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For readers unfamiliar with fishing, the wooden crate-like objects are lobster traps.

For a general explanation of the city domes, see issue #1, P9,p4.

The structure is the dome over Salem, MA.

A new Brears – someone who connects with the Old Ones, has a purpose, is self-confident – was formed in a dark, confined place aka uterus, traveled unconsciously through a water-filled tunnel aka birth canal, then entered into the vast unknown of Nature.”

Commenter jaxxup points out, “This is also a symbolic (re)birth for Brears.

The water perhaps (as in Jungian dream-interpretation) symbolizes the unconscious. Brears has escaped confinement – symbolically, she’s now outside the grid and dome of the city, and into the vastness of the ocean.

The woman pictured is FBI Agent Merril Brears, protagonist of Neonomicon.Cthulhu himself is described as: “A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings but it was the general outline of the whole which made it most shockingly frightful.” Tentacles are infamously associated with creatures of the Cthulhu Mythos.This narrative makes an interesting narrative counterpoint with Aldo Sax’ reaction at the end of issue. “He’s looking at me like he’s horrified” is probably a reference to the popular (but unwarranted) conception that the asexual Lovecraft was phobic about women and sex, although the image of a woman with a tentacle emerging from her vagina might put anyone off.“He tells me he feels ugly” references that Lovecraft considered himself “homely.” ( Selected Letters of H.Panels 1-4 are a fixed-camera sequence.Lovecraft lived with his aunts at 10 Barnes Street in Providence, both before and after his marriage, and from 1933 he and his surviving aunt Annie Gamwell lived at 66 College Street.The structure on the right is the dome over Salem, MA.The caption text is apparently Agent Brears recounting a dream – although it’s not clear when possibly she blacked out before surfacing.It depicts presumably Agent Brears walking down a bloodstained tunnel that doesn’t quite match any site shown in the issue. The cover image works mostly to avoids spoiling developments in the issue.Three months later Brears re-visits the imprisoned Aldo Sax. She calls in an FBI SWAT team who dispatch with the cultists and the Deep One. General: Agent Merril Brears surfaces in the ocean. If there’s stuff we missed or got wrong, let us know in comments. Note: some of this stuff is obvious, but you never know who’s reading this and what their exposure is. Writer: Alan Moore, Artist: Jacen Burrows, based on works of H.P. 4 “The Lurker Within” (25 pages, February-March 2011) Neonomicon #4 cover, art by Jacen Burrowsīelow are annotations for Neonomicon, No.