Felicity's review
Promethea (Book 1)
by Alan Moore
Felicity's review
Promethea (Book 1) by Alan Moore
Felicity's review
rating:
bookshelves:
fiction,
graphic-novel,
reread,
spec-fic
recommended for: myth-lovers, Mage players, English majors in need of an ego boost
Promethea is a stirringly wondrous story about the power of myth and the imagination, set in a drolly imagined futuristic 'present', and fashioned with great care and love. It's beautiful, funny, intelligent, and resonant. On top of that, the art actually lives up to the idea. Even the color adds to the wonder, mystery, and eldritch loveliness.
To avoid spoiling too much, the plot's about stories; the ones we create and the ones that have dwelt for long centuries in the cauldron of our mythologies; their power over us and our power over them. It's an empowering story for bookworms.
So far, if I had to name a fault in Promethea, it would be that the stories and metaphysics are rather occidentocentric, and not just in areas where it would reflect the characters' bias. It puts a strange regional cap on concepts and themes that otherwise seem to stretch on into the infinite and universal.
To avoid spoiling too much, the plot's about stories; the ones we create and the ones that have dwelt for long centuries in the cauldron of our mythologies; their power over us and our power over them. It's an empowering story for bookworms.
So far, if I had to name a fault in Promethea, it would be that the stories and metaphysics are rather occidentocentric, and not just in areas where it would reflect the characters' bias. It puts a strange regional cap on concepts and themes that otherwise seem to stretch on into the infinite and universal.
