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4.0 out of 5 stars
Promethea Book 3: Trippy Occult Comics,
By miles@riverside (Indio, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Promethea Book Three (Paperback)
I liked this 3rd volume better than the first two. The first volume, largely a tale of superheroics, tends to put you in mind of Wonder Woman. But by this volume, the story has morphed into a Madame Blavatsky/Theosophical Society-type occultic quest story. Two of the Prometheas set out to find the older, fatter Promethea's dead husband in the afterworld. They ascend several of the 10 nodes in the Kabbalist Sefiroth, each of which corresponds to a plane of reality. They run into Greek and Hindu Gods, Aleister Crowley, Death, various demons, and so forth. So there's a bunch of discussion about magic and metaphysics along the way, that sort of thing. The visuals contain several nice special effects, including a moebius-strip path (with inverted and sideways word balloons) and a set of rotating panels that can be read clockwise or counterclockwise. I guess it's nothing exactly BRILLIANT, but the book demonstrates some neat things you can do with comicbook graphics that you can't do with film or prose. I think PROMETHEA has the best artwork in any of the ABC Alan Moore series. Some readers might be disappointed by the relative lack of conflict in the story (compared to, say, the first volume). This is more of an exploration/discovery thing, and a pretty druggy one at that. A little irritating in a few places, but I thought it was kind of cool.
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Promethea 3:,
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This review is from: Promethea Book Three (Paperback)
This book takes off in two directions. The second one (I'll come back to the first) introduces a new Promethea. That plays by the rules - there have been lots of them and will be lots more. This plane of reality just has one at a time, though. The new one embodies "punk", in attitude and style. Promethea is a semi-mythic ideal of womanhood - certainly too rich and complex a topic to embody in any one person. Various Prometheas carry various parts of that vision: motherly, raw and angry, innocent, and sensual, but always powerful and involved. Some parts of the complete image are unpleasant but needed for the image to be complete, and that's where Promethea/Stacy fits. She exorcises demons by being more demonic than them. The book's other direction explains why the first Promethea was off duty. She is on a trip through the mythic planes, led by a succession of spirit guides. She acts as a passive display of each realm she traverse, and that seems a real under-use of a very worthwhile character. It's a verbal and philosophical trip, but Promethea is a character of action. Worlds of fantasy, sensuality, and judgement could have been settings for active exploraiton of each idea, but Promethea just talked about them while passing through. I consider that an opportunity lost. Still, the series is readable, well-drawn, and full of ideas well beyond the usual comic. Despite some flaws, I intend to keep reading.
1.0 out of 5 stars
A walk through pedantry,
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This review is from: Promethea Book Three (Paperback)
Moore has put everything he read on the tarot, the Kaballah, eastern mysticism, paganism and religion in his graphic novel. The result is a lifeless walk through a hodgepodge of references, humourless, boring to the extreme and not really interesting for the fans of the above mentioned fields. The text displays a false depth with no relation to the extremely slim narrative plot. When you think he has also authored the truly excellent "League"... you wonder what demon got into him.
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