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Promethea, Book 1 Paperback – July 1, 2001

by Alan Moore (Author), J. H. Williams III (Illustrator), Mick Gray (Illustrator),
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Sophie Bangs was a just an ordinary college student in a weirdly futuristic New York when a simple assignment changed her life forever. While researching Promethea, a mythical warrior woman, Sophie receives a cryptic warning to cease her investigations. Ignoring the cautionary notice, she continues her studies and is almost killed by a shadowy creature when she learns the secret of Promethea. Surviving the encounter, Sophie soon finds herself transformed into Promethea, the living embodiment of the imagination. Her trials have only begun as she must master the secrets of her predecessors before she is destroyed by Promethea's ancient enemy.
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  1. Part of Series
    Promethea
  2. Print length
    160 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publisher
    WildStorm
  5. Publication date
    July 1, 2001
  6. Dimensions
    6.62 x 0.28 x 10.1 inches
  7. ISBN-10
    9781563896675
  8. ISBN-13
    978-1563896675
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Alan Moore, like Neil Gaiman, constantly flirts with the too-smart-for-his-own-good aesthetic without alienating his readers. Promethea weaves Moore's trademark scholarly mysticism with wild, fun swipes at post-everything culture in a complex tale based on the importance of story. Following a teenage girl, whose interest in an obscure and possibly real heroine leads to her assumption of the heroine's role, Promethea draws on a century of comics art to express themes of history and fiction. Action, intimacy, fantasy, and ennui all find their place, and when it's over, the reader will hunger for the next collection. --Rob Lightner

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1563896672
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ WildStorm; First Edition (July 1, 2001)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 160 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781563896675
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1563896675
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.9 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.62 x 0.28 x 10.1 inches
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Alan Moore

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Alan Moore is an English writer most famous for his influential work in comics, including the acclaimed graphic novels Watchmen, V for Vendetta and From Hell. He has also written a novel, Voice of the Fire, and performs "workings" (one-off performance art/spoken word pieces) with The Moon and Serpent Grand Egyptian Theatre of Marvels, some of which have been released on CD.

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Chris
5.0 out of 5 stars Imagination, Cups, and Swords.
Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2018
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I decided to start reading the Promethea series after reading about Alan Moore's different projects over his career. The Promethea series serves the dual purpose of being an entertaining story while also teaching occult principles.
In this first volume the topics discussed are imagination and visualization, especially upon mythical characters (such as Promethea) to manifest them from their realm (the Immateria) into the physical realm, as well as the idea of writing these ideas down to further focus them. Two suits of the Tarot are also introduced via different incarnations of the Promethea character throughout history: the Cups (love and compassion), and Swords (reason).
Very well written, with beautiful art.
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Kevin Killian
5.0 out of 5 stars Trust the Snakes
Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2008
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I'm up to Promethea Part IV by now so I should back up and rein in my thoughts on Volume 1 (which collects the first 6 comics from back in 1999 it looks like). Anyway hats off to Alan Moore for serving up another variation on his "superwoman" ideal, as if Mina Harker from LXG wasn't enough. Well she isn't enough of course. PROMETHEA wouldn't be as interesting as it is (and in fact it's captivated me for the past three days) without its back story, New York in the last days of the last century, but a different New York with far more elaborate architecture and a set of new technologies that makes it seem like something HG Wells prophesized. On top of this strange, baroque background, seeing Stacia and Sophie act like regular co-eds at a place like NYU is what gives it its special, endearing brand of gotcha.

It's a daring, risky book where many lesser talents would have come undone, and as a matter of fact Moore's storytelling here is not exactly his finest, and his allegorical sense isn't altogether on point. OK, so Sophie encounters Little Red Riding Hood and the wolf in her past-our-bourne travels into the underworld... Little Red is snarky and snippy, and the wolf is super terrifying, but isn't this a story Angela Carter did already like, a zillion times, not to mention the Stephen Sondheim of INTO THE WOODS? I feel like I'm missing the point from time to time... Also the "5 Swell Guys," five science heroes who swank around the skies of New York at night in their bubble car. Moore fans help me, did they appear in some other comic and so all of you know about them already? Lord love a duck, I haven't been able to distinguish them any better than my fingerprints, except for "Kenneth," the psychic one, who must be named after "Kenneth what's my frequency?"

Will evil and all seeing Marto Neptura be back later on in the saga? He's the one who scares me the most, him and his army of alligator men, they will haunt my nightmares forever! Or is he a false bogey, already vanquished, the way the great Wizard of Oz dwindles to insignificance once one goes beyond the screen? For myself, I used the anagram trick to take my mind away from the paralyzing fear. "Marto Neptura?" asked Alice. "Why, he's only "Our Apartment" spelled backwards, that's all!"
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Batmensch
5.0 out of 5 stars Probably the best of the series
Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2013
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IMHO, the later Promethea series books got a little long-winded, as Moore did an extended tour of magic and imagination in books 3-4, which wore on me after a while, although they were still very interesting, and then there was a little too much crossover in book 5 with the rest of the America's Best Universe, which to me didn't work all that well. I stil loved them, but the first two books were the best, I think, where Moore and J.H.Williams were only really dealing with Promethea and her adventures. Beautiful, beautiful books.
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Neodoering
4.0 out of 5 stars Nothing New Under the Sun
Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2012
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I was expecting great things from Promethea, considering it comes from Alan Moore, and overall I'm disappointed with this graphic novel. The visuals are stunning, truly beautiful inking and coloring going on here, but the storyline is conventional fantasy with nothing new to contribute. I expected more from Moore. The plot line involves a young college student who is researching a legendary hero called Promethea, who appears in artistic works over the ages as a heroine. On her way to doing this research the college student, one Sophie Bangs, becomes the latest incarnation of Promethea and fights off various sorcerors, demons, elementals and so forth that have been sent to kill her by various entities that have crossed paths with Promethea in the past and have grudges to bear.

I thought this book was pretty much predictable, once you settled into it, but the first-rate art earned it an extra star. The book is pleasant to look at and read, and that helped make up for the dull storyline. I can truly only recommend this book if you're deep into comics and nothing better is available to you or if you're a dedicated Moore fan and want to check out ALL his works. Otherwise you can safely give this one a miss, and only be out some good artwork.
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KT
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2022
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Got this book for a class and thoroughly enjoyed it.
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Marcelo
5.0 out of 5 stars Mais um clássico pelas mãos do Moore
Reviewed in Brazil on August 2, 2018
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Leitura bastante complexa e carregada de simbolismos e referências ao ocultismo. É um exemplar de historia comparável apenas ao próprio Sandman, por ser uma epopeia mistico-filosófica onde o personagem central se desenvolve através do caminho do herói (ainda que deturpado). Este é o primeiro volume, de 5 lançados.
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Cole Kramer
5.0 out of 5 stars Imagination running wild
Reviewed in Canada on June 28, 2018
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I find Moore's writing incredibly thought provoking and akin to Gaiman's sense of wonder and intrigue.

I intended to read the remaining Promethea books on my Kindle, but I have decided now to purchase the hardcovers and add them to my collection as the artwork by J. H. Williams III and Mick Gray is incredible.

Definitely recommend to comic fans and fans of fantasy alike!
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jack zardoz
5.0 out of 5 stars superbe!
Reviewed in France on November 29, 2018
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Pour moi c'est vraiment le chef d'oeuvre de Moore (je le met au dessus de Vendetta). Récit complexe et onirique sans oublier des compositions de pages à couper le souffle, avec quasiment une idée par case. (Je n'ai pas un super niveau en anglais, mais je comprend quasiment tout (la version française est hors de prix!)
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sid065
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in India on November 9, 2017
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Alan moore is God.
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asocrates
5.0 out of 5 stars 1st book in "Promethea" - a classic series
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 23, 2017
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Amazing graphics and story line in this "Promethea" series. I wanted the 3 volume hard cover version of "Absolute Promethea". Volumes 2 and 3 were not difficult to find in the oversize version which is well worth the money. I couldn't find volume 1 though so I got it in trade paperback edition, not so good and split into 2 volumes called book one and two. Comparing the 2 versions the Absolute series comes in a stunning slip cover, the art and graphics are top quality and it's a joy to hold and read. If you can, do save up for the Absolute Editions. However if you just want to read a great story and don't mind the book quality get these trade paperbacks.
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