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* CasualDangerDialogue: Played with. While Brears and her boss talk about her torment and report, they are at the front of the antique store where the cultist hideout is. The panels jump between their very mundane conversation and all the high-octane action happening inside, mere few meters away. At one point, a member of the SWAT team who was (non-fatally) shot inside joins their conversation, while being treated by paramedics.

* EvilOldFolks: The youngest of the cultists are middle aged, but most of them are elderly. You get to see them all naked. And that's probably the least disturbing images.

* MushroomSamba: Discussed. The FBI won't accept Brears first report, in which she described in detail being continuously raped by the Deep One. She was drugged and without her contacts. The cultists probably had [[PeopleInRubberSuits some guy in a suit]] for a fetish or other fucked-up thing. The related conversation happens before Brears' boss is introduced to the body of the very Deep One Brears described.

* TheAntichrist: In this case, it turns out to be Cthulhu!
%%* ApocalypseMaiden: Agent Merrill Brears by the end.

* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: 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.

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

* EldritchAbomination: It's based on Lovecraft. Agent Brears turns out to be Cthulhu's mother!

* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Johnny Carcosa.
* {{Gorn}}: A few pages of it; largely downplayed in favor of altogether more disturbing imagery.
* IdiotBall: The climax of Issue 2 hinges on the normally intelligent and savvy Brears and Lamper, while undercover as a Lovecraft-fetish couple, obeying the Dagon cultists' instructions to strip naked, and for Brears to remove her [[BlindWithoutEm contact lenses]], before entering the pool. They even leave their guns behind in the change room, where the suspicious co-chief cultist Joanie discovers them, and promptly shoots Lamper, then holds Brears at gunpoint.

* NobodyPoops: 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 the Deep One smells (and tastes) her urine, and discovers that she's pregnant.

* RapeAsDrama: A '''deeply''' disquieting look at the "blasphemous rites" Lovecraft talks about in his works.
* ReallyGetsAround: Agent Merrill Brears is a recovering sex addict. This is not played for laughs.

* StockholmSyndrome: Elements of this come into play in the scene where Brears talks to her One rapist.
** Partially justified as he is a NonMaliciousMonster who is not really keen on human interactions (since then, all humans he met were eager for sex, so he probably didn't understand consent well), and he actually stops when she asks him.

* AdaptationalWimp: The Deep One again. It's portrayed as a dumb brute that can't talk or communicate with Agent Brears, while in Lovecraft, Deep Ones were highly intelligent and sophisticated creatures that had no trouble negotiating complex treaties with humans.

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

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, [[DoingItForTheArt I'm always going to make sure I try and make it the best possible story I can.]]"

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

* ApocalypseMaiden: Agent Merrill Brears by the end.

* BiggerIsBetterInBed: The Dagon cultists react positively to the size of the Deep One's penis, but Brears finds it painful after a while.

** Sax in the mental hospital has carved a swastika into his own forehead. The mental hospital clerk refers to him as "Der Führer".

* {{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 from his own personal revulsion at the very idea of sex.
** Sax is also asexual, as a consequence of being more or less a modern take on Lovecraft himself.

-->-- '''Alan Moore'''

** This is at least partly due to the originally short story version of ''The Courtyard'' having been written in the 1990s but taking place in 2004.

* DomedHometown: One clue that this is not our universe is that cities have pollution-filtering domes over them.

Received a prequel/sequel entitled ''ComicBook/Providence''.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: ''The Courtyard'' had not yet established the later books' LiteraryAgentHypothesis approach to Lovecraft and his work, nor the use of real places like Salem instead of Lovecraft's [[LovecraftCountry fictional communities]] and different names for the "real world" counterparts of his characters. Also, the version of Pickman (or "Pitman")'s painting "Subway Accident" that appears is completely different from the one depicted in ''ComicBook/Providence'', featuring what appears to be the Jersey Devil and several other different monsters instead of just the Ghouls.

** In a rare, and somewhat inexplicable, non-Lovecraft one, when Johnny Carcosa confronts the police he's dressed ''exactly'' like [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Edward Elric]] of all people. ''May'' have something to do with the fact Lovecraft wrote a story called ''The Alchemist'' as a lad.

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

* EldritchAbomination: [[CaptainObvious It's based on Lovecraft.]] Agent Brears turns out to be Cthulhu's mother!

* NonMaliciousMonster: The Deep One; he takes Agent Brears by force, multiple times, but he doesn't seem to understand that 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.

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."

->''" [[HarsherInHindsight Looking back]],[[OOCIsSeriousBusiness yes]], [[EveryoneHasStandards maybe I have gone too far.....]]"''

** Partially justified as he is a NonMaliciousMonster who is not really keen on human interactions(since then, all humans he met were eager for sex, so he probably didn't understand consent well), and he actually stops when she asks him.