Promethea: Book Two of the Groundbreaking New Series
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781563897849 (1563897849)
Publish date: August 1st 2001
Publisher: America's Best Comics
Pages no: 176
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Magic,
Sequential Art,
Graphic Novels,
Comics,
Graphic Novels Comics,
Comic Book,
Occult,
Mythology,
Superheroes,
Comics Manga
Series: Promethea (#2)
4.5 with potential to rate the series 5 as a whole.
and this is where me and Promethea depart.
After the first one, this one seemed a bit of a letdown. I still liked it. The art on this series is simply gorgeous overall (though given the art in the rest of the volume, I really expected those Tarot cards to be a lot more ornate). The main problem for me is that the reading experience was simpl...
The Aleister Crowley imaginary mongoose joke is not only a perfect explanation of magic, it also explains religion and parapsychology and any other unfounded belief system that gives its believers imaginary power to overcome imaginary problems.
Sophie continues to explore what it means to be Promethea whilst her foes gather. There's even more time spent in the present New York, which is wildly futuristic by our standards--and also giddily fun. My one problem with this collection is the excessively long-winded description of magic and tar...
12 years ago
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