Have you ever read a comic and then realize you are just inadequate

there's a good site that posts companions to each page of each issue, panel by panel, it really really helped me with OP issue

yeah that's why i haven't read it. or League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and i actually have some knowledge of League shit.

I ordered From Hell and made sure to get the companion book for it

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>>88875531
https://factsprovidence.wordpress.com/moore-lovecraft-comics-annotation-index/providence-11/

>>88875544
>>88875103
i think its equally as cool as it is stupid that you need a companion book for his comic
it doesnt make him smart, its just well executed trivial knowledge

>>88875569

Moore generally can make it work without reading the notes though. Like Watchmen is dense as fuck too but no one ever really dwells on it.

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This is pretty much how I feel the first time I read most Morrison stuff. Pic very related

>>88877587
I still don't understand this and I've read it at least three times

>>88875579
i skipped almost every single pure writing page with no art in watchmen

got me along fine

all that nite owl 1 shit i skipped, i read some of rorshachs stuff since it was cool tho

>>88877745

I think that's part of the experience that Morrison was going for here. I believe he wanted it to be disorienting and unsettling and leave you feeling a little uncertain about how to approach the story. Which I think worked out pretty well in terms of the overall effect.

>>88875103
Happened to me with this very comic.
I was familiar with HPL's mythology and had read a couple stories, but boy, was I green to read Providence. I felt like a toddler trying to understand algebra. When I checked this site https://factsprovidence.wordpress.com looking for answers and realised how many references I'd missed, I felt really stupid.
I luckily have a volume with all of Lovecraft's narrative so that will hopefully help me appreciate the whole thing a lot more when I read Providence in full after #12 comes out

>>88875103
would you an Elsbeth, /co/?

>>88875103
I think you can understand it full well from the narrator's perspective and here I suspect it works even better if you have no prior complex of Lovecraft.

>>88875103

Providence and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen both have that effect on me, but it doesn't really stop me from reading or enjoying them with the limited knowledge that I have of the things being referenced. You'd have to be pretty insecure about yourself if you find that sort of thing limiting what you can and cannot read.

>>88875103
This is Moore.txt m8

Not so unusual in literature

>>88881145
No, absolutely not, right? Nothing is published in a vacuum. It seems really weird that you would slate a comic for this.

>>88875103

any work that relies on references to another is inherently worthless

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>>88882967
>relies solely on

but idk anon, providence is a story about hidden knowledge
isnt there something to be said about having access to a different kind of story than more pedestrian readers bcuz of insider information? thats a huge aspect of what providence is about, might be it's chief trait

>>88882967
This is the worst opinion I have ever read on /co/