Promethea, Vol. 1
Alan Moore, like Neil Gaiman, constantly flirts with thetoo-smart-for-his-own-good aesthetic without alienating his readers.Promethea weaves Moore's trademark scholarly mysticism with wild, fun swipes at post-everything culture in a complex tale based on the importance of story. Following a...
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Alan Moore, like Neil Gaiman, constantly flirts with thetoo-smart-for-his-own-good aesthetic without alienating his readers.Promethea weaves Moore's trademark scholarly mysticism with wild, fun swipes at post-everything culture in a complex tale based on the importance of story. Following a teenage girl, whose interest in an obscure and possibly real heroine leads to her assumption of the heroine's role, Promethea draws on a century of comics art to express themes of history and fiction.Action, intimacy, fantasy, and ennui all find their place, and when it's over, the reader will hunger for the next collection. --Rob Lightner
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781563896675 (1563896672)
ASIN: 1563896672
Publish date: July 1st 2000
Publisher: America's Best Comics
Pages no: 178
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Magic,
Sequential Art,
Graphic Novels,
Comics,
Graphic Novels Comics,
Comix,
Comic Book,
Mythology,
Superheroes,
Comics Manga
Series: Promethea (#1)
Looking forward to read the next one (once I buy it) I loved the style of it all and it shows great promise.
Sophie Bangs is a college student in a present-day New York in an universe where the world is completely dominated by science. There are flying cars and high tech buildings, cutting edge medical treatments, and fiction and myth are things of the past, relegated to academical studies. Sophie is inter...
There are some elements of Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel in Promethea, but overall I think she may be Moore's most original creation.
This is definitely one of the more interesting and entertaining reads I have done this year. The tale of Promethea is just starting in this volume, and I can't wait to find the second one. College student Sophia, in an alternate New York discovers she is to be the new Promethea. Moore's storytelling...