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thanekosThat was the work of Victor Fries, in response to one of Batman's early-in-his-career civilian assistants shattering his wife's body, heeding his wife-in-his-head.
Batman, setting out to stop the man's work, stopped by the " office " he'd set up for his team.
They'd left something behind for him.
( It reflected how he'd left them, and where they were. )
Batman, setting out to stop the man's work, stopped by the " office " he'd set up for his team.
They'd left something behind for him.
( It reflected how he'd left them, and where they were. )
thanekos#194'd seen his early-in-his-career hand-picked team of civilian assistants in an op that'd gone bad.
#195 saw them on a follow-up, tracking the mobster Peter Scotta's meeting with Derek Parke, sole survivor of a cryogenic attack on researchers at his company.
The meeting was interrupted by the attacker, and former lead of that research team - Victor Fries, turned endothermic by an accident with technology similar to the freezing gun he was carrying.
The gun chilled and killed Scotta and his men.
Parke, his plan to sell that cryogenic technology to Scotta as a weapon scuppered, fled.
One of Batman's team broke cover to help him away.
Batman dropped out of the sky, putting himself between Parke and Fries.
( He landed in Scotta's pond. )
#195 saw them on a follow-up, tracking the mobster Peter Scotta's meeting with Derek Parke, sole survivor of a cryogenic attack on researchers at his company.
The meeting was interrupted by the attacker, and former lead of that research team - Victor Fries, turned endothermic by an accident with technology similar to the freezing gun he was carrying.
The gun chilled and killed Scotta and his men.
Parke, his plan to sell that cryogenic technology to Scotta as a weapon scuppered, fled.
One of Batman's team broke cover to help him away.
Batman dropped out of the sky, putting himself between Parke and Fries.
( He landed in Scotta's pond. )
thanekosHe'd had his origin - an attempt to save his wife Nora from her illness had frozen her and left him cold.
He remade himself with the cryogenic technology whose unexpected weaponization'd done that - the same dialed-up-behind-his-back tech that Batman and his newly recruited civilian support team had gotten an unknowing hint of.
His colleagues got something more, when he called them to the site of his beginning.
" How could this have happened? " one of them asked, surveying the cold and broken aftermath.
" I hope nobody was here. " said another.
( The first discovered otherwise. )
He remade himself with the cryogenic technology whose unexpected weaponization'd done that - the same dialed-up-behind-his-back tech that Batman and his newly recruited civilian support team had gotten an unknowing hint of.
His colleagues got something more, when he called them to the site of his beginning.
" How could this have happened? " one of them asked, surveying the cold and broken aftermath.
" I hope nobody was here. " said another.
( The first discovered otherwise. )
thanekosThe team was Batman's, early in his career, to give him what he wasn't getting from Jim Gordon and Harvey Dent.
Its members - a Green Beret discharged on a frame-up, a forensic analyst not getting professional fulfillment at the FBI, an electronics shop owner whose brilliant amateur work wasn't being recognized, a criminal psychologist frustrated at having only pop appeal, and an ex-con finding it hard to get and live on work that wasn't criminal - were all talented, and all open to the purpose and validation Batman was offering.
He brought them together at a meeting he didn't attend in person.
( He spoke from a screen. )
Its members - a Green Beret discharged on a frame-up, a forensic analyst not getting professional fulfillment at the FBI, an electronics shop owner whose brilliant amateur work wasn't being recognized, a criminal psychologist frustrated at having only pop appeal, and an ex-con finding it hard to get and live on work that wasn't criminal - were all talented, and all open to the purpose and validation Batman was offering.
He brought them together at a meeting he didn't attend in person.
( He spoke from a screen. )
thanekosThe first fall was Batman's, in his past in his cave.
Alfred found him and patched him up.
In bed, Bruce told him about his hunt of the criminal Peter Scotta, in which he'd fallen at the last hurdle.
" Master Bruce, when was the last time you had a full night's sleep? "
" I believe I just did. "
" Unconsciousness from lack of blood doesn't count. "
" I don't.. it was.. sometime in February, perhaps? "
( Bruce picked up the pencil and pad he'd been working problems out on. )
Alfred found him and patched him up.
In bed, Bruce told him about his hunt of the criminal Peter Scotta, in which he'd fallen at the last hurdle.
" Master Bruce, when was the last time you had a full night's sleep? "
" I believe I just did. "
" Unconsciousness from lack of blood doesn't count. "
" I don't.. it was.. sometime in February, perhaps? "
( Bruce picked up the pencil and pad he'd been working problems out on. )
Promethea #24-25
Jan. 14th, 2019 07:22 pmlaughing_tree
Some people probably think that there should be more action, but when we get finished with this Kabbala storyline around #24, there will be action and the readers will then wish there wasn’t so much. -- Alan Moore
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Promethea #13-18
Jan. 11th, 2019 12:45 amlaughing_tree
I also had an experience with a demonic creature that told me that its name was Asmoday. Which is Asmodeus. And when I actually was allowed to see what the creature looked like, or what it was prepared to show me, it was this latticework…if you imagine a spider, and then imagine multiple images of that spider, that are kind of linked together–multiple images at different scales, that are all linked together–it’s as if this thing is moving through a different sort of time. You know Marcel Duchamp’s “Nude Descending a Staircase”? Where you can see all the different stages of the movement at once. So if you imagine that you’ve got this spider, that it was moving around, but it was coming from background to foreground, what you’d get is sort of several spiders, if you like, showing the different stages of its movement.
Now if you imagine all of those arranged into a kind of shimmering lattice that was turning itself inside out as I spoke to it, and I was talking to my partner at the time and sort of saying, This thing’s showing us it’s got an extra dimension I haven’t got, and it’s trying to tell me that it’s good at mathematics. It’s vain. There’s something fourth-dimensional about this. This is all stuff I was actually saying at the time, while I was having the experience, which was pretty extreme.
Anyway. Over the next couple of weeks I started researching Asmodeus and found out that actually, yeah, he’s the demon of mathematics.
-- Alan Moore
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Promethea #11-12
Jan. 8th, 2019 11:14 pmlaughing_tree
I was still committed to progress, which I think was evidenced by some of the very experimental things we did in Tomorrow Stories with Greyshirt and Cobweb, some of the incredibly experimental things we did in Promethea, which I think pushed the capacities, the capabilities, of a flimsy comic book about as far as I have ever personally pushed them. Some of the things we did on Promethea were so smugly clever that I'm still basking in the radiance three or four years later. -- Alan Moore
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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
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