Providence #12 has been solicited >This is the issue when

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Dreamscape

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Pantheon:
Cthulhu Close-Up

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Women of H.P.L.:
Merril Brears

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Portrait:
Howard Philips Lovecraft

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And the obligatory Weird Pulp cover:
This time taking on "The Call of Cthulhu"

The covers have been one of many highlights for this series.

Can't believe it's ending this March.

I'm wasn't following this Allan Moore stuff that much.
Is this the continuation of the story of the girl which got preggers by a Deep One and is now giving birth to Cthullu jr. ?

>>88397850
Actually no, only somewhat.

The first 10 issues are a prequel that is very much a reconstruction of Lovecraftian horror like Supreme was for Silver Age Superman.

Then the last 2 issues (11 was last week) seem to be an epilogue for everything from the Courtyard until now.

Lovecraftian shit is just shelled out for its notoriety these days, not its actual substance. It has little relevance to the modern age.

>>88397911
I agree.

Providence is the only thing to actually use the mythology, the genre conventions, and the atmosphere with any sort of care and respect though.

>>88397885
I see. And Providence will conclude with 12? When is the release?

>>88398026
March 31st

>>88398066
I see I'll read the whole thing then.

>>88398345
That's for the best.
It's tightly done, and reading the whole trilogy (Courtyrard, Neonomicon, and Providence) in one go is a nice way of charting Burrows's growth as an artist.

>The finest horror work ever
So Stan Lee is writng Moore's promo copy these days.

Going to be posting the character variants.
Starting with the Pantheon:

Cthulhu
(Fetal Form?)

>>88398458
Yeah, it is laying it on pretty thick, but Avatar's solicits are usually like that.

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Lilith
(The Horror At Red Hook)

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>>88398560
Sorry, forgot image for that

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Dagon
(The Shadow Over Innsmouth)

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Yog-Sothoth
(The Dunwich Horror)

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Shub-Niggurath's Dark Young

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Tsathoggua

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Azathoth

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Hypnos

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Yig, The Father of Serpents

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Nyarlathotep

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The High-Priest Not To Be Described

Does anyone have predictions on how he's going to end it?

>>88398560
My shitposting gets the better of me sometimes.

My selection bias against Moore is pretty strong. I wish I could get excited about his stuff again, but I somehow, always find something else I'd rather read.

>>88399876
Happily.

>>88399876
Nothing can stop the Old Ones.
They can only be stalled.
They will be. But Carl Perlman will be haunted.

>>88399993
Understandable.
With this...I finally found something Lovecraftian worth reading.

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Mrs. Herrera/Mrs. Ortega
"Cool Air"

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Cornelia Gerritsen
"The Horror At Red Hook"

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Mrs. Obed Marsh/Mrs. Jack Boggs

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Lavinia Whateley/Leticia Wheatley

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Keziah Mason/Hekeziah Massey

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Asenath Waite/Elspeth Wade

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Ghoul

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Mrs. Gardner/Mrs. Forrester

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Susan Phillips Lovecraft

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Carcosa's Mother

Other than Merril, I actually like that Moore is pretending that his OCs are really part of the mythos.

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Sonia Lovecraft Greene

Story time pls

>>88399993
I'm actually not sure I'd recommend Courtyard and Neonomicon, especially if you're leery of Moore. I feel his storytelling is much weaker there, and suddenly for whatever reason he takes off with Providence which is just incredible. The prior works provide context, but reading them may prove a chore.

>>88400765

>Carcosa

I always found a tad intriguing how Lovecraft and his buddies took names and terms from other authors and applied in the Cthulhu Mythos, and then see the same terms in the stories which they originally appeared.

I read the King in Yellow stories by Chambers a couple of years ago and it was kind of an interesting experience see the names of Hastur, Carcosa and Lake of Hali in a different lore. I need to check the stories of Ambrose Pierce as well since Chambers got those terms from those stories.

>>88401095

Post all of it and we'll find out together

>>88401095
It's because Moore actually did research with Providence. He's flat out admitted it.
And also that he didn't really think much of Lovecraft until doing so, only after realizing how the atmosphere and tone he goes for works and why it does.

>>88401069
>>88401119
Check the archive.
I storytimed the entire thing and it was up for 2 days.

>>88401097
Same here. It's three months to get going at it.

>>88398588
Whats Lilith's deal again?

>>88398637
Isnt Dagon and his Deep Ones not really much of a threat? The Deep Ones can be taken out by machine gun fire and I remember playing a game where a battleship managed to do some damage to Dagon before going down.

In fact, what did they do with the Deep One that was gunned down by the FBI?

>>88401177
She's tied to the Kabbalistic cult, which is tied to Yog-Sothoth, as he is the Tree of Life.
She's a guardian between the dream and reality realms, I believe.

They're not that much of a threat, no.
And it's never disclosed. I would imagine they just died out and whatever rest may exist probably still do on Misery Island.

Have you all ordered the #11 Century cover set?

>>88401177
I'm yet to thoroughly read into Lovecrafts works but it seems that the reason why a lot of his monsters that aren't Cthulu or Elder Gods are successful is because humans don't know about them. The moment they'd get discovered, they'd get the shit kicked out of them.

>>88401277
Some of his creatures seem to be pretty alright guys in a twisted kind of way. I mean some ghouls agreed to be painted by Pickman after all, I wonder how that conversation went down?

>>88401304
One of the theories is that Providence-Pickman is part ghoul, which may be true in the short story as well since he later is implied to have gone missing and devolved too.

>>88401238
Waiting for the Act II hardcover.

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Dr. Munoz/Dr. Emilio Alvarez

>>88401119
I only have them on paper you greedy sod.

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Robert Suydam

>>88401141
That makes sense, respecting the original material and doing the work goes a long way.

>>88401141

Much appreciated.

https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/88353452/#88355498

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The Terrible Old Man, Increase Orne

I'm surprised that neither he nor Captain Shadrach Annelesy were bigger parts of the series.

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Wilbur Whateley/Willard Wheately

>>88401474
Here's the interview. You really get a feel why Courtyard/Neonomicon turned out so bland, basic, and superficial.

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

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Brown Jenkins

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Dr. Herbert West/Dr. Hector North

Possibly the least inventive, but funniest, rename.

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Richard Upton Pickman/Ronald Underwood Pitman

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Randolph Carter/Randall Carver

I think that Burrows might have made him look like his interpretation of Lovecraft.

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Ephraim Waite/Edgar Wade/Etienne Roulet

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Joseph Curwen/Japeth Colwen

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Robert Harrison Blake/Robert Black

>>88401979
Whats up with those guys?

>>88402023
They're either from some of his occult experiments or possibly the food stock that Capt. Shadrach used to stay immortal.

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Last cover I feel like posting is the Act I HC cover.

It's so fantastically composed.
I just know the Act II cover will be a let down.

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>>88402827
The "final printing" already has a less interesting variant

>>88403085
The second printing was just lame.
A shot of Wilbur in his shed.

Honestly, if they want to follow the same theme, then the Act II HC should be Robert in front of Miskatonic University, with the Arkham crown behind him.

Then Act III would be similarly done with the Church of Starry Wisdom.

Can someone please storytime it?

>>88403139
See
>>88401491

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>>88397526
I believe that this image perfectly describes my experience after reading all of the available issues of Providence.

So is the octopus guy and his merry band just some kind of aliens ''FROM SPACE'', real divine creatures or just something conceived by imagination by some character in said cthulhu/lovercraft themed comics?

>>88403627
Replace "from space" with "dream reality underneath our own"...and it's actually a mix of all three.

Johnny Carcosa/Nyarlathotep said to Robert that the entities are formless, but do exist. Lovecraft and his colleagues are giving them shape and identity within our world which does help them cross through...with the rapid dissemination and followers that it allows for.

They are divine in a way given that they are, basically, creatures of dream. Being able to do much more, such as what Nyarlathotep describes was done to Hali.

>>88401097
Did you read Dunsany's A Dreamer's Tales? Also related(his was Carcassone), and he's one of the best writers I've seen.

>>88403117
Is there still going to be an omnibus with everything?

>>88401378
They're really gonna put out 3 hardcovers for 12 issues, aren't they?
How can Avatar press be simultaneously so jewish, and so strapped for cash?

>>88403876
I doubt Gillen, Moore, Ellis etc. come cheap.

Also, given the releases for the first HC...I bet it'll be more like 9 hardcovers for 12 issues.

>>88403874
That's what they said when they announced the first HC.
I hope they haven't changed that plan.

>>88403810

Not yet, but the tone of the stories sound interesting. Will check.

>>88404086
Kieron Gillen had to kickstart the second part of Uber. Seems like Moore is breaking their bank.

You know, given how Lovecraft takes the position usually taken by a fictional character in the Portrait Variant - here's my guess for an aspect of the end of the series.

Perlman succeeds. He's able to bind the Old Ones.

But all of this has placed renewed interest in Lovecraft and now led to a resurgence in interest in Robert Black's journal.
Leading to Avatar Press to get Alan Moore to write a comic book miniseries based on the journal.

ie. the premonition of Perlman looking defeated with a book with purple handwriting isn't Black's journal...but is Providence itself.

It fits neatly within the metafiction that Moore liked in that interview.

>>88404229
They could make it back with the collections.
This is probably their most mainstream appealing comic.

>>88404259
But they probably don't have enough money to even print the collections in the first place. They need the money beforehand.

>>88404308
I would honestly contribute a lot if they made a kickstarter just for the collections.

I was hesitant with the others because I didn't really have any stake in Uber: Invasion or Cinema Purgatorio (which is really tanking)

Dave thanks as always for posting, just finished catching up yesterday. What a great historical trip through weird New England. Local stuff like that creeps me out, and while it's true of most places, there are still old places with old families that really give off the desultory yet unsettling vibes that Moore/Burrows were shooting for. I agree Neonomicon was pretty trashy but in context I think it really works when you see it and see them and speak the words. The words, and the truth. The world. This world, our world: is false, is wrong, just a dream, their dream. The old world, their world, the right world beneath-us all: will rise up. rise up and wipe it clean. all of it. Also fishmen orgies fthagn reJoice though my fellow vermin Because we have ALWAYS been with them and alwWays will be. Time is a flat disk. We have already opened the gate and we are opening the gate and we will open the gate y-chtenff! c-bthnk Mnahn'! W'Gahn chim-amaranth! Phlegeth! 'Fhalma Ftaghu ee hai!

>>88398900
I think thith depithion wath thuperb

>>88404496
So do I.
Johnny Carcosa proved immensely fun.

While not overtly sinister, his unassuming and amiable nature really captures why people would be somewhat fascinated by him and his wares.

>>88398637
Game was Call of Cthulhu: Shadow Over Innsmouth

Always imagined Dagon being really small, but I did read it straight after Nightgaunts.

Great covers. Thanks OP.

>>88404610
Game comment meant for...
>>88401177

I'm glad Moore came around on Lovecraft

Yes, his themes have been massively overexposed and watered down and not all of his work is mediocre let alone good

But he still deserves some respect. I know it's cool to dump on HP now and im not defending his prejudices, but god damn it. Some of his stuff is so good if you just imagine you picked some dusty old leather-bound book off the shelf of some Maine or Cape Cod library.

Also from the storytimes yesterday, I learned that Robert Howard shot himself when his mother was dying. Did not know that fun tidbit.

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>>88403085
>tfw missed out on the first printing and now it goes for $60+

>>88404699
I honestly did not know that Barlow and Howard committed suicide in general.
It does add this weird poignancy to the montage the the degradation theme it seemed to be going for.

And yeah, it's great that he did come around.
I remember when this was announced and my first thought was "How's he going to fuck this up this time?"

>>88404737
I've seen it go for as much as 90.

>>88404556
For such a supposedly brilliant detective, you'd think some alarm bells would be going off for Sax that Johnny was so nonplussed and willing to deal so easily. I mean Sax even monologues to himself about how obviously a cop/fed he must seem when he enters the club.

>>88404828
Fate etc.

I never believed Sax as a "great" detective.
He just found a link between the killers. It...was kinda stunningly obvious.

Yeah, I figure if it hadn't been 2 issues it might have been explored more that it was fishy. Since Sax says the most Narc-y shit to Johnny as well.

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>>88404810
Holy shit. Lovecraft comics have a knack for going out of print and then selling for insane amounts of money.

>>88404894
I mean, like we saw depicted in #11, while "known" Lovecraft did get his start by his own friends basically self-publishing his work so it wouldn't be lost to time.

I pre-ordered my first printing the second the solicit came out.
Plan on doing the same cause 20 or so bucks is cheap in comparison now.

>>88401304
Ghouls seemed pretty alright in the dreamscape too. They are just scavengers after all, no reason that they can't be affable creatures.

>>88404766
>I remember when this was announced and my first thought was "How's he going to fuck this up this time?"

Yeah honestly before this, based off Moore's original short story which was basically shitting on Lovecraft and the out of context panels from Neonomicon that always get posted (should be obvious which), I wasn't planning on checking this out at all. But then I saw you going the effort to storytime the whole thing chronologically, and I figured then that it was probably worth a look.

With Providence, I feel like Moore is the first writer to do anything substantial with the mythos since...I dunno. Derleth maybe? The way he plays around with it is great and it really shows the respect he's gained for the material. The diary entries themselves were gripping. Especially when you the reader begin putting the pieces together before poor Mr. Blake.
It's not a rehash but it's not a deconstruction, and as a Masshole, horror writers have always been pretty kind to our region

Burrows has really come a long way too, as others have pointed out.
Lots of genuinely creepy moments. I thought his Wilbur/Willard was properly abominable, and King George may honestly haunt my dreams tonight if I take my melatonin.

March 31st is too far off

>>88405154
I think the fact that they're so amiable is maybe the most distressing part. Especially the part when King George casually chastises Pickman the way you would, I don't know, tell a child to quiet down.
Oh I just remembered a question, what the fuck was up with the little jar/bottle things that had voices coming out of them? In Innsmouth? When those fishfolk were haggling over something, and when Blake entered the room one starting saying he could "smell the Jew" or something.

>>88404699
On the subject of his "prejudices", it's encouraging to know that at least he did come around later in life

>"what a complacent, self-assured, egocentric jackass I was in those days! . . . I can the better understand the inert blindness and defiant ignorance of the reactionaries from having been one of them. I know how smugly ignorant I was. . . . It's hard to have done all one's growing up since 33—but that's a damn sight better than not growing up at all."

>HPL in a letter to C. L. Moore, February 7 1937

>>88405154
True, but King George DID lie.
He said they only take the dead, but Pickman's art shows that's not the case.

>>88405292
It's from "The Terrible Old Man". Basically the way that old guy keeps souls in little glass bottles.
Just some world building I guess.

>>88405161
>based off Moore's original short story which was basically shitting on Lovecraft
It was really bad how Moore kept conflating Aldo Sax with Lovecraft in Courtyard/Neonomicon. It was just really surface level ideas to take root with.

The diary entries are great because they are, in essence, a very back to basics Lovecraftian short story. It's an epistolary narrative with all of the hallmarks. It's astounding.

Here's an interview with Burrows that came out today.
http://www.newsarama.com/32357-providence-artist-jacen-burrows-on-his-long-collaboration-with-alan-moore-adapting-lovecraft-more.html

So, he's working on the Act II and Act III covers. Hopefully they get solicited soon.

>>88405325
Yeah, I mean...most of his friends were jewish and gay, and I think he did love his wife.

>>88405292
People trapped by the Terrible Old Man who trespassed on his property from the Lovecraft story. The guy was a cannibal from another Lovecraft story.

>>88405380
>He said they only take the dead, but Pickman's art shows that's not the case.

No, no. King George is a good boy.

>>88405479
He's a nice guy.

I do like that he said howdy to Robert when he traveled to the Dreamlands with Randolph Carter.

I know it's a well-worn and very old comic trope, but as always Moore makes very good use of different fonts for different voices. fonts and balloons that make it abundantly clear how "wrong" they are

i've asked this before and probably goten answers but what's the req reading for this series? what % of racist new englander do I need to read

I only have one question about #11

Why were the spinning record panels ruler-straight, when nothing paranormal was happening in them?

So Yog-Sototh appeared as the archetypical satyr-satan and fucked Lovecraft's mom with his crab cock? Or was that when Moore still took the piss

>>88405656
Check the archives, there's a chronological storytime with DL links

>>88405703

i meant like non-moore comic stuff. these seems like you need some familiarity with HP and all i got is racist and fish monsters

>>88405620
It came in handy

>>88405656
Off the top of my head:
Cool Air
The Horror at Red Hook
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.
The Dreams in the Witch House
The Thing on the Doorstep
The Shadow over Innsmouth
The Rats in the Walls
The Terrible Old Man
The Dunwich Horror
Herbert West, Reanimator
The Colour out of Space
Pickman's Model
The Statement of Randolph Carter
The Unnameable
The Dream Quest of the Unknown Kadath
The Silver Key
Beyond the Silver Key
From Beyond
The Haunter of the Dark

...that should enough

>>88405665
I think it's meant to be that Robert is having a dying premonition.
Which is the montage.

>>88405668
That's not actually canonical.
I just included that because it set the tone.
The story behind that is when Lovecraft's dad had a mental breakdown due to untreated syphillis.

#9 implies that Yog-Sothoth impregnated Lovecraft's mom through Winfield Lovecraft much like is depicted in #4 with the Wheatelys.

>>88405784
Oh, fuck.

Also:
The History of the Necronomicon
Dagon
The Crawling Chaos

>>88405808
>The Crawling Chaos
Wait, not that one.
I meant the story titled "Nyarlathotep".
Just to see the fun take that Moore has on him

>>88405988
Oh, and
The Outsider
At the Mountains of Madness
The Cats of Ulthar
The Shadow Out of Time
Sweet Ermengarde
and of course,
The Call of Cthulhu

That has to be it

>>88406138
...The Doom that Came to Sarnath.

And that, should be everything you need to understand any of the references that Moore will throw at you.

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>>88397526
>The finest horror work ever written
Its alright for what it is, but ultimately what it is, is a bunch of name drops. What kinda moron would call that the finest horror ever written?

>>88406356
Name a better horror comic.

>>88406375
>inb4 Nameless

>>88406138
>>88405988
>>88405808
>>88405784
>>88406253

welp i'mma go buy a complete works.

by buy i mean DL cause that's public domain now

fucking moore, this shit is why i haven't read league yet. I don't have the entire western canon memorized to pick up on them references

>>88406417
I actually see Nameless as the natural evolution of the Randolph Carter story.

>>88406454
Good luck.
I actually think it's fortunate that it's mainly focused on Lovecraft. Gives it a more focused edge

>>88406375
I don't need to, the words were clearly
>finest horror work
not comic

>>88406734
Work that is a comic

>>88406773
It doesn't say that faggot

>>88406375

Not that guy, but Moore already did that with his Swamp Thing run decades ago.

Hellboy is a strong contender too, even though it is a horror/action mix than anything.

>>88407005
I always preferred Wein

>>88406356
>is a bunch of name drops

>You Made Me Love You
>Love "Craft"

Fucking Moore

>>88404610
>Call of Cthulhu: Shadow Over Innsmouth
Game was called Dark Corners of the Earth

>>88408222

>>88397526
there's different covers for each album ?

i think the french version only got one

>>88409740
By album I'll assume you mean issue,
And yeah, but they'll likely be included in an omnibus,

>>88409754
ok thanks

I have now turned all of the Providence covers into a slideshow wallpaper.
Not gonna use the pull ones because it's impossible to crop the title without losing too much art.

>>88409754
But not in the hardbacks which pisses me off.