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Providence Act 1 Final Printing HC Hardcover – March 28, 2017
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- Print length160 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherAvatar Press
- Publication dateMarch 28, 2017
- Reading age16 years and up
- Dimensions6.6 x 0.5 x 10.3 inches
- ISBN-101592912915
- ISBN-13978-1592912919
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- Publisher : Avatar Press (March 28, 2017)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 160 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1592912915
- ISBN-13 : 978-1592912919
- Reading age : 16 years and up
- Item Weight : 1.19 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.6 x 0.5 x 10.3 inches
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Alan Moore is an English writer most famous for his influential work in comics, including the acclaimed graphic novels Watchmen, V for Vendetta and From Hell. He has also written a novel, Voice of the Fire, and performs "workings" (one-off performance art/spoken word pieces) with The Moon and Serpent Grand Egyptian Theatre of Marvels, some of which have been released on CD.
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If this is indeed the final printing for this volume you have to get it. A great addition to any collection at a low price.
EDIT - After reading through this volume my 5 star review stands, but with the recommendation that you find a blog or something that elaborates on all the connections between what's happening here and in other Lovecraft stories. You really need a PhD in all things Lovecraft to understand this, it seems. Some connections are more like references or riffs - for example chapter 3 is similar to Shadow Over Innsmouth but not literally the same - while others appear to involve real characters and plot points from other stories that, unless you know those stories really well, you'd completely miss. For example - chapter 4 is apparently a prologue to the Dunwich Horror. I admit that I don't have nearly the level of Lovecraft knowledge to catch these on my own, but it only adds to my appreciation for Moore's work to see more clearly just how complex this project was.
This is a graphic novel and most of it is told in paneled drawings. But the reader is also favored with the contents of Robert Black’s commonplace book: his musings on what he (and the reader) experienced, his feelings, bisexual and otherwise, his dreams, documents he picks up on the way, the most memorable being the parish newsletter of the Church of St. Jude.
And, as you must have been waiting for, he includes his ideas for novels and stories. Like so many of us, he has no trouble thinking of great ideas, he just can’t figure how to provide the flesh and bone. He has the most success with an idea about a doughty young investigator following a trail of clues until he uncovers a horror that devours him. He shakes his head in his notes. Of course, the writer and the reader would want the character to continue to the end, but any believable character would turn tail and run the moment he realized where he was headed. The only reason he wouldn’t would be if he was in denial about the weird stuff he was seeing and if he became too invested in solving the mystery to quit. Yes, Robert Black thinks, that would solve his problem.
At which point, like most of my fellow readers, I hooted and sneered. Poor little character, who has read Guillot and Robert Chambers but never heard of H.P. Lovecraft. By the time this collection has ended, our hero has encountered one of the master’s few heroes and nine of his vilest villains. He has been in a super-cooled apartment and an underground lair complete with altar and demon and a waterfront full of people who look like fish and a deranged inbred family who talk to an invisible son and nothing has clicked.
Robert Black is not a very admirable young man so I have no reservations about watching him stick his head in the mouths of fiends. I do like how the great Alan Moore is making Lovecraft’s universe his own and I do like how he and artist Jacen Burrows are reimagining his people(s).
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Vom Storytelling ist es die Geschichte des Reporter Robert Black, der im Rahmen seiner Recherchen auf zahlreiche Figuren aus Lovecrafts Geschichten zu Interviews trifft, deren Namen zum Teil abgeändert sind (aus "Dr. West" wurde z. B. "Dr. North", aus dem Maler "Pickman" "Mr. Pitman") und deren Hintergrundgeschichte er nicht kennt; im Lauf der Recherche wird der Reporter mehr und mehr in den Cthulhu-Mythos hineingezogen.
Ich fand das Buch großartig, bin mir aber bewusst, dass ich es bei weitem nicht voll verstanden habe. Dafür fehlt mir der kulturgeschichtliche und psychologische Unterbau.







