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Title: Promethea (Book 1) by Alan Moore, Mick Gray, J. H. Williams III ISBN: 1563896672 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: July, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.9
Rating: 4
Summary: Moore Reinvents Wonder Woman
Comment: Take Wonder Woman. Strip her of all the baranacles. Then think about all the mythology flowing through her adventures. Then stop and let Alan Moore show you how it's done.
Moore marks his return to deconstructionist super-hero comics with this gorgeous, often brilliant series. While even the most diligent reader is likely to get a little lost as the star of comic learns about the legends of Promethea while taking on her mantle, the journey - at least at the beginning of this series - is truly worth it. Moore, helped by the team of Williams and Gray, forges a stunning futuristic but believable world, creates a diverse and likeable cast, and has a lot of fun.
These issues are Promethea went it was still brilliant, before Moore's penchant for injecting his own religious and philosophical views into this book made later issues hard reading. But for fans who missed the Alan Moore of V for Vendetta and Watchmen, this is must reading. For fans of Wonder Woman who long for more than just action tales, this is must reading. And for fans of great art with women as real as they are sexy, you can't go wrong either.
Rating: 5
Summary: Alan Moore's female archetype
Comment: Alan Moore is, and deserves to be, a highly regarded author of what we should still call comic books (other names seem largely a reflex action hide embarrassment - which makes me annoyed to see them referred to as "the graphic story medium" in this book). He has in more recent years created a line of comics under the imprint "America's Best Comics", of which Promethea is one of those titles. This volume reprints the first five issues of that comic.
'Promethea' is an attempt to render the female super hero in an archetypical form. This book has a strong mystical or spiritual theme, with the female lead cast in a pluralistic role: she is both Sophie Bangs, student, and Promethea, imagination personified. Our Promethea is not the first, there is a whole line of Prometheas stretching back to ancient Egypt, and we get to know some of the earlier ones in this book.
What's good: as Promethea, Sophie doesn't know all the answers although, it seems, Promethea does (sounds confusing? Sophie is Promethea, but Promethea isn't Sophie). Indeed, Sophie finds herself thrust in to a broad canvas full of elements that she doesn't know about or understand. The book allows for Sophie and Promethea to be intellectual, rather than just wiping the enemies off the face of the Earth (and the Immateria) with her caduceus - even where she does that, it is thought through.
What's not so good: I gave it 5 stars, so not much. My main complaint is that it finishes at an inopportune moment. Sophie is learning about the four weapons she has, and learns about two and then it stops. The comic book has continued, so the rest will be in volume 2, but it still a bit inconsiderate.
Lots of thumbs up, and also check out Alan Moore's male archetype in 'Tom Strong'.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Journey, Tract, a Treat for your eyes.
Comment: There is no comic book being published today that even comes close to the beautiful, intelligent art in Promethea. J. H. Williams goes all out. The story is very challenging to the mind and spirit. Kabala stuff is not really my thing, but if Alan Moore cares about it enough to do it, I care enough to come along for the ride. This, along with Top 10, LOEG, and Greyshirt, is the best of the ABC line. And it is a good time to jump aboard.
In the 5th and final book, now being published in comic-book format, Promethea brings about the end of the world. But remember it is Alan Moore's version of the end of the world--so it may not be what you expect. Remember, too, the kind of generous swan-songs Moore did when he closed out his runs on Swamp Thing and other books he cared out. We may be in for something amazing in the final volume.
Even if you looked at Promethea when it first came out and found it confusing or preachy, I recommend taking a second look at it in collected form. It rewards close and repeated readings. And the examinations of occult theories turn out to be, for the most part, a metaphor for creativity and growth.
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Title: Top Ten (Book 1) by Alan Moore ISBN: 1563896680 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: June, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Tom Strong: Book One by Alan Moore ISBN: 1563896648 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1 by Alan Moore ISBN: 1563898586 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Supreme: The Story of the Year by Alan Moore, Joe Bennett, Rick Veitch, Alan Ross ISBN: 0971024952 Publisher: Checker Book Publishing Group Pub. Date: 15 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Swamp Thing: Reunion by Alan Moore ISBN: 1563899752 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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