A review by lbrex
Providence Act 1 by Alan Moore

5.0

I had too much coffee a few hours before going to bed last night, so of course, awake at 2, I turned to reading this. It seemed more focused than some of Alan Moore's previous work, and the blend between comics and written narrative was fascinating. It does have a mood and menace that reminds me of Lovecraft, with only occasional scenes of horror displayed in relation to the narrator's bisexual exploits and his attempts to write a novel about underground occultism in New England. The visit to the farm towards the end of this volume was especially strange and unsettling (when you're reading it at 3 am), and I liked the way that Moore included the bizarre crayon drawings made by Leticia Wheatley. Fans of Lovecraft, Moore, horror, and graphic novels more generally should find this interesting. I'm looking forward to reading the next "act."

Update in December 2018: read this again so that I could finish the second act. Most of what I said in the above review still stands, though I would say that the handwritten journal sections felt more tedious this time around. That said, I noticed more details, such as Black's continued use of the pronoun "they" to hide the gender of his love interests.