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Promethea: Book 2

By: Alan Moore
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Wildstorm
ISBN: 1563899574
ISBN-13: 9781563899577
Released: 07 Feb 2003
RRP: £8.37
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Alan Moore at his most original - By: M. I. Popovski, 07 Jul 2007
Issues ten & twelve in this collection are amazing. The conventional superhero narrative is discarded. Even panels are forgotten. You are left with pure ideas on a page (courtesy of Alan Moore) & brilliant images (thanx to the artist/s). Those two issues justify the purchace of this book.

Unfortunately, the other less revolutionary issues (or is it chapters?) are a bit of a let down. The superhero action in Promethea fails to exite as much as the psychedelic theorizing. Issue 11 in particular suffers from being between the two genius issues. It's a story about Promethea saving the world from crazy goo.
Moore comes up trumps - By: InDreams, 30 Aug 2001
Much of Alan Moore's cuurent work seems like Moore-leightweight: accomplished & entertaining enough, but there's always the feeling that he's restraining himself & creating a deliberatly commercial body of work. It's a pleasure then to follow the development of Promethea from its originial Amazonian archetype to its current direction in which it focuses more intently on the nature of magic & imagination. This creates some problems of its own - the scenes of physical conflict seem more & more like sops thrown to the genre in which they operate - but this is compensated by the more thoughtful & sometimes illuminating avenues that are explored along the way. Oh, & the art complements the story well - it's detailed & imaginative without ever becoming unnecessarily confusing. Well worth buying, in short.