So let's get that horrific nastiness out of the way first since it appears to be the central issue for some. here on Goodreads, reviews are mixed many readers have reacted very negatively to all of the horrific nastiness on display. it was also removed from a public library earlier this year due to its shuddery subject matter. Lovecraft, and gruesome bloody slaughter are all delivered in a timely fashion.Ĭelebrated genius Alan Moore's graphic novel was, per the author's own admission, done for a paycheck and so that's that. murder, rape, rage, despair, racism, homophobia, a swinger party, a cult, hallucinatory freak-outs, nightmarish dreamscapes, Deep Ones, Cthulhu, Nyarlathotep, H.P. some time later, two more agents follow in his footsteps. So bummed about this.Ī sociopathic FBI profiler finds a dark path and takes it. didn't require all the detention and rape? You could have gotten there in ways that were so much more interesting and less predictably, boringly, tropily misogynist. (Spoiler, although who cares because don't read this: What if "R'lyeh under the waters" didn't mean under the literal ocean but instead inside a uterus.) It just. On top of the fact that I'm mad at Alan Moore about this misogynist nonsense is the fact that the ending, and what it adds to the Chthulu mythos, *is* kind of cool.
No big deal, right? Sure she wouldn't mind going right back in there, immediately. Which is presented as not even a big deal to her! She's an FBI agent and after the monster lets her out (spoiler, once it has knocked her up, which she does not really seem to mind) she just, like, goes back to the room where she was held, to investigate the crime scene.
I think mostly I'm pissed because this is on so many "best horror comics" lists I've read, and not a single one of them mentions the fact that it's just. If that sounds nice to you, you do not sound nice to me. Wow, this is a book about a woman who struggles with sex addiction being locked in a room and sexually assaulted by a monster over the course of a week, which solves all her problems.
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