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Summary: Beware, this is not your usual Moore comic
Review: Readers who know Neil Gaiman's Sandman universe will find a lot of familiar territory in the world of Promethea. Like the Sandman saga, we find a narrative set on the liminal landscape between the psychic realm and the material realm. Here we have the "Immateria" instead of the Dreaming. Also like the Sandman, the premise becomes a vehicle for exploring both worlds and their intersection. Unlike the Sandman, the chronicles of Promethea are flat, dry, two-dimensional, and predictable. A lot of superhero-style action will disappoint readers looking for the sophisticated antiheroes of Watchmen or the visionary storytelling of From Hell. I recommend that new Moore readers look to those works instead.
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Summary: Moore's not on top of his game
Review: Readers who know Neil Gaiman's Sandman universe will find a lot of familiar territory in the world of Promethea. Like the Sandman saga, we find a narrative set on the liminal landscape between the psychic realm and the material realm. Here we have the "Immateria" instead of the Dreaming. Also like the Sandman, the premise becomes a vehicle for exploring both worlds and their intersection. Unlike the Sandman, the chronicles of Promethea are flat, dry, two-dimensional, and predictable. A lot of superhero-style action will disappoint readers looking for the sophisticated antiheroes of Watchmen or the visionary storytelling of From Hell. I recommend that new Moore readers look to those works instead.
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Summary: Comic books are not a genre, geez
Review: Sorry, just had to say that to the review below. SUPERHEROES and pseudo-mysticism. You're dismissing the fact that many, many comics have nothing to do with spandex.Promethea is an incredible story. No, it's not for everyone, yet it's one of the deepest, most complex stories that Moore has ever created. The most recent issue was AMAZING. It's all about to wrap up, and like all of Moore's larger works, everything has a point. He's been building to this incredible finale. The artwork is just gorgeous as hell, too. One of the most ambitious talents in the industry. I'm so surprised at how well he changes his style to mimic other styles depending on what's happening in the script. His covers are the best, too.
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Summary: Comic books are not a genre, geez
Review: Sorry, just had to say that to the review below. SUPERHEROES and pseudo-mysticism. You're dismissing the fact that many, many comics have nothing to do with spandex. Promethea is an incredible story. No, it's not for everyone, yet it's one of the deepest, most complex stories that Moore has ever created. The most recent issue was AMAZING. It's all about to wrap up, and like all of Moore's larger works, everything has a point. He's been building to this incredible finale. The artwork is just gorgeous as hell, too. One of the most ambitious talents in the industry. I'm so surprised at how well he changes his style to mimic other styles depending on what's happening in the script. His covers are the best, too.
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Summary: Sex, Stars and Serpents
Review: Sweet Christ. If the Harry Potter book-burners only knew about Promethea. Here we have a character who explores the history of magic via a sexually-transmitted lecture before Alan
Moore stops the story completely in order to take a 10-issue detour into the Kaballah. Promethea is as innocent as Little Nemo and so sweet that it's been endorsed by Trina Robbins. It's also arguably the most subversive comic around, not so much because of the sex or magic, but because it celebrates intelligence and personal responsibility, which is a definite double no-no these days, at least in America. And get this, Book 2 is even better.
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Summary: Moore Reinvents Wonder Woman
Review: Take Wonder Woman. Strip her of all the baranacles. Then think about all the mythology flowing through her adventures. Then stop and let Alan Moore show you how it's done. Moore marks his return to deconstructionist super-hero comics with this gorgeous, often brilliant series. While even the most diligent reader is likely to get a little lost as the star of comic learns about the legends of Promethea while taking on her mantle, the journey - at least at the beginning of this series - is truly worth it. Moore, helped by the team of Williams and Gray, forges a stunning futuristic but believable world, creates a diverse and likeable cast, and has a lot of fun. These issues are Promethea went it was still brilliant, before Moore's penchant for injecting his own religious and philosophical views into this book made later issues hard reading. But for fans who missed the Alan Moore of V for Vendetta and Watchmen, this is must reading. For fans of Wonder Woman who long for more than just action tales, this is must reading. And for fans of great art with women as real as they are sexy, you can't go wrong either.
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Summary: Moore Reinvents Wonder Woman
Review: Take Wonder Woman. Strip her of all the baranacles. Then think about all the mythology flowing through her adventures. Then stop and let Alan Moore show you how it's done. Moore marks his return to deconstructionist super-hero comics with this gorgeous, often brilliant series. While even the most diligent reader is likely to get a little lost as the star of comic learns about the legends of Promethea while taking on her mantle, the journey - at least at the beginning of this series - is truly worth it. Moore, helped by the team of Williams and Gray, forges a stunning futuristic but believable world, creates a diverse and likeable cast, and has a lot of fun. These issues are Promethea went it was still brilliant, before Moore's penchant for injecting his own religious and philosophical views into this book made later issues hard reading. But for fans who missed the Alan Moore of V for Vendetta and Watchmen, this is must reading. For fans of Wonder Woman who long for more than just action tales, this is must reading. And for fans of great art with women as real as they are sexy, you can't go wrong either.
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Summary: Only the beginning
Review: The layouts are beautiful, the Weeping Gorilla idea is great and darkly funny, and Promethea is even somewhat interesting except that the long prose foreword is repeated graphically in the first issue or two. My biggest problem is that 12 bucks and 6 comics later not much has really happened - it's like reading the first 3 chapters of a 400 page novel. So if you're looking for any kind of closure - it's not here. I picture myself reading _Promethea Book 12_ two or three years from now saying, "She *finally* understands her destiny and her powers." I would recommend waiting for a compiled version or at least waiting for book 3 to come out so you can feel like you read and finished a book rather than just sampled it.
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Summary: Graphic layouts and a trippy story
Review: The plot: Promethea is an idea - the goddess myth that changes depending on who sees her and how. "If she didn't exist we would have to make her." Yes this plot is tenuous and mystic and intends to be deep. We follow the story of college student Sophie, who is doing a term paper on the Promethea character, who reemerges in literature, pulp fiction and comics. Strangely many of the people involved in creating the art that shows Promethea also claimed to have met her. Sophie soon finds an idea that can enter our world (or at least her world - a very technologically advanced 1999 in which cars fly through a world of neon billboards).
The plot and story here were surprisingly coherent. First of course Sophie meets Promethea and begins to understand how an idea can enter the realworld and become physically real. Interspersed are back stories on how Promethea originally came to be and on the artists she has touched in past manifestations.
The graphics: The artistic style is the normal comic booky style done very well. However the layouts are spectacular. Often there is a border surrounding the frames on a spread - and in that border part of the scene is taking place. Almost any spread of two pages hangs together as one coherent whole. Anyone interested in graphic design and comics should check this one out.
Overall Promethea was a good comic book. The graphics were spectacular. Even though the plot is a bit artsy and pretentious, by about half way through I was hooked. There is enough action and "good parts" to keep things flowing well.
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Summary: A Journey, Tract, a Treat for your eyes.
Review: There is no comic book being published today that even comes close to the beautiful, intelligent art in Promethea. J. H. Williams goes all out. The story is very challenging to the mind and spirit. Kabala stuff is not really my thing, but if Alan Moore cares about it enough to do it, I care enough to come along for the ride. This, along with Top 10, LOEG, and Greyshirt, is the best of the ABC line. And it is a good time to jump aboard. In the 5th and final book, now being published in comic-book format, Promethea brings about the end of the world. But remember it is Alan Moore's version of the end of the world--so it may not be what you expect. Remember, too, the kind of generous swan-songs Moore did when he closed out his runs on Swamp Thing and other books he cared out. We may be in for something amazing in the final volume. Even if you looked at Promethea when it first came out and found it confusing or preachy, I recommend taking a second look at it in collected form. It rewards close and repeated readings. And the examinations of occult theories turn out to be, for the most part, a metaphor for creativity and growth.
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