Moore reveals enough of black for us to understand his life and his aspirations but as the issue goes on something starts to be hinted at. Much of this issue is just character and scene building. The first thing is that Moore has the artist Jacen Burrows (possibly best known for his work on the first Crossed series with Garth Ennis) stick to a four panel page, so time isn’t slowed down as much as say in Watchmen’s famous nine panel grid, but the effect it has here is to pace things very methodically, and making the lead character, Robert Black, a journalist is a smart move as it allows Moore to have a character that can move around meeting people naturally. So Providence could be something that for me redeems that series as Providence is as the pitch says, a prequel and a sequel to that work. I felt Moore was a bit of clunking iron fist in his characterisation. Frankly, it offended me (which was part of the point) but as a comic it sent out some very dangerous messages. I thought Neonomicon was a comic that crossed a few major lines in terms of depictions of rape, and although it was a perfectly well constructed comic, I felt Moore made some blunders regarding his portrayals of women in this series. Invoking a comparison it to a prior literary masterpiece is not something to be handled lightly, but in scope, importance and execution: Providence is the Watchmen of horror. The result is a breathtaking masterpiece of sequential art that will define modern horror for this generation. Every line from artist Jacen Burrows is perfectly honed to complete this immersive experience. Both sequel and prequel to NEONOMICON, PROVIDENCE begins in 1919 and blends the mythical visions of HPL flawlessly into the cauldron of racial and sexual intolerance that defined that era on the East Coast of America. In his most carefully considered work in decades, Moore deconstructs all of Lovecraft’s concepts, reinventing the entirety of his work inside a painstakingly researched framework of American history. The most important work of 2015 begins here with the long-awaited arrival of Alan Moore’s breathtaking epic PROVIDENCE with his artistic partner Jacen Burrows. The long awaited new comic by Alan Moore is here, and here’s Avatar’s blurb for it.

Neonomicon and providence