After chores and some #audiobaking (banana bread, and it made the apartment smell sooooo good!), I‘m ready to settle down for some quality comic reading time. Good end to a Monday. 😁
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Promethea Book One | 
After chores and some #audiobaking (banana bread, and it made the apartment smell sooooo good!), I‘m ready to settle down for some quality comic reading time. Good end to a Monday. 😁
pickInteresting comic all about the power of imagination—really, imagination as a living, tangible being that can move between our world—a futuristic NYC—& world of imagination. Sophie Bangs is a college student writing a research paper on this mythical warrior named Promethea & then one night she becomes the latest iteration of Promethea. She has to learn what it all means while staying one step ahead of the bad guys. Interesting enough to read more.
This #LesserKnownComic is a #SlowBurn It starts out as a traditional superhero narrative. Sophie Bangs can take the form of Promethea, Goddess of the Imagination, like many authors, poets, and artists before her.
At the end of Volume 1 however this series jumps the rails and never looks back, becoming Moore's masterwork on creativity, magic, tarot, religion, and the Apocalypse.
This comic is why I know a crap-ton about Kabbalah. Read it!
I posted about an awesome #WonderWoman comic earlier, but my favorite #femalesuperhero would have to be Promethea.
This series is diverse, weird, profane, beautiful, and brilliant. Promethea is a manifestation of the power of imagination and she possesses the artists and writers who summon her.
The earlier issues are more traditional superhero fare, but around 12 it jumps the rails an never looks back becoming something special and strange.
For #Recommendsday I'd like to tell you why you really should check out Promethea. This comic, collected in 5 volumes, starts out as a cool diverse twist on the superhero genre, then jumps the tracks and never looks back, becoming an action/adventure dissection of imagination, religion, myth, magic, Kabbalah, and tarot. It stretches and breaks the boundaries of what comics are capable of with the most incredible art I've ever seen. Try it.
so-soI stand by my assertion re: Moore's ideas, but that said, this did eventually make me want to read the next volume. It's doing better things with the same ideas as The Unwritten.
Review of this in the AM...but I think I like Alan Moore's use of language and *ideas* more than I like his plots/stories, whereas someone like Ellis, Morrison, DeConnuck, or Aguirre-Sassca engage me on a story/character level...but dang if Moore can't write a banger of a sentence.
"You don't want to go looking for folklore. And you especially don't want folklore to come looking for you."
