Alan Moore's The Courtyard
| Alan Moore's The Courtyard | |
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Cover of Alan Moore's The Courtyard (2004), trade paperback collected edition. Art by Jacen Burrows.
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Avatar Press |
| Schedule | Monthly |
| Format | Limited series |
| Genre | |
| Publication date | January – February 2003 |
| Number of issues | 2 |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) |
Alan Moore (original story) Antony Johnston (adaptation) |
| Artist(s) | Jacen Burrows |
| Creator(s) |
Alan Moore Jacen Burrows |
| Editor(s) |
William A. Christensen Alan Moore |
| Collected editions | |
| Deluxe Hardcover Set | |
Alan Moore's The Courtyard is a 2-issue comic book mini-series adaptation of a 1994 prose story written by Alan Moore, published in 2003 by Avatar Press. It was adapted for comics by Antony Johnston, with artwork by Jacen Burrows, and Alan Moore as "consulting editor".
The original 1994 prose story had first appeared in an anthology The Starry Wisdom: A Tribute to H. P. Lovecraft (Creation Books, 1995, ).
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.
Aldo Sax is an FBI agent specializing in "anomaly theory", a method by which he correlates seemingly unrelated data into a cohesive whole, and currently investigating three seemingly unrelated ritual murder cases around the US. His investigation leads him to a nightclub in Red Hook, where he hears of a drug called Aklo, peddled by a man with a lisp and a veil named Johnny Carcosa. Sax sets up a meet with Carcosa at the dealer's apartment building, where Sax is given a hallucinogenic white powder as a prelude to the Aklo. Carcosa speaks an unknown language to Sax, who experiences visions of spectral planes and hideous primordial creatures, while understanding the truth that Aklo is not a drug, but the language Carcosa spoke to him. The visions, given to him by the Aklo, drive Sax to murder his neighbor using the same Modus Operandi as the murderers he was investigating.
The series was collected in a trade paperback in 2003, a second version (the Companion) was released in 2004, which contained annotations by Lovecraft scholar N. G. Christakos and reprinted Moore's original short story. A limited edition hardcover set of the two volumes was also released in 2004. In 2009 a full color version was released separately, as well as in a collection with Moore's sequel series Neonomicon.
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