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Promethea, Vol. 3 (Promethea #3)
Sophie Bangs' life has been spiraling out of control since the day that she was mystically transformed into the latest incarnation of Promethea, a centuries-old female warrior. In the third volume of this award-winning series, things only get worse for the college co-ed as she and Barbara, the last woman to hold the title of Promethea, embark on a spiritual and cosmic jour...more
Paperback, 160 pages
Published
August 1st 2003
by Wildstorm
(first published 2001)
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Moore's interest in the occult takes over the book, and its quality suffers a great deal as a result. The "plot" still exists in some form, as Sophie travels up the kabalistic tree of creation, but it is second to Moore's attempt to synthesize Egyptian, Judaic, Roman, Greek, Norse, Christian, etc. mythologies into a complete system for understanding the world. It really starts to fall into the morass of new age mysticism and hippie simple-mindedness, complete with faux-insightful comme...more
Promethea goes even worse, even more boring and even more 'newage'. Actually, as someone not lacking knowledge of stuff Moore bound into his comic, I feel I could comment.
First of all, if Cabalistic Tree of Life can be thought as a way to look over creation, it has COMPLETELY NOTHING TO DO WITH EGYPTIAN, ROMAN AND NORSE GODS. Alan, you look like someone who looks at a fruit-fly through a microscope and hopes to see Moon's craters. And those reminders of overall higher God/Godhead, and the s...more
First of all, if Cabalistic Tree of Life can be thought as a way to look over creation, it has COMPLETELY NOTHING TO DO WITH EGYPTIAN, ROMAN AND NORSE GODS. Alan, you look like someone who looks at a fruit-fly through a microscope and hopes to see Moon's craters. And those reminders of overall higher God/Godhead, and the s...more
Sophie's adventures as Promethea continue as she goes deeper into the Immateria. Meanwhile, there is a replacement back on Earth, but she is a bit more aggressive. Only reason I did not give this five stars is that this particular volume is a bit heavy on the Kabbalah and mystical references. I find them interesting, but Moore does lay them a bit thick at times. I think some readers may not be as interested as I am. Like previous volumes, this is one I will probably have to reread just to get al...more
Promethea three keeps up the quality of the two preceding instalments, while entering into whole new realms. First of all, the art work continues to be superb, becoming even more complex than before. Thus we have a double page spread where the narrative takes place around a Moebius band, and can be read starting from any point on the band, and others which are circular and work in either direction. Moreover, reflecting the shifts in the narrative from one realm to another, the style of the ar...more
I actually liked this a lot more than when I first read it. A lot of readers dropped Promethea at this point because of the endless tarot/kabbalah/etc. references , but it's not supposed to be a superhero comic. It's supposed to be a spiritual and literary allegory, and it's extremely well-constructed.
In Bk. 3, Sophie Bangs leaves her friend, Stacia, in the 'real world' to find her mentor, Barbara Shelley in the Immateria. Shelley is searching for her husband there. She thought she'd found him on the Terraces of Cruelty. But she tells Sophie, "Oh, he's just how I remember. That's the problem...The real Steve, he was so unpredictable but it's like a recording, an echo...a shade. Having just seen Inception and heard the last speech that the main character, Dom, tells his wife, Mal, makes ...more
Sophie leaves Earth to journey through the Tree of Life with Barbara, and leaves her friend Stacia behind as Earth's new Promethea. Stacia takes a bit more of an extreme view of her duties than Sophie did (something that no doubt seemed more topical when this was coming out than it does now).
I'm not at all well-versed in Kabbalah, so I got lost along the way a few times, but there were lots of pretty pictures to keep me distracted until I got back on track, and Moore continues to do...more
I'm not at all well-versed in Kabbalah, so I got lost along the way a few times, but there were lots of pretty pictures to keep me distracted until I got back on track, and Moore continues to do...more
Just for working "Munchausen by proxy" into a punchline...
Also, it's gorgeous. Even if you're not into the kabbalah and demons and boobs and the planes of existence and imagination and boobs and whatnot, the art is stunning, particularly the covers, where you see echoes of the Beatles, Maxfield Parrish, 60s acid-rock posters, etc.
As an aside, the whole series reminds me of Tim Minchin's song "Confessions." Find it on Youtube, it's great. (Yes, another...more
Also, it's gorgeous. Even if you're not into the kabbalah and demons and boobs and the planes of existence and imagination and boobs and whatnot, the art is stunning, particularly the covers, where you see echoes of the Beatles, Maxfield Parrish, 60s acid-rock posters, etc.
As an aside, the whole series reminds me of Tim Minchin's song "Confessions." Find it on Youtube, it's great. (Yes, another...more
Reprints Promethea #13-18. Promethea leaves the Earthly sphere and journeys into the afterlife to find Barbara while Stacia and Grace become the Promethea of Earth. This is where Promethea starts to get really weird. The book for the most part becomes a book of philosophy as Promethea and Barbara begin travelling through the spheres of existence. The art is still great and the story telling is good, but don't expect a lot of action.
Y'know, sometimes you feel dumb coz you're like "Man I like Alan Moore or whatever but the art in From Hell suuuucks, wtf" but then your friend is like "No you are not dumb, that art suuuuucks" and THEN you get to book three in Promethea and the art is so fucking good that you forgive Alan Moore whatever transgressions he may have committed in the past re: ill-advised illustrators selection. OH MAN YOU GUYS PROMETHEA IS SO GOOD.
Jennifer
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This series is making my brain hurt. I've never read a comic so literate and so based in philosophy, religion, mysticism, oh goodness he just throws in the whole kitchen sink.
You tell me how to read a comic that literally includes an infinity loop as a two page spread. Now really.
I am still adoring this series, but I may need to read it a few more times to catch a bit more. Simple enough for a child to get the plot- but layers upon layers of meaning to be uncovered. What ...more
You tell me how to read a comic that literally includes an infinity loop as a two page spread. Now really.
I am still adoring this series, but I may need to read it a few more times to catch a bit more. Simple enough for a child to get the plot- but layers upon layers of meaning to be uncovered. What ...more
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.
Dear god I forgot from the first time I read this, but this is the book where the series goes from WEIRD to BEAUTIFUL to PERFECT. I fucking love this series. I'm not sure if it's always true, but this may be my most favorite comic series of all time. And if on occasion I change my mind about that, I'm telling you right now that I am wrong.
Its terribly ambitious in trying to squeeze several centuries of esoteric knowledge into such a small comic book, i almost feel its too much. But the artwork is a delight, and the side jokes keep me coming back for more, like the "Weeping Gorilla Comix" and those 'Science Heroes' the '5 Swell Guys'.
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The mystical allegories take precedence over the story on this volume, which is I suppose the whole point of it. Interesting interpretations of many belief systems, though somewhat confusing (and annoying) at times. Still, I'm curious to see where the series goes next.
Wonderful artwork and fascinating text. Yes, its Tarot and Kaballah, and that kind of thing can be very cliche in laymen lit., but Moore makes it very interesting. Helps to know a little about Crowley and the new Tarot.
A cool new series to me, I am totally the target audience for this one- female heroine, metaphysics, magic, Cabala. It's a little stiff and didactic, but I will totally read the rest.
My husband was given this book by the inker when he DJed at a comic book marathon.
My husband was given this book by the inker when he DJed at a comic book marathon.
It seems as if this series is all about setting. The worlds and underworlds of this book are fantastic, but I lack a connection to any of the characters. I'm going to choose to stop reading the series at this point.
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I wanted to own this volume of Promethea first, due to the brilliant sequence of explaining the history of the world through tarot. Wow! Moore's layered writing at his finest.
An inane, pedantic tour of obnoxious mysticism lost in its tone of vapid, glib smugness. Almost the whole of it consists of the characters providing superficial, obvious, insipid explanations of what's occurring; if a book is going to spend its entire length explaining some mystical or philosophical system (rather than exploring it in some interesting narrative or formal way—no, the gimmicky layouts don't count), I want it to give me the depths and breadths of that system, rather than leading me...more
Have to admit the dialogue on this one is strange for Alan Moore. He is taking his time to carefully explain everything he wants the reader to understand by spelling it out. Almost no subtlety. So far this book series seems like his treatise on his own religious views.
This book kind of lost me, but there were some sections I liked. As for Sophie's friend being the new Promethea - AWESOME.
The first half of this volume is stellar, but the second half gets a little long-winded, with Moore's love for Kabbalah.
Loved the art in this and story was OK BUT my poor library (poor as in funding) only had #3. The story did have a Sandman feel to but not as good.
He's waxing pseudo-philosophical and something. that is it...
This is just getting silly but the art is still awesome.
Dee
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An excellent primer for any student of Magick.
Federiken Masters
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Igual de interesante, original, perturbador, bien dibujado, bien escrito y rompemoldes que los anteriores, pero los pasa principalmente por dos detalles no menores:
Uno, que nunca antes había tenido que hacer trampa para pasar de hoja hasta la página doble en la que Promethea y Barbara se quedan charlando en un bucle infinito.
Dos, nunca antes un Dios me había mirado directo a los ojos. La experiencia fue tan fascinante como terrorífica.
Ahora, a rezar porque los dos tomos que que...more
Uno, que nunca antes había tenido que hacer trampa para pasar de hoja hasta la página doble en la que Promethea y Barbara se quedan charlando en un bucle infinito.
Dos, nunca antes un Dios me había mirado directo a los ojos. La experiencia fue tan fascinante como terrorífica.
Ahora, a rezar porque los dos tomos que que...more
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