Promethea
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #384: Duel in the Deep
If you haven’t been noticing a trend over the past few months, I’ve been writing about two series: Promethea and The Invisibles. The former was due to coming into a collection of the entire series s a result of some patient used book store-diving and the former because of what happened as I was reading through Promethea. The usage… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #376: Until the End
I do suppose this is it. After five volumes in just as many weeks, we’ve finally come to the last volume of Promethea and have fully immersed ourselves in the world that’s been created for us. But has it really been created for us, or has it been here the whole time—a fiction hiding just beneath what… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #375: We Will Follow
And it begins again. But this time a little differently as this volume begins in the middle of a story instead of neatly at an arc’s opening. All does become clear, though, as this particular volume continues as we have one of the more major state changes this time—but then the continually shifting world beneath… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #374: For as Long as the Path Goes
The path of Promethea is a long one. Or at least it’s a convoluted one. The path, for the most part, is many things and goes in many different directions, sometimes looping back upon itself endlessly. But then that’s a part of the structure of the story Alan Moore, J.H. Williams III, Mick Gray, Jeromy… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #373: And It Continues
Last week I began my first foray into Promethea, a series that I had initially thought had some kind of basis in mythology, but was a fiction Alan Moore had created as the foundation for a sprawling story centered around the idea of his own creation. Not content with only looking at one volume of this story,… Continue reading
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