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** [[Main/The King in Yellow]]Johnny Carcosa, a character who wears a yellow mask that is strongly implied to be part of his face?[[Main/The King in Yellow]] Please...

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

* DomedHometown

Neonomicon is a four part comic miniseries by 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 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 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."

!!Provides examples of:

* ShoutOut: ''DiscussedTrope''; the miniseries stops dancing around the issue of the ludicrous number of Lovecraft 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...]]

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

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 [[ItGotWorse things take a turn for the worse...]] No, not even a turn for the worse, more of a straight nosedive straight downhill from there.

* 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]]. [[ItGotWorse It's all downhill from there. So very, very far downhill...]]

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

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 [[ItGotWorse things take a turn for the worse...]]

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

* 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.]]

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

* 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]].

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

* Country Matters: Agent Brears unleashes a [[TearJerker heartbreaking]] 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.]]

The comic tells the story of FBI agents Brears and Lemper 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 [[ItGotWorse things take a turn for the worse...]]

* AlienGeometries: The plateau of Leng definitely qualifies. ''YMMV'' on R'lyeh[[spoiler: it's actually Agent Lemper's '''womb''']].

* ApocalypseMaiden: [[spoiler: Agent Merrill Lemper by the end.]]
* ArcadianInterlude: [[spoiler: Lemper has one, mid-rape. Only it's in R'lyeh. With Nyarlathotep.]]

* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler: ''YMMV'', but arguably Agent Lamper. 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.]]

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

* ReallyGetsAround: Agent Merrill Lamper is a recovering sex addict. This is not played for laughs.

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

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

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

* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Johnny Carcosa.
* AlienGeometries: The plateau of Leng definitely qualifies. ''YMMV'' on R'lyeh[[spoiler: it's actually Agent Lemper's '''womb''']].
* ApocalypseMaiden: [[spoiler: Agent Merrill Lemper by the end.]]

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

* {{Squick}}: '''Dear God''' where to begin?

* 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]].

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

* Squick: '''Dear God''' where to begin?

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

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 Avatar Press, 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."

* 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.]]