Promethea

Every now and then, something so special enters your life that you feel as though it was created just for you.  I've said that I was born with a Promethea shaped hole in my heart, and wasn't complete until I read it.  It sounds melodramatic perhaps, but anyone who has had a similar experience with a work of art can relate I'm sure.  It's like falling in love.  Rather, it is falling in love - that real, rare kind which you know will last for the duration of your life. 

Promethea is a comic book series created by the illustrious Alan Moore.  There is no way I can possibly do it justice, other than to say it is an ingenious treatise about imagination and magic, as well as a damn good yarn about a young woman named Sophie who discovers that she is the newest incarnation of a powerful demi-goddess (for lack of a better word) named Promethea.  It is an absolute extravaganza, cram-packed with mysticism, the occult, alchemy, mythology, Tarot, Kabbalah, sci-fi, history, human emotion, and scathing satire about the modern world.  And it has perhaps the most beautiful, most mind-boggling art I have ever seen in this medium, courtesy of J.H. Williams III.  I don't want to give anything more away about this precious masterpiece.  It is out in five trade paperback volumes.  Do see for yourself.

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[StevenErnest]

Promethea filled my heart as well.
It is a stunning work.

I purchased the hardcovers and the trade paperbacks, and even went back and bought all the single issues. I have extra copies of issue 32 to share/give to others. Did you make the poster out of that issue, and/or buy one...? Amazing!

If you like Moore's thoughts on Mysticism, etc., look for an online copy of a loooong interview he did for the alternative weekly paper, Arthur.

Atop my monitor sits the action figure of Promethea and Sophie. ^_^