It’s an ending if you’ve made it this far, you’re not looking for a jumping-on point. Severing Neonomicon #4 from the preceding three chapters is a bit unfair. Garth Ennis might be getting all the attention right now (a year or three after the fact) for having written “Horsecock” into Crossed, but Jacen Burrows was the man who brought to life that epoch-defining vision of a man using a severed animal penis as a club. And all this before we even get to Moore’s collaborator on the project. Lovecraft, it smashes headfirst into the most uncomfortable aspects of Lovercraft’s oeuvre: the racism, the sexism, the wilting disgust and coy fascination with sex and copulation. In providing a metatextual counterpoint and companion to the works of H.P. Neonomicon goes too far in just about every respect that these things are charted upon. Unfortunately for us and the above textual cliffhanger, comics’ mad (you pick whether this means “crazy” or “angry”) old sage was right. (Reader advisory: mature subject matter after the jump!) In an interview with Scotland’s The Skinny magazine last September, Alan Moore had this to say about Neonomicon: “I went back and read through the scripts, and I thought, ‘Have I gone too far?’ Looking back, yes, maybe I have gone too far - but it’s still a good story.” No offense, Alan, but we’ll be the judge of that. But as NEONOMICON draws to a close, Brears has one more thing she wants to show you… But now that Brears has walked out of hell, she can see things that most people can’t. Hell just happens to look like a network of tunnels beneath an esoteric little bookstore in Salem, Mass. The cataclysmic final issue of the all-new, all Alan Moore, horror series spoken of only in hushed whispers for years is finally here! NEONOMICON, the sequel to THE COURTYARD Graphic Novel, is slithering its way onto shelves to take its place as a Great Old One of comics terror! Illustrated by Moore’s favorite demented artist, Jacen Burrows, NEONOMICON pulls no punches as every full-colored page is covered in nightmares brought to gruesome life! Agent Brears has, quite literally, been to hell and back.
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