It’s an imaginative conclusion and it’s… okay. It’s beneath Moore, sure, and I’m sorry he took such a—there’s no other word for it—fan-fic way out. But it’s okay. It doesn’t quite make having reread The Courtyard worth it but he comes really close with it. Moore kind of takes something one might think is completely…

How delayed was this book? And it reads in three or four minutes? Here’s where Moore’s either going to go someplace interesting or he’s going to go the Avatar place…. This issue introduces this awesome possibility for the story, totally different than where the previous issue led it. And, of course, it could all just…

Is Moore trying to prove some kind of point? It’s a little strange seeing Jacen Burrows do an actual Moore script, by the way. I’m used to far more finished artists. Anyway… this issue is split basically in two. The first half is Moore doing Lovecraftian fan-fiction. It turns out Neonomicon isn’t set in Lovecraft…

Now, I think Moore said in an interview he did this comic to pay for some back taxes. It shows, but it’s Alan Moore writing a comic for a paycheck so it still has a good level of competency… if not imagination. About a quarter of the issue—which is mostly dialogue, as I guess Moore…