Promethea #1 - "The Radiant, Heavenly City"

[laughing_tree]

When I actually started writing Promethea from the initial proposal, I think I'd written between four and eight pages and then just had to tear them up, because it didn't have any of the life or vitality I wanted, which I added to the strip partly by talking with Jim Williams and coming up with a wildly different vision of New York, and partly by throwing in seemingly irrelevant, absurdist elements, like the Weeping Gorilla posters, the Five Swell Guys... those things added to the mix seemed to make the thing, give it a freshness, an originality and a life. -- Alan Moore

Comments

[alschroeder3]

One of Moore's best and most imaginative ---in many senses of the word-- creations.

[alicemacher]

Agreed. It's Moore at his most idealistic and optimistic. And Williams's art is stunning in its richness and versatility of style.

[silverhammerman]

I've only ever dipped my toe into Promethea, it's a bit wordy and rather esoteric, so I've tended to dismiss it as being too niche/meta (maybe that's the wrong way to put it. Excessively Alan Moore-y, if you get my meaning.) but I've heard good things about it, so I'm interested to see the bits and pieces you post from it.

[laughing_tree]

Parts of it are certainly as you describe, yeah. Which bits have you read?

[silverhammerman]

I think I made it up to somewhere in the vicinity of issues 4-6, and probably the Tom Strong tie-in to the ending, but it's been quite a while.

[bmaryott]

This is one of those that I think could make a spectacular series on Amazon/Netflix.

[thatnickguy]

I LOVED Promethea....at first. I loved the mythology, I loved the jaw-dropping art. Just a great comic.

And then Moore took a total detour for over a third of its run to soapbox about the various levels of magic or something. I've tried multiple times to enjoy those issues, but cripes, they're just so dull, even with Williams' never disappointing art.