Comics narrate the story of university student Sophie Bangs as she fights mystical places and spirits to unveil the truth behind mythical warrior woman, Promethea.
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Alan Moore is one of the most respected and admired writers in comics today, with a host of industry awards and accolades. His credits include The Ballad of Halo Jones, Watchmen, V For Vendetta and Swamp Thing. He is currently working on his own line of comics, including Tom Strong and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
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
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. J. H. Williams III (illustrator). Nice clean hardcover of Book Five of Alan Moore's Promethea series. No interior marks, light wear to dust jacket. Seller Inventory # ABE-1698180483718
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Condition: New. J. H. Williams III (illustrator). First edition, first printing, 200 pp., hardcover, new in a fine dust jacket. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country. Seller Inventory # ZB1304632
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. J. H. Williams III (illustrator). First Edition; First Printing. Color graphics; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 200 pages; 2005 Wildstorm - America's Best Comics. Larger format HC/DJ. 1st edition, 1st printing stated. Tightly bound and fresh in crisp edged and uniformly bright color pictorial dust jacket. Just a whisper of shelf evidence to jacket extremities. Feels and appears generally unread and about as new. NF/NF. Seller Inventory # 49755
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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. WILLIAMS III, J.H. : GRAY MICK (illustrator). First Edition. HB - 1st. Print - NEW/NEW (Sealed in publisher's shrinkwrap) - The final book of Alan Moore's incredible journey into the heart of the Immateria - "University student Sophie Bangs has hidden the immense power of Promethea deep inside her. Now she must release that power, and bring Armageddon to friends, foes and the world". Seller Inventory # 005739
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