History ComicBook / Neonomicon

* MentalTimeTravel: Lovecraft's writings and other CthulhuMythos stories and visions of {{Eldritch Abomination}}s are actually a result of four-dimensional "echoes" of powerful, highly evolved beings from Earth's distant future.

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** This is actually played with quite interestingly. In the original story, ''The Courtyard'', it seems like it's just another story in the CthulhuMythos Universe taking place in modern times. It isn't until the second chapter of ''Neonomicon'' that Brears mentioned H.P. Lovecraft. Sax just never made the connection in the earlier story because he'd never heard of him, it having been written right around the time Lovecraft's works were only just starting to begin the huge resurgence in popularity they gained through the Internet.

** What the detectives (and by extension, Moore) seem to think Lovecraft was. They discuss the idea that all of Lovecraft's [[EldritchAbomination horrors]] may simply have come [[FreudWasRight from his own personal revulsion at the very idea of sex]].

''Neonomicon'' is a four part comic miniseries by Creator/AlanMoore from 2010. It continues the narrative of his 1994 short story ''The Courtyard'', which had been converted into a comic back in 2003.

* AffablyEvil: Johnny Carcosa is rather chummy and easygoing for an avatar of Nyarlathotep.

** In ''The Courtyard'' he's merely a casual bigot who uses a lot of racial slurs, which seems to be Moore trying to stay true to the tone of actual Lovecraft stories, but he goes whole hog with it once he loses his mind.

'''''Neonomicon''''' is a four part comic miniseries by Creator/AlanMoore from 2010. It continues the narrative of his 1994 short story ''The Courtyard'', which had been converted into a comic back in 2003.

It's quite an atmospheric story, but be warned: there is a lot of very graphically depicted sexual assault and rape.

* NonMaliciousMonster: The Deep One; he takes Agent Brear by force, multiple times, but he doesn't seem to understand he's harming her and he doesn't brutalize her wantonly, to him it's nothing more than mating. Plus, when he understands that she's pregnant, he gently brings her into the water, breaks the gate that confined her with his free hand, helps her escape, and then goes back and proceeds to rip the Dagon cultists apart to prevent them from harming her.

!!Tropes:
* AbhorrentAdmirer: Despite raping her constantly, the Deep One does seem to care about Brears, helping her escape when he learns she is pregnant.

* AlienGeometries: The plateau of Leng definitely qualifies. R'lyeh is actually Agent Brears's '''womb'''.

* ArtificialLimbs: Carl Pearlman has a very ''GhostInTheShell''-looking bionic hand because Sax cut off his real one.

* BareYourMidriff: Randolph Carter, and Brears both rock this look sometimes.

* BookEnds: The first and the last page are identical.

** Sax's look and general demeanor are based upon Lovecraft's. This happens in an universe where Lovecraft and his work do exist.
** This is actually played with quite interestingly. In the original story, ''The Courtyard'', it seems like it's just another story in the CthulhuMythos universe taking place in modern times. It isn't until the second chapter of ''Neonomicon'' that Brears mentioned H.P. Lovecraft. Sax just never made the connection in the earlier story because he'd never heard of him, it having been written right around the time Lovecraft's works were only just starting to begin the huge resurgence in popularity they gained through the internet.

* DidTheyOrDidntThey: Lamper and Brears seem perfectly at ease getting naked around each other, and Lamper gets very defensive when a fellow agent asks if they're having sex, but nothing sexual is ever confirmed.

* DramaticDeadpan: Agent Brears uses this when she visits Sax for the second time. Seeing as how she's using it to inform him that her partner was killed by the Dagon Cultists, who went on to gang-rape her and turn her over to a Deep One, who raped her repeatedly, in the process of which she became impregnated with C'thulhu, but she's decided that humans are basically "vermin" so she's more or less okay with the impending death of the species, the effect is terrifying. Sax himself is terrified.

* ExoticEquipment: We get to see quite a bit of Deep One penis, and it's pretty much a regular penis. Played somewhat straight in that Deep Ones seem to be able to go at it for hours without any kind of male refractory period at all. Some of the sex toys depicted are pretty out there, however.
* ExtremeOmnisexual: The Dagon Cultists are this trope to a tee.

* LikeRealityUnlessNoted: The comics take place around the time they were written but lots of the technology and other things are more advance or at least... different. In addition to the aforementioned domes all the phone booths have built-in fax machines, Louis Farrakhan has a holiday named after him, UsefulNotes/BillClinton declared war on Syria in the mid '1990s and the US dollar has recently undergone a revaluation.

* NonMaliciousMonster: Possibly, the Deep One; he takes Agent Brear by force, multiple times, but he doesn't seem to understand he's harming her and doesn't brutalize her wantonly, to him it's nothing more than mating. Plus, he eventually pulls out a CrowningMomentOfAwesome when he understands that she's pregnant, gently brings her in the water, breaks the gate that confined her with his free hand, helps her escape, and then goes back and proceeds to rip the Dagon Cultists apart to prevent them from harming her.

* PlaceBeyondTime: Both R'lyeh and the Plateau of Leng count.

* {{Bowdlerize}}: While the series doesn't shy away from discussing Lovecraft's infamous racial hangups, as is often the case with Lovecraft adaptions, the Deep One's design has been altered to conform to modern sensibilities. While the originals were described as flabby-lipped and bulgy-eyed, invoking comparisons to golliwog caricatures, the Deep One here is drawn with a lipless, sunken-eyed visage, looking like nothing so much as a humanoid coelacanth ([[AdaptationalBadass which, you have to admit, looks a whole lot cooler]]).

* DidTheyOrDidntThey: Lamper and Brears seem perfectly at ease getting naked around eachother, and Lamper gets very defensive when a fellow agent asks if they're having sex, but nothing sexual is ever confirmed.

* {{Gorn}}: A few pages of it; largely downplayed in favour of altogether more disturbing imagery.

Neonomicon is a four part comic miniseries by Creator/AlanMoore from 2010. It continues the narrative of his 1994 short story ''The Courtyard'', which had been converted into a comic back in 2003.

The comic tells the story of FBI agents Brears and Lamper who are sent to continue the investigation of the occult murders that had been happening in The Courtyard. They uncover everything that previously happened extremely quickly. Then [[FromBadToWorse things take a turn for the worse...]] No, not even a turn for the worse, more of a straight nosedive straight downhill from there.

It's worth noting that the reason for this comic's genesis was [[MoneyDearBoy largely due to some pecuniary issues Moore was having at the time]]. In an interview with Wired Magazine: Moore said "I had a tax bill coming up, and I needed some money quickly. So I happened to be talking to William [A. Christensen] from Creator/AvatarPress, and he suggested that he could provide some if I was up for doing a four-part series, so I did. So although I took it to pay off the tax bill, I’m always going to make sure I try and make it the best possible story I can."

* AbhorrentAdmirer: [[spoiler: Despite raping her constantly, the Deep One does seem to care about Brears, helping her escape when he learns she is pregnant.]]
* AffablyEvil: Johnny Carcosa is rather chummy and easygoing [[spoiler: for an avatar of Nyarlathotep]].
* AlienGeometries: The plateau of Leng definitely qualifies. ''YMMV'' on R'lyeh[[spoiler: it's actually Agent Brears's '''womb''']].
* TheAntichrist: In this case, [[spoiler: it turns out to be Cthulhu!]]
* ApocalypseMaiden: [[spoiler: Agent Merrill Brears by the end.]]
* ArcadianInterlude: [[spoiler: Brears has one, mid-rape. Only it's in R'lyeh. With Nyarlathotep.]]

* {{Asexuality}}: What the detectives (and by extension, Moore) seem to think Lovecraft was. They discuss the idea that all of Lovecraft's [[EldritchAbomination horrors]] may simply have come [[FreudWasRight from his own personal revulsion at the very idea of sex]].

* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler: ''YMMV'', but arguably Agent Brears. Multiple rapes, the death of her partner, and being impregnated with Cthulhu seem to have turned her around to the idea of destroying the world by the end of the story.]]
* BiggerIsBetterInBed: Subverted. The Dagon cultists react positively to the size of the Deep One's penis, but [[spoiler: Brears finds it painful after a while.]]
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: [[spoiler: Played completely straight.]] [[JustifiedTrope Possibly justified]] due to Moore's stated intentions to tackle the racism of [[Creator/HPLovecraft Lovecraft's works]]; ''YMMV'' on that one, though.

* CelebrityParadox: Sax's look and general demeanor are based upon Lovecraft's. This happens in an universe where Lovecraft and his work do exist.

* CountryMatters: Dropped by Sax when describing his neighbor, Germaine. Later, Agent Brears unleashes one of these, combined with a PrecisionFStrike, on the female cult leader [[spoiler: who's just casually informed her that when the Deep One's finished raping her, the cult will kill her.]]

* DramaticDeadpan: Agent Brears uses this when she visits Sax for the second time. [[spoiler: Seeing as how she's using it to inform him that her partner was killed by the Dagon Cultists, who went on to gang-rape her and turn her over to a Deep One, who raped her repeatedly, in the process of which she became impregnated with C'thulhu, but she's decided that humans are basically "vermin" so she's more or less okay with the impending death of the species, the effect is terrifying. Sax himself is terrified.]]
* EldritchAbomination: [[CaptainObvious It's based on Lovecraft.]] [[spoiler: Agent Brears turns out to be Cthulhu's mother!]]
* ExoticEquipment: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. [[spoiler: We get to see quite a bit of Deep One penis, and it's pretty much a regular penis. Played somewhat straight in that Deep Ones seem to be able to go at it for hours without any kind of male refractory period at all.]]
** Some of the sex toys depicted are pretty out there, however.
* ExtremeOmnisexual: [[spoiler: The Dagon Cultists]] are this trope to a tee.

* FanDisservice: The Comic! Issue 1 starts out as a fairly typical ''PoliceProcedural''; by issue 2 things are getting weirder... [[BrainBleach until the last few pages]]. [[FromBadToWorse It's all downhill from there. So very, very far downhill...]]

* FishPeople: Again, [[Creator/HPLovecraft it's Lovecraft.]] [[spoiler: and we get to see '''exactly''' how those Deep One hybrids get made.]]

* Creator/HPLovecraft: Par for the course.
* KickTheDog: The female cult leader telling Agent Brears that without her wig, she's not even that good-looking: this is [[spoiler: after Brears has been repeatedly raped by the cult and by their quasi-pet Deep One]].
* LikeRealityUnlessNoted: The comics take place around the time they were written but lots of the technology and other things are more advance or at least... different. In addition to the aforementioned domes all the phone booths have built-in fax machines, Louis Farrakhan has a holiday named after him, UsefulNotes/BillClinton declared war on Syria in the mid '90s and the US dollar has recently undergone a revaluation.
* MentalTimeTravel: [[spoiler:Lovecraft's writings and other CthulhuMythos stories and visions of {{Eldritch Abomination}}s are actually a result of four-dimensional "echoes" of powerful, highly evolved beings from Earth's distant future]].
* MoneyDearBoy: Moore's stated reason for writing the four part miniseries.
* NobodyPoops: Averted rather significantly. Germaine defecates in a sink (off-panel, but the feces is shown), and Brears urinates by the side of the pool while in captivity(on panel). The latter becomes plot-relevant when [[spoiler: the Deep One smells (and tastes) her urine, and discovers that she's pregnant.]]
* NonMaliciousMonster: Possibly, the Deep One: [[spoiler: sure as hell he takes Agent Brear by force, multiple times]], but he doesn't seem to understand he's harming her and doesn't brutalize her wantonly, to him it's nothing more than mating. Pretty much [[spoiler: the Dagon cultists, who seem to be much worse than him, rape her with his dick]]. Plus, he eventually pulls out a CrowningMomentOfAwesome when [[spoiler: he understands that she's pregnant, gently brings her in the water, breaks the gate that confined her with his free hand, helps her escape, and then goes back and proceeds to rip the Dagon Cultists apart to prevent them from harming her]].

* PuttingOnTheReich: Sax in the mental hospital has carved a swastika into his own forehead. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]], in that the mental hospital clerk refers to him as "Der Führer".

* ShoutOut: ''DiscussedTrope''; the miniseries stops dancing around the issue of the ludicrous number of Creator/HPLovecraft references in ''TheCourtyard'', and outright addresses them. The FBI agents discuss whether the writings may be influencing a series of occult killings, or whether [[FromBadToWorse it might be the other way around...]]

** [[Literature/TheKingInYellow Johnny Carcosa, a character who wears a yellow mask that is strongly implied to be part of his face?]] Please...

* StockholmSyndrome: Elements of this come into play [[spoiler: in the scene where Brears talks to her Deep One rapist.]]

* LikeRealityUnlessNoted: The comics take place around the time they were written but lots of the technology and other things are more advance or at least... different. In addition to the aforementioned domes all the phone booths have built-in fax machines, Louis Farrakhan has a holiday named after him, BillClinton declared war on Syria in the mid '90s and the US dollar has recently undergone a revaluation.

* NonMaliciousMonster: Possibly, the Deep One: [[spoiler: sure as hell he takes Agent Brear by force, multiple times]], but he doesn't seem to understand he's harming her and doesn't brutalize her wantonly, to him it's nothing more than mating. Pretty much [[spoiler: the Dagon cultists, who seem to be much worse than him, rape her with his dick]]. Plus, he eventually pulls out a CrowningMomentOfAwesome when [[spoiler: he understands that she's pregnant, gently brings her in the water, breaks the gate that confined her with his free hand, helps her escape, and then goes back and proceeds to rip the Dagon Cultists apart to prevent them from harming her]].

* ExoticEquipment: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. [[spoiler: We get to see quite a bit of Deep One penis, and it's pretty much a regular penis. Played somewhat sraight in that Deep Ones seem to be able to go at it for hours without any kind of male refractory period at all.]]

* DidTheyOrDidntThey: Lamper and Brears seem perfectly at ease getting naked around eachother, and Lamper gets very defensive when a fellow agent asks if they're having sex.

* KickTheDog: The female cult leader telling Agent Brears that without her wig, she's not even that good-looking: this is [[spoiler: after Brears been repeatedly raped by the cult and by their quasi-pet Deep One]].

* MentalTimeTravel: [[spoiler:Lovecraft's writing and other CthulhuMythos stories and visions of {{Eldritch Abomination}}s are actually a result of four-dimensional "echoes" of powerful, highly evolved beings from Earth's distant future]].

* DarkerAndEdgier: The story takes the works of H.P Lovecraft to some very dark places that even Lovecraft himself danced around or demurred from going to. Let that sink in for a moment.

** [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheKingInYellow?from=Main.TheKingInYellow Johnny Carcosa, a character who wears a yellow mask that is strongly implied to be part of his face?]] Please...

* BareYourMidriff: Randolph Carter, and Brears both rockj this look sometimes.

* {{Fanservice}}: The majority of the nudity has the opposite effect, but the few panels of Brears undressing in her hotel room certainly qualify.

* CountryMatters: Agent Brears unleashes one of these, combined with a PrecisionFStrike, on the female cult leader [[spoiler: who's just casually informed her that when the Deep One's finished raping her, the cult will kill her.]]

* TheAntichrist: in this case, [[spoiler: it turns out to be Cthulhu!]]

* {{Asexuality}}: what the detectives (and by extension, Moore) seem to think Lovecraft was. They discuss the idea that all of Lovecraft's [[EldritchAbomination horrors]] may simply have come [[FreudWasRight from his own personal revulsion at the very idea of sex]].

* BlackDudeDiesFirst: [[spoiler: played completely straight.]] [[JustifiedTrope Possibly justified]] due to Moore's stated intentions to tackle the racism of [[Creator/HPLovecraft Lovecraft's works]]; ''YMMV'' on that one, though.

* FishPeople: again, [[Creator/HPLovecraft it's Lovecraft.]] [[spoiler: and we get to see '''exactly''' how those Deep One hybrids get made.]]

* {{Gorn}}: a few pages of it; largely downplayed in favour of altogether more disturbing imagery.
* Creator/HPLovecraft: par for the course.
* KickTheDog: The female cult leader telling Agent Brears that without her wig, she's not even that good-looking: this [[spoiler: after Brears been repeatedly raped by the cult and by their quasi-pet Deep One]].

* OccultDetective: the two protagonists. Not that they're fully aware of this at the start.
* NonMaliciousMonster: Possibly, the Deep One:[[spoiler: sure as hell he takes Agent Brear by force, multiple times]], but he doesn't seem to understand he's harming her and doesn't brutalize her wantonly, to him it's nothing more than mating. pretty much [[spoiler: the Dagon cultists, who seem to be much worse than him, rape her with his dick]]. plus, he eventually pulls out a CrowningMomentOfAwesome when [[spoiler: he understands that she's pregnant, gently brings her in the water, breaks the gate that confined her with his free hand, helps her escape, and then goes back and proceeds to rip the Dagon Cultists apart to prevent them from harming her]].
* PlaceBeyondTime: both R'lyeh and the Plateau of Leng count.

* RapeAsDrama: a '''deeply''' disquieting look at the "blasphemous rites" Lovecraft talks about in his works.

* StarfishAliens: again, par for the course.
* StockholmSyndrome: elements of this come into play [[spoiler: in the scene where Brears talks to her Deep One rapist.]]

* MentalTimeTravel: [[spoiler:Lovecraft's writing and other CthulhuMythos stories and visions of EldritchAbominations are actually a result of four-dimensional "echoes" of powerful, highly evolved beings from Earth's distant future]].

* Bowdlerize: While the series doesn't shy away from discussing Lovecraft's infamous racial hangups, the Deep One's design has been altered to conform to modern sensibilities. While the originals were described as flabby-lipped and bulgy-eyed, invoking comparisons to golliwog caricatures, the Deep One here is drawn with a lipless, sunken-eyed visage, looking like nothing so much as a humanoid coelacanth ([[AdaptationalBadass which, you have to admit, looks a whole lot cooler]]).