Avatar Press launched a Kickstarter campaign today for handsome-looking new slipcase edition of Providence, which includes Neonomicon, plus a new “Dreadful Beauty” art book featuring Jacen Burrows 100+ covers.
The Kickstarter campaign also has a dozen more variant covers for Providence #12, with previously unused art. There are options for inexpensive digital editions to very high-end editions signed by Moore and Burrows.
At the time of this posting, the campaign has already far surpassed its $8,300 goal, with more than $40,000 pledged. The high-end limited edition autographed, remarqued $599 package is already sold out, but there are still plenty of packages to choose from for the discerning Providence reader.
Facts in the Case of Alan Moore's Providence 
Thanks for the tip! I would have missed this.
Glenn
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At the other end of the price/format spectrum, could we have prose book collecting all Moore’s Providence scripts, please?
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Moore has said that his scripts have too many little notes to the artist to be publishable– he likes having a place where he can joke around that’s not for public consumption. So we may be waiting a long time on that.
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A damn shame, but it seems accurate.
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He’s allowed publication of a set of his From Hell scripts, though. Why would Providence be so different?
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I look forward to seeing how they structure the books out considering how they were with the comics and back-matter journal elements with the separate issues.
And honestly, even if they don’t ever publish the scripts, I would love to see a Providence Companion like the From Hell Companion written by Eddie Campbell: though I don’t know if Jacen Burrows wants to do that … or if he isn’t doing his own version with Dreadful Beauty.
Either way, I look forward to something along those lines. There is just so much to explore in this.
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And this could only happen with excerpts from the scripts, so like That Fuzzy Bastard said, seeing the complete scripts themselves or excerpted and expanded on with commentary by Burrows and his illustrations might take some time: as even The From Hell Companion took some time to happen.
And if any of Alan Moore’s works deserves a From Hell Companion treatment, it is definitely Providence.
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I was hoping for an omnibus edition of the 12 issues, rather than three hardcovers, still a great slipcase though.
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For those of you who familiar with Avatar’s usual practices, do you think they will eventually publish a more modest collected edition, like a regular trade paperback for example? Or should I aim to get the three volumes (Acts 1-3) as an alternative to the (too expensive for me) Kickstarter version?
Thanks.
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They will milk the expensive limited editions for a bit… but I would guess a year from now they’ll publish a paperback collected edition, too.
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The hardcover volumes are $13.51 (V1) and $19.12 (V2) on Amazon. V3 isn’t listed yet, but I can’t see the paperback being much cheaper.
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8 Visions of Madness sets left! You can still get the Dreadful Beauty Hardcover – DUAL SIGNED by Moore and Burrows!
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Does anyone know if the version of Neonomicon included in the Kickstarter set includes the Courtyard Companion ?
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I think it’s very unlikely
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I agree with Joe. It’s sad and I think it’d be amazing if that had been or could be an option or an add-on but like Joe said, unlikely.
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I posted the question on Jacen’s facebook thread about the kickstarter. Maybe he can clarify.
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Jacen Burrows – No, I think it’ll be the standard collection which has Courtyard and Neo. Probably have to order the companion on its own. Assuming they have anymore. I doubt it was kept in print.
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Thanks everyone for your replies.
Looks like I’ll have to find a copy of the Companion through ebay or Abebooks.
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Or you could buy it from the publisher https://www.comcav.net/products/alan-moores-the-courtyard-companion-tpb
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Doh! I hadn’t even thought to look there and even with shipping from the US to the UK, it’s 50% cheaper than the cheapest version I could find.
Thanks Joe!
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The Dreadful Beauty TPB is now up for pre-order on Amazon’s UK site with a release date of 18th August:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dreadful-Beauty-Providence-Jacen-Burrows/dp/1592912958/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1493369649&sr=1-5
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Act 3, Dreadful Beauty (looks like just hardcover) are available individually from the publisher here https://www.comcav.net/collections/recent-releases
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