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Promethea: Book 1

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I wish more graphic novels used the artwork and the graphic medium as well as Moore does in his work. Too many graphic novels make it feel like the art's an afterthought as though it's a storyboard for a TV show, but Moore uses it to the full potential to come up with original, innovative designs that support the story. I really, really like that. Determined to deal with the Temple, Promethea raided Benny Solomon’s establishments.She eventually found a trace of their leader. Promethea is an amazing comic and you’re likely to feel a lot of conflicting emotions while reading it. The Weeping Gorilla comics that are entirely about a gorilla thinking profoundly sad thoughts are hilarious. Various references to the old Nemo in Slumberland and other classic comics show the tender side of Moore’s famously tempestuous relationship with corporate comics versus the beloved tales of his youth. Moments where the story breaks away to become a tale within a tale are also typical of Moore’s works. While this storytelling method is often disjointed or even jarring, here these smaller stories merge perfectly into the greater whole. Much of this comic is specifically set up to support the more fanciful and genuinely pleasant sides of Moore’s storytelling, setting its place among his masterpieces.

The art was consistently stunning throughout the series. Even in the last issue where it made it nearly impossible to read the text in places, it was still gorgeous and still worth it. This is a great example of how the words and art can boost each other so that the finished product has more impact than just the sum of its parts. This is not a normal comicbook. This is something magical. Alan Moore set out from the very beginning of the series to convince the reader that stories and imagination are literally magical and as far as I'm concerned he succeeded.Three years pass and Sophie, having abandoned her duties as Promethea, hides in Millennium City under the alias Joey Estrada with new boyfriend Carl. However, after being found by the FBI and Tom Strong, Sophie reluctantly becomes Promethea and in turn carries out one final task; bringing about the end of the world. Humans are amphibious, Sophie. That means they live in two worlds at once: matter and mind. Yet many people only notice the solid world they have been conditioned to think of as more real while all about them diamond glaciers creak and star-volcanoes thunder." Rejoice!” reads the narration in Promethea #12. “This is the promised time of Earth’s ascent to realms sublime. Imagination’s endless dance is mankind’s jeweled inheritance.”

Vive sabiendo que ya eres polvo, que moriste hace mucho, que ya te hallas fuera del tiempo observando, revisando tu vida, entendiendo, al fin, por qué creías haber vivido todos esos momentos antes; eres tu propio ángel de la guarda. Sabes que los demonios negros como el carbón y los serafines prístinos que revolotean por ahí son solo prolongaciones de ti mismo al desplegarte en un plano más alto donde moran miríadas de dioses, quienes no son leyendas olvidadas sino tus yos pasados y futuros, tus atributos destilados en sus formas simbólicas más puras y poderosas. Todos ellos, con su vitalidad animal, sus coronas y relámpagos y sus diferentes colores, se combinan en la blancura única de la divinidad que lo es todo. Igual de denso que los dos volúmenes anteriores, aunque al tener que ir cerrando todo, y a pesar de tener menos números (que no menos páginas - viene con bastantes extras interesantes, no los típicos bocetos y/o guión, aunque eso también) hay más historia en el sentido de que ocurren más cosas, no hay tanta exposición de ideas. Sobre todo en los números iniciales la trama avanza bastante, y aun con sus particularidades la historia es más convencional. Sin embargo cuando se acerca el gran evento en torno al cual gira todo el volumen (y, en buena parte, la historia) todo vuelve a su tono "normal" y lo remata con la "fiesta de despedida" final. Prometeja je junakinja beskraja koja čini ljude svesnije nematerijalne ravni. Kletva ili dar čovečanstvu jednog umirućeg oca. Svemir zasnovan na ljubavi. Tuga u raju jer raj nije Disneyland. Mašta, svest, magija, priča i istina. Fantastično tkanje života vremena❤In issue 17, Promethea and Barbara reach the golden sephira of Tiphereth (meaning Beauty), which is the sephira of the sun. It is the lowest level of the Sephirot that God can visit, and the highest that man can visit, and it is also the emanation connected to resurrection. Here Barbara meets her guardian angel, Boo-Boo Ramirez, a cussin’ tokin’ representation of Barbara at age 15. Boo-Boo explains that Tiphereth is the home of all the gods that are resurrected, Baldur from Norse mythology, Osiris from Egyptian mythology, and the connection of God and man... Jesus Christ. They see him on the cross and are all moved to tears. “Our highest point. The best in us. The gold. And it’s nailed writhing on the cross of the world.” But even at the crucifiction, Boo-Boo says, “At the lowest Auschwitz ass-end of what humans are, and what humans do... our highest point is still here with us. There’s light. Always remember that. There’s light at the bottom.” Heavy stuff for Alan Moore, the proudly professed Pagan. Each issue is beautifully illustrated in a different style that connects to the theme of the emanation of the sephirot that is its focus. The ten emanations, or sephira, are each connected to one of the planets, the moon, or the sun, and the twenty-two paths between them that Promethea and Barbara travel are connected to the twenty-two cards in the Minor Arcana of the Tarot, and the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet. Got it? The gist of this is that Promethea is a figment of imagination that comes to life through an avatar, and each avatar reinvents her own version of Promethea. Said avatars have access to, and eventually end up in, the Land of Imagination. <--not the real name

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