Promethea (edit title)

Shelfari edited the contributors of Promethea Tuesday, November 10 2009.

• reordered the contributors.
• 1 : Alan Moore:
• 2 : J. H. Williams:

Timothy Gray approved Haley M’s request to change the title of Promethea Sunday, November 1 2009.

Timothy Gray approved Timothy Gray’s request to change the contributors of Promethea Wednesday, October 21 2009.

• Added a contributor: Alan Moore: (Primary Author)

Timothy Gray approved Haley M’s request to change the contributors of Promethea Wednesday, October 21 2009.

• Added a contributor: Alan Moore: (Primary Author)

Timothy Gray edited the contributors of Promethea Wednesday, October 21 2009.

• Added a contributor: J. H. Williams: (Illustrator)

Haley M edited the series of Promethea Tuesday, October 20 2009.

• Added this book in the series: Promethea book 5 (Primary series)

Haley M edited the contributors of Promethea Tuesday, October 20 2009.

• Added a contributor: Alan Moore: (Primary Author)

Haley M changed the title of Promethea Tuesday, October 20 2009.

Shelfari edited the description of Promethea Sunday, August 2 2009.

• The author of such landmark graphic novels as Watchmen and From Hell wraps up his most audacious recent project unorthodoxly even by his own radical standards. Promethea is about a teenager who becomes the latest incarnation of a centuries-old mystical heroine and is essentially Moore's attempt to convey his magic-based cosmology under the guise of a superhero comic. In the comic-book series' conclusion, Promethea sets out to end the world, Tom Strong and his superhero comrades from Moore's other comic books attempt to stop her, and everybody else prepares for apocalypse. The very last chapter consists entirely of full-page portraits of Promethea floating over a psychedelic background and expounding on themes suggested by the paths of the tarot and spheres of the kabbalah--a characteristically unconventional Moore ending. The ambitious project has often daunted readers with lengthy segments devoted to verbose philosophizing, and that it comes off as well as it does is due largely to artist J. H. Williams III, who has smoothly veered from superhero action to photographic realism to fine-art pastiche. Gordon Flagg Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved