Mental Time Travel: Lovecraft's writings and other Cthulhu Mythos stories and visions of Eldritch Abominations are actually a result of four-dimensional "echoes" of powerful, highly evolved beings from Earth's distant future. Adaptational Villainy: Something the Deep Ones get hit with in a lot of adaptations. In the original The Shadow Over Innsmouth, there was never any implication that the Deep Ones were rapists, or that the humans they had sex with (mostly men in the original text, but that's less sensational) weren't consenting. The comic book adaptation was planned to appear in Alan Moore's Yuggoth Cultures and Other Growths, but it was published as a limited series by Avatar in January and February 2003.

This is actually played with quite interestingly. In the original story, The Courtyard, it seems like it's just another story in the Cthulhu Mythos Universe taking place in modern times. It isn't until the second chapter of Neonomicon that Brears mentioned H.P. Lovecraft. Sax just never made the connection in the earlier story because he'd never heard of him, it having been written right around the time Lovecraft's works were only just starting to begin the huge resurgence in popularity they gained through the Internet. Well, it goes the only place it can: to the end. It’s a violent denouement, a wrap-up, and an epilogue. As with even the most throwaway of Alan Moore’s work, the narrative design is impeccable, bringing together the story’s threads, contextualizing the Lovecraftian facts strewn throughout the story, and giving us the twist ending to make the whole ordeal in some way meaningful. The sexual violence of the story’s middle is replaced with a more readily acceptable Kiefer-Sutherland-style FBI shoot-out; the nasty cultists and the hulking behemoth get theirs, as they must. But by the end, the true villain of the story stands revealed. These are the mountains of madness, after all, and we’re following our heroes to it’s peak.She (my 14-year-old) came into my living room and asked me what a certain word meant, and I said, ‘Honey, where did you hear that word?’ I said, ‘That’s a nasty word. We don’t use that in the house,” mother Carrie Gaske told local news broadcaster WSPA in June. Gaske went on to file a challenge to the novel over its “sexually graphic” images. Japan Takes Over the World: In proper Cyberpunk fashion, Pachinko arcades are a common sight in the grim, gritty early 2000s as seen from the '90s America of The Courtyard. The Asian Financial Crisis was still a few years away when the prose story the comic was based on was written.

Did They or Didn't They?: Lamper and Brears seem perfectly at ease with getting naked around each other, and Lamper gets very defensive when a fellow agent asks if they're having sex, but nothing sexual is ever confirmed. In a rare, and somewhat inexplicable, non-Lovecraft one, when Johnny Carcosa confronts the police he's dressed exactly like Edward Elric of all people. May have something to do with the fact Lovecraft wrote a story called The Alchemist as a lad. The leg armor on the asylum guards also looks suspiciously similar to the armor plating on Ed's artificial leg. In The Courtyard he's merely a casual bigot who uses a lot of racial slurs, which seems to be Moore trying to stay true to the tone of actual Lovecraft stories, but he goes whole-hog with it once he loses his mind. Her daughter had borrowed the book from the adult section of the library, using an adult card, according to WSPA. A committee then voted to keep the book on shelves, WSPA reported, but their decision has been overruled by the library’s executive director Beverly James, who “did not feel the book’s content was appropriate for the library system’s collection”. Depraved Bisexual: All of the Dagon cultists qualify, participating in the sex ritual regardless of gender. The cult leader's wife takes her own turn raping Agent Brears.Rape as Drama: A deeply disquieting look at the "blasphemous rites" Lovecraft talks about in his works. In “The Courtyard,” Alan Moore’s contribution to The Starry Wisdom, a 1994 anthology in which notable writers from J. G. Ballard to Ramsey Campbell (and even Grant Morrison) write stories in the mold of Lovecraft, we meet a racist, unhinged narrator who happens to be an FBI agent. According to his unreliable narration, his investigation into a series of murders in Red Hook has led him to infiltrate a cult-like nightclub where he gets hooked into Aklo, a potent white powder that gives the narrator visions of Lovecraftian nightmares.