Providence #5
Writer – Alan Moore
Art – Jacen Burrows
Colors – Juan Rodriguez
Letters – Kurt Hathaway
Published by Avatar Press, Inc.
For a comic whose publisher regularly bills it as “the horror event of the year,” Providence has until this point been rather light on the scares. Sure, it’s had its close encounters. Black’s fascism-tinged prophetic dream in issue #3, for instance, stamps itself uncomfortably on your brain, but it’s not scary. There’s also the classic-style “monster go boo!” appearance of the demon Lillith in issue # 2, but anyone who’s ever read a similar moment in prose fiction or viewed one playing out on the cinema screen is likely to walk away more than a little underwhelmed. This can’t really be chalked up to the failure of its creators Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows, but is rather symptomatic of one of the major problems horror has in comics generally,...
Writer – Alan Moore
Art – Jacen Burrows
Colors – Juan Rodriguez
Letters – Kurt Hathaway
Published by Avatar Press, Inc.
For a comic whose publisher regularly bills it as “the horror event of the year,” Providence has until this point been rather light on the scares. Sure, it’s had its close encounters. Black’s fascism-tinged prophetic dream in issue #3, for instance, stamps itself uncomfortably on your brain, but it’s not scary. There’s also the classic-style “monster go boo!” appearance of the demon Lillith in issue # 2, but anyone who’s ever read a similar moment in prose fiction or viewed one playing out on the cinema screen is likely to walk away more than a little underwhelmed. This can’t really be chalked up to the failure of its creators Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows, but is rather symptomatic of one of the major problems horror has in comics generally,...
- 10/7/2015
- by Luke Dorian Blackwood
- SoundOnSight
Providence #4
Written by Alan Moore
Art by Jacen Burrows
Colors by Juan Rodriguez
Letters by Kurt Hathaway
Published by Avatar Press, Inc.
The thing about privilege is that it affords you the ability to ignore the things that make you uncomfortable even when those things are absurdly apparent. This isn’t to say that the privileged are free from merely acknowledging the plight of those without privilege, but it does allow them to more easily overlook the reasons for things being the way they are. In the fourth issue of Providence from writer Alan Moore and artist Jacen Burrows — a horror comic as much about issues of racism, bigotry, and social unrest as it is about the eldritch and the weird, perhaps even more so — the creators manage to weave the issue of privilege in and around some classic genre fiction tropes, giving us an exploration of the topic while...
Written by Alan Moore
Art by Jacen Burrows
Colors by Juan Rodriguez
Letters by Kurt Hathaway
Published by Avatar Press, Inc.
The thing about privilege is that it affords you the ability to ignore the things that make you uncomfortable even when those things are absurdly apparent. This isn’t to say that the privileged are free from merely acknowledging the plight of those without privilege, but it does allow them to more easily overlook the reasons for things being the way they are. In the fourth issue of Providence from writer Alan Moore and artist Jacen Burrows — a horror comic as much about issues of racism, bigotry, and social unrest as it is about the eldritch and the weird, perhaps even more so — the creators manage to weave the issue of privilege in and around some classic genre fiction tropes, giving us an exploration of the topic while...
- 9/8/2015
- by Luke Dorian Blackwood
- SoundOnSight
Providence #3
Written by Alan Moore
Art by Jacen Burrows
Colors by Juan Rodriguez
Letters by Kurt Hathaway
Published by Avatar Press, Inc.
We rejoin Alan Moore’s and Jacen Burrows’ Providence to find American life, as our protagonist newspaper man/aspiring author Robert Black specifically notes, in a state of upheaval. Prohibition has just passed. Mobs of angry, out-of-work actors crowd the streets of Manhattan, evoking parallels in people’s minds to the all-too-recent revolutions in Russia. These nuggets of history are not thrown into the story haphazardly, and play out along with some important pieces of commentary from members of the cast. But it’s important to note who’s making these comments, and what demographics are included — or not included — when it comes to the pages illustrating the crowds during the 1919 Actors’ Equity Association strike. If you guessed these pages are dominated by the perspective of white people...
Written by Alan Moore
Art by Jacen Burrows
Colors by Juan Rodriguez
Letters by Kurt Hathaway
Published by Avatar Press, Inc.
We rejoin Alan Moore’s and Jacen Burrows’ Providence to find American life, as our protagonist newspaper man/aspiring author Robert Black specifically notes, in a state of upheaval. Prohibition has just passed. Mobs of angry, out-of-work actors crowd the streets of Manhattan, evoking parallels in people’s minds to the all-too-recent revolutions in Russia. These nuggets of history are not thrown into the story haphazardly, and play out along with some important pieces of commentary from members of the cast. But it’s important to note who’s making these comments, and what demographics are included — or not included — when it comes to the pages illustrating the crowds during the 1919 Actors’ Equity Association strike. If you guessed these pages are dominated by the perspective of white people...
- 8/14/2015
- by Luke Dorian Blackwood
- SoundOnSight
Providence #2
Writer – Alan Moore
Art – Jacen Burrows
Colors – Juan Rodriguez
Letters – Kurt Hathaway
Publisher – Avatar Press
In the concluding line of Providence #1, our protagonist Robert Black lamented the death of his lover and his failures as a writer with the line “I never want to dream again,” written in his commonplace book. But as his trail of The Book of the Wisdom of the Stars heats up in issue #2, it seems that while Robert Black may be done with dreams, dreams are not quite done with Robert Black.
With Providence being a Lovecraft deconstruction so intent on blurring the lines between reality and narrative, it seems strange that we had to wait all the way until issue #2 before the fine line between reality and dreams became a prominent theme. Dreams are one of the most mysterious aspects of day-to-day existence, a near-daily, personal indulgence in fictions seemingly without origin, narrative causality,...
Writer – Alan Moore
Art – Jacen Burrows
Colors – Juan Rodriguez
Letters – Kurt Hathaway
Publisher – Avatar Press
In the concluding line of Providence #1, our protagonist Robert Black lamented the death of his lover and his failures as a writer with the line “I never want to dream again,” written in his commonplace book. But as his trail of The Book of the Wisdom of the Stars heats up in issue #2, it seems that while Robert Black may be done with dreams, dreams are not quite done with Robert Black.
With Providence being a Lovecraft deconstruction so intent on blurring the lines between reality and narrative, it seems strange that we had to wait all the way until issue #2 before the fine line between reality and dreams became a prominent theme. Dreams are one of the most mysterious aspects of day-to-day existence, a near-daily, personal indulgence in fictions seemingly without origin, narrative causality,...
- 7/14/2015
- by Luke Dorian Blackwood
- SoundOnSight
Providence #1
Writer – Alan Moore
Art – Jacen Burrows
Colors – Juan Rodriguez
Letters – Kurt Hathaway
Publisher – Avatar Press
On its surface, the story of Providence is the story of two genre fiction visionaries who in practice couldn’t be more dissimilar. One died a good decade-plus before the other was born. One wrote mostly prose fiction and probably would have despised the funny books that are the other’s stock-in-trade. One deals mostly in existential dread while the other routinely deals in sex, love, heartbreak, death, and all the messy bits of individual human existence. But Providence aims to find some middle ground between the two.
It’s appropriate that Providence, the long-awaited Lovecraft deconstruction comic miniseries, should come this year, the 125th anniversary of Lovecraft’s birth. No matter what Lovecraft’s place among the pantheon of great horror-fantasy writers might be, it’s a matter of course that modern critical...
Writer – Alan Moore
Art – Jacen Burrows
Colors – Juan Rodriguez
Letters – Kurt Hathaway
Publisher – Avatar Press
On its surface, the story of Providence is the story of two genre fiction visionaries who in practice couldn’t be more dissimilar. One died a good decade-plus before the other was born. One wrote mostly prose fiction and probably would have despised the funny books that are the other’s stock-in-trade. One deals mostly in existential dread while the other routinely deals in sex, love, heartbreak, death, and all the messy bits of individual human existence. But Providence aims to find some middle ground between the two.
It’s appropriate that Providence, the long-awaited Lovecraft deconstruction comic miniseries, should come this year, the 125th anniversary of Lovecraft’s birth. No matter what Lovecraft’s place among the pantheon of great horror-fantasy writers might be, it’s a matter of course that modern critical...
- 5/30/2015
- by Luke Dorian Blackwood
- SoundOnSight
Yup, it’s that time of year again.
When I completed this list I realized that it contains exactly zero Marvel titles and zero DC “main line” titles. This was not intentional, as I’m enjoying several from both publishers: Magneto, Loki: Agent Of Asgard, Batman, and Constantine to name a few—in fact, I’m sure everyone is sick of my spouting the praises of Snyder and Capullo’s Batman run—but this year, the comics that caught my attention were less of the superhero and more of the bizarre, the outcast, the deadly, the horrifying. Basically, if it made me go Wtf?, it made the list. And there is a lot of glorious WTFness going on in comics right now.
10. Bodies
Story: Si Spencer
Art: Meghan Hetrick, Phil Winslade, Tula Lotay, Dean Ormston
Colors: Lee Loughridge
Letters: Dezi Sienty, Taylor Esposito
Publisher: Vertigo
A riveting miniseries that has...
When I completed this list I realized that it contains exactly zero Marvel titles and zero DC “main line” titles. This was not intentional, as I’m enjoying several from both publishers: Magneto, Loki: Agent Of Asgard, Batman, and Constantine to name a few—in fact, I’m sure everyone is sick of my spouting the praises of Snyder and Capullo’s Batman run—but this year, the comics that caught my attention were less of the superhero and more of the bizarre, the outcast, the deadly, the horrifying. Basically, if it made me go Wtf?, it made the list. And there is a lot of glorious WTFness going on in comics right now.
10. Bodies
Story: Si Spencer
Art: Meghan Hetrick, Phil Winslade, Tula Lotay, Dean Ormston
Colors: Lee Loughridge
Letters: Dezi Sienty, Taylor Esposito
Publisher: Vertigo
A riveting miniseries that has...
- 12/22/2014
- by Holly Interlandi
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
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