Product Description

Just in time for the sequel in 2009, Alan Moore's haunting masterpiece, The Courtyard, is available in color for the first time! The most celebrated writer in the industry, Alan Moore, teams up with brilliant artist Jacen Burrows, to unleash this timeless tale of Lovecraftian psychological horror. FBI man Aldo Sax has an amazing service record with the FBI. His legendary skills at piecing together the most baffling of cases has gotten him assigned to what may be his most confusing case yet. Several murders - no, more like lethal dismemberments - from the most unlikely of suspects just don't addd up. And what few leads there are, all point to The Courtyard. This special collected edition of the series features an introduction by Garth Ennis!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #36968 in Books
• Published on: 2009-02-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 56 pages

Customer Reviews

For the Alan Moore completist only?
When Picasso became famous his smallest doodles and scribblings became highly desirable pieces of art. The same is happening with the works of Alan Moore. He has produced at least 3 of the top ten best comic books/graphic novels of the last 25 years, but as well as Watchmen, V for vendetta, Marvelman, Swamp Thing, From Hell and The Man of Tomorrow he has a number of lesser works which have been snapped up by publishers and rushed out in trade paperback format.

The Courtyard is an Alan Moore doodle on the back of a paper napkin. A rogue FBI agent comes up against the Cthulu mythos of H.P.Lovecraft with entirely predictable results. It's at a nice cheap price which is just as well because this is just 2 black and white comics stuck together. It takes less than 20 minutes to read, then you can go back and look for the references, in-jokes and clues that litter Moore's best work - only there aren't any here. Then you may notice that the credit page lists Alan Moore as consulting editor and "story by"; with Anthony Johnston responsible for the "sequential adaptation". This was a short story by Moore from somewhere else that has been turned into a comicbook by other people.

Not great IMHO.

I keep coming back...
Recently introduced to the world of Lovecaft and his Cthulhu Mythos, a good friend of mine employed me to paint the cover image of this graphic novel onto a wall in his house. It turned out to be a great mural, and I had the chance to read 'The Courtyard' once I was done; it made me want to paint the mural on my own wall. What I found was a fantastically engrossing, yet short, story of how bizarre and seductive the Mythos truly is. I am now (perhaps wildly and pointlessly) trying to deduce the translation of some of the lanaguage used.

Though simple, I love it, and enjoy reading it again and again (scarily, rather like the characters in the story). Though it's not actually completely Alan Moore, that's the way with so many graphics now, but the end product is still high in merit. The work is there, and is highly enjoyable.