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Title: Alan Moore's the Courtyard by Alan Moore, Jacen Burrows, Antony Johnston, Garth Ennis ISBN: 1-59291-015-7 Publisher: Avatar Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 2004 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Another failed attempt at adapting Cthulhu mythos
Comment: This is something you cannot do. The Cthulhu mythos begins and ends with Lovecraft as far as I'm concerned. It's just not scary when anyone else tries it. Don't get me wrong I love Moore's earlier work. From Hell is the last thing he did worth buying and it could've benefited from major editing. If you're interested in Alan Moore check out Watchmen, V for Vendetta, or The Complete DR and Quinch. If you're interested in the Cthulhu mythos go for Lovecraft.
Rating: 5
Summary: Ulthar Cats Worldwide Tour!
Comment: This book blew my mind! Unlike most people who probably read it, I had no idea it was a Lovecraftian piece, just that it was Alan Moore's first horror comic in something like a decade. So as I read it I was confronted with a vaguely unsettling sense of familiarity, until I realized at the end exactly what this monstrosity was and started over from the beginning! Notes in Yuggoth Cultures #3 (another Lovecraftian collection by Moore) reveal that The Courtyard was originally intended as part of a novel (Yuggoth Cultures) wherein he treated Lovecraft's 36 sonnet "Fungi From Yuggoth" cycle as "literary fungi" (basically taking each sonnet and writing a story based on or inspired by it) So this is NOT like the many lovecraft pastiches out there which just invent more extraterrestrial deities, it's Alan Moore's warped take on Lovecraft's universe. There's even some mystical concepts worked into the tapestry, the like of which might be somewhat familiar to Promethea readers, except they're twisted to fit a very Lovecraftian end...I must have read this thing four or five times by now, and each time I read it I pick up on things I didn't notice or didn't understand before. I don't have the companion (yet!) but I'm sure it enhances the reading immensely...
Rating: 1
Summary: Cthulhu in the Courtyard
Comment: I am a big fan of H.P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos. Many authors have done a wonderful job adding to this mythos. This story is not one of them. In fact, the most entertaining thing about the book was the introduction.
Alan Moore does a fine job showing us that he is familiar with many details of the Mythos. He does this the same way he showed his familiarity with Victorian literature in The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
But unlike in League we do not have a story to hang the references on. We are introduced to an investigator who specializes in seeing the patterns in chaos. He is very good at his job. He is currently undercover looking into a series of unconnected murders.
My real problem is that the story has only one character. He starts off as a genius seeing connections no one else can. But then, when the obvious is in front of him, he sees no onnections whatsoever.
The story is very nicely illustrated in a clean black and whit by Jacen Burrows but clean art cannot save a story that is not there. Very disappointing.
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Title: Judgment Day by Alan Moore, Jim Starlin ISBN: 0974166456 Publisher: Checker Book Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 2 (Comic) by Alan Moore, Kevin O'Neil, Ben Dimagmaliw, William Oakley ISBN: 1401201172 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Ultimates, Vol. 1: Super-Human by Mark Millar, Bryan Hitch, Andrew Currie ISBN: 0785109609 Publisher: Marvel Entertainment Group Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: The Filth by Grant Morrison, Chris Weston, Gary Erskine, Matt Hollingsworth, Clem Robins ISBN: 1401200133 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 June, 2004 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Promethea (Book 1) by J. H. Williams III ISBN: 1563896672 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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