jeez, amateurish all around. thanks, Avatar, for your Ellis and Moore series, and Ennis's Crossed runs, but after Prov 12, i'm out.

>>88268168
Worried that Avatar feels the same and will just never finish Uber

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWMTC2VIaVY

>>88269110
Neat

>>88269110
That's really cool. I think having a sense of the record is really good for reading through this issue.

>>88270242
Yeah, it's actually a very disconcerting sounding song.

I agree with the annotators that it fits the scope of Lovecraft's fiction. Possibly one reason for the montage out of dozens.

But it also really nails home the futility of the series.
No matter what people are aiming for, there's death, some refutations, and eventually the end of the world.

>>88264850
are you a demon?

>>88237397
>its mah boy borges in a lovecraft comic
YES, wonder if he ever read lovecraft

>>88265017

Yes. There's always some petition to get something new named after here. There are one or two Lovecraft shops around. His grave always has tributes left.

>>88271132

I am an intelligence beyond your comprehension.

>>88271190
He did yeah, he was a fan. That's a story except IIRC.

>>88271190
>>88272276
Yeah, in the panel he's reciting his story "there are more things" to his scribe (Borges was practically blind in his later years). The afterword is kinda ambiguous. He said

>Fate, which is known to be inscrutable, would not leave me in peace until I perpetrated a posthumous story by Lovecraft, a writer I have always considered an unwitting parodist of Poe. At last I gave in; the lamentable result is titled The Are More Things.

So he dislikes Poe, yet writes a tribute to him and dedicates it to his memory. Some mixed signals there, Jorge. Maybe he knew most literary critics diss Lovecraft and he wanted to beat them to the punch in a critique of his own story?

>>88274044
he dislikes Lovecraft*

Had a brainfart there.

>>88274044
He could wry like that

>>88237110
No one cares

>>88274044
maybe it was a gulty pleasure