What are some good Lovecraftian comics...

Technically there is some stuff it build off from Moore’s other Lovecraft fanfics, but those were pretty shit and you can read Providence without catching the references.

You're thinking of The Courtyard and Neonomicon. If you read them, you'll get introduced to some characters a lot earlier that might dispel a little bit of confusion, but those two books are not strictly necessary.
It would be best if you read some of Lovecraft's fiction before Providence. Again, it's not strictly necessary, but you'll enjoy the little hints and nods.

Hellboy

Lovecraft's works are trash, Read something inspired by a decent creator like Robert E Howard

Howard loved Lovecraft.

You act like this isn't exactly what the point of the Hulk or the Thing is.

>they're not written by Moore or someone like him
Id say he could never have invented such characters and that he'd even have trouble writing his own stories without them.

This they referenced each other's canon in their works.

Thanks anons

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Oh no, you absolutely NEED to read Neonomicon for the ending to make any sense.

Also, re: Bobby being gay.
Moore purposely made him gay and made the series much more explicit about it's horror, particularly anything sexual, because Lovecraft himself shyed away from it. Neonomicon seems a bit gratuitous with it's Fish Rape, but it's something a huge chunk of Lovecraft's work alludes to again and again, but was deemed too horrible by the man's own sensibilities to ever talk about. That and his own apparent asexuality (or possibly unconscious closet homosexuality, maybe). Moore sees Lovecraft as very much indicative of American phobias, and as such puts them all in the comic rather than skirt around them like most Lovecraftian writers do.

The series is particularly great if you're already familiar with Lovecraft's own short stories. It's a METICULOUSLY researched and well read comic, both in how deep the fictional references are, and down to it's choice of locations. That's not necessary to enjoy it though, but it adds a really fun extra layer. I'd recommend checking out the Fact's in the Case of Alan Moore's Providence blog after each chapter to see what you missed.

But yeah, I really loved it. Wasn't too crazy about the art, but the writing was really fucking good and felt like a breath of fresh air in the genre.

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I second Hellboy.

You don't need to read Neonomicon, just the part in the asylum. Which in turn requires you to read Courtyard for the setup to that.

>you don't need to read Neonomicon....just the end and the beginning

Yeah, it'll be fun reading that conversation at the end that references the rest of the story, that you don't know about because you haven't read it...

Yeah, Courtyard and Neonomicon are necessary.
The latter is fucking awful, but you need to read it.

Mainly it's flaws are that Moore didn't really rate or rank Lovecraft that much, and in interviews and such it was written under some severely dumb assumptions on Moore's part.

Providence was a lot more careful and intelligible about Lovecraft's work and person, and it's wonderful. In fact, a plot thread in Providence makes Neonomicon....kinda interesting. It doesn't make it a good read, but it makes it a fascinating part of the saga.

>Mainly it's flaws are that Moore didn't really rate or rank Lovecraft that much, and in interviews and such it was written under some severely dumb assumptions on Moore's part.

I don't know if I agree about that. He has an appreciation for him that even hardcore Lovecraft fans rarely do in that he thinks his writing was actually good and attempted somewhat post-modern tricks (like building up a very solid world with facts and dates, then dropping an indescribable "thing" at the end) that often times worked. Most fans really like to shit on him as a bad writer, saying that the best thing about his stories were the ideas, but I think how delivered the ideas actually was effective.

Moore made me appreciate Lovecraft in a new light. He just didn't like him as a person.

He made some leaps about how Lovecraft was asexual. which informed the heightened sexuality of Neonomicon, and even admitted in Providence interviews that at the time he didn't really think much of Lovecraft as a writer.
In fact, way back was Providence was in the planning stages, Moore was going into it from the basis of an out-and-out satire.

He's said that doing the research for Providence, that he started to understand really what made Lovecraft's writing so effective, the the huge gap between quality in Neonomicon and Providence does seem to corroborate that.

It's Alan Moore. Shut the fuck up and read it.
HOORT HOOOOORT

A study in emerald
Nameless
King's N.
Gideon Falls (maybe/maybe not, good vibes tho)

Huh? Even the fish rape has MAJOR consequences in the last issue of Providence

Nameless is not good.

Lovecraft's writing isn't good either, but I like them both.

I like Lovecraft but was disappointed in Nameless

I thought the two volumes of adaptions were pretty good. Providence is also pretty good, unless you're some /pol/ack the gay stuff probably won't bother you.

Brink (Abnett/Culbard)
Infinite Dark