Number of issues 11 (of 12) Colorist(s) Juan Rodriguez | Publication date May 2015 – present Letterer(s) Kurt Hathaway | |
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Creator(s) Alan MooreJacen Burrows Similar Neonomicon, Alan Moore's The Court, Alan Moore's Yuggoth, Fashion Beast, Crossed | ||
Providence is a twelve-issue comic book limited series written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Jacen Burrows, published by American company Avatar Press from 2015 to 2017. The story is both a prequel and sequel to Moore's previous stories Neonomicon and The Courtyard, and is part of H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos.
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Publication history
Alan Moore heavily researched the series - in a six-month period he acquired "nearly every book of [Lovecraft] criticism that’s been written".
Plot
The series is set in 1919 and centres on Robert Black, a homosexual writer, initially working in New York as a reporter for the New York Herald. Black takes a leave of absence from his journalism career, with the intention of writing a Great American Novel using "the “Outsiders”, perhaps “occult Outsiders”—whom he is on the trail of across New England—as a metaphor for social outsiders".
Reception
The series has met with critical acclaim, holding an average score of 9.1 out of 10 at review aggregator website Comic Book Roundup.
Collected editions
The series is being collected into individual volumes:
