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April 25th 2003
by Titan Books Ltd
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Paperback, 176 pages
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1840233702
(isbn13: 9781840233704)
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The second volume of the critically acclaimed, multiple award-winning series PROMETHEA is every bit as good as, if not better than, the first volume â...more
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Read in March, 2006
recommended to Felicity by:
Joss Whedon (via Buffy commentary track)recommends it for: myth-lovers, Mage players, English majors in need of an ego boost
Promethea is a delight. While of course the second volume cannot match the newness and discovery of the first, it continues to be excellent, and provides many thrills of the unexpected-solution and character-payoff varieties. Containing several episodes in the life of Promethea, as well as issues of her comic book, this one runs the gamut from your basic city-in-peril to a history of the universe in tarot arcana.
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This series is pretty much a collection of Alan Moore's belief about the power of imagination, story, magic, and well, tarot. If you're not really into the subject, please grab another book. Me myself got kinda bored (read: didn't have no clues) in the book 3-4, when he explained about every single path in tarot. But the ending and the idea is just marvelous.
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Currently reading this comic. I read the first book and anything I say applies to that one, too.
Neat book. I liked it enough to buy a copy. Kind of a mix of typical Alan Moore / Frank Miller dystopian future shtick mixed with postmodern fantasy and heavily surrealist art.
Interesting plot. Dense, engaging art (might be a bit much for some) The art is hard to follow in parts.
Some quips: The cast is almost entirely female and of varying ages but all seem to talk like 15 year old boys. ...more
Neat book. I liked it enough to buy a copy. Kind of a mix of typical Alan Moore / Frank Miller dystopian future shtick mixed with postmodern fantasy and heavily surrealist art.
Interesting plot. Dense, engaging art (might be a bit much for some) The art is hard to follow in parts.
Some quips: The cast is almost entirely female and of varying ages but all seem to talk like 15 year old boys. ...more
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Read in August, 2007
recommends it for:
fans of Fray or the Invisibles,
Sophie is a geeky New York teen in 1999 doing a paper on a mythic figure, Promethea. Always female, Promethea has had many personalities and roles, but she is found in fiction written in almost every generation. Just Sophie is giving up, she's attacked by monsters...and saved by Promethea. But the current Promethea is fading fast, and in order to survive Sophie must take on the mantle of this magical female.
Promethea is imagination manifest, and through her Sophie discovers powers and dan...more
Promethea is imagination manifest, and through her Sophie discovers powers and dan...more
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Read in August, 2007
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 tarot near the end. It lasts for an entire comic, and I skipped it all without a feeling of guilt.
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Read in April, 2008
Dear Alan Moore -- I know this is your way of explaining your religion or whatever? But the last "story" in this book did not give me any joy. It was exhausting. See also: reading a comic sideways. The gimmicky comic/photo transition was sort of cool, but I'm glad it didn't last long. Please tighten up the next Promethea book and make it solid story, would ya?
xo,
Heather
xo,
Heather
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Read in September, 2008
recommends it for:
active imaginations, dreamers
I can't find Book 3 anywhere! Wahhhhhhhhhhh! I've tried both Midtown Comics locations, and Silver Age Comics as well... I need Book 3 or I'm gonna go nuts!
Book 2 was AWESOME of course! It's pretty cool when Promethea has sex with Faust... I'm gonna have to try that position! ;)
Book 2 was AWESOME of course! It's pretty cool when Promethea has sex with Faust... I'm gonna have to try that position! ;)
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Read in December, 2007
While the meta-metaphysics of Moore's story is exciting in and of itself, this is where the plot and action of Promethea takes off from its myriad allusions and becomes an engaging superhero comic on top of being a compelling synthesis of imagination, myth, religion, history, and archetype.
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Read in March, 2007
This wasn't quite as entertaining as the first collection, at least for me. The first half was good, but the second half, which got very woo-woo theoretical with the magick and the tarot got a little boring. I'm hoping the third collection will be a little bit more engaging.
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Read in April, 2007
recommends it for:
Alan Moore completists
Alan Moore on autopilot is still fun. A few ideas seem like Grant Morrison light. Which is weird. I do wonder whether the cosmology in the series is his actual belief system. Is he using this fiction to summon gods? He is an actual practicing warlock so...
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recommends it for:
comic book/graphic novel fans
The second book in the series starts getting a little uncomfortable in the realm of things that could actually happen: Sophie as Promethea joins in sexual union with the really old soothsayer. Ugh.
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Read in March, 2008
I like the direction this is taking, heading into more mystical stuff from the quasi-awkward meta-literary action that it started out as. I've never read anything like it. Issue 12 was amazing.
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this is my first time reading this sort of comic book/graphic novel series. i finished it on a plane ride to oahu. then had the most fantastic psychedelic dream afterwards.
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Read in November, 2007
Ohh, great stuff. Which I could read these in order...hey, maybe i will, go out and buy the set instead of hunting through my local library...
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Read in November, 2008
recommended to Jennifer by:
Dan Renfroerecommends it for: comics fans- read volume 1 first!
The final issue in this volume is possibly the most amazingly detailed and inventive comics I've read.
Wow. Dan, you're so the man.
Wow. Dan, you're so the man.
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Read in June, 2006
alan moore is sexy. he's a sexy wizard. that's not really helpful in this book review, but there it is. i said it.
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this is as great as #s 1, 3, and 4 except for a nasty sex scene that takes the cup and wand metaphor way too far.
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Read in January, 2004
So brimming with estrogen, it should have an Annie Lennox soundtrack. Great art, though.
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The line between silly and beautiful is alot thinner then we'd like to believe.
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