FREE PROMETHEA: BOOK 1 PDF Mick Gray,J. H. Williams,Alan Moore | 160 pages | 24 May 2006 | DC Comics | 9781563896675 | English | La Jolla, CA, United States Absolute Promethea, Book One by Alan Moore Promethea: Book 1 Bangs was a just an ordinary college student in a weirdly futuristic New York when Promethea: Book 1 simple assignment changed her life forever. While researching Promethea, a mythical warrior woman, Sophie receives a cryptic warning to cease her investigations. Ignoring the cautionary notice, she continues her studies and is almost Promethea: Book 1 by a shadowy creature when she learns the. Ignoring the cautionary notice, she continues her studies and is almost killed by a shadowy creature when she learns Promethea: Book 1 secret of Promethea. Surviving the encounter, Sophie soon finds herself transformed into Promethea, the Promethea: Book 1 embodiment of Promethea: Book 1 imagination. Her trials have only begun as she must master the secrets of her predecessors before she is destroyed by Promethea's ancient enemy. Alan Moore's entrancing masterpiece is presented for the first time in this Absolute format, collecting the first twelve issues of the mystical series and featuring the spectacular art of J. Williams III. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Williams III Illustrator. Ignoring the cautionary notice, she continues her studies and is almost killed by a shadowy creature when she learns the Sophie Bangs was a just an ordinary college student in a weirdly futuristic New York when a simple assignment changed her life forever. Get A Copy. Slipcased Hardcover1st edition Absolutepages. More Details Original Title. Absolute Promethea 1. Other Editions 8. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Absolute Promethea, Book Oneplease sign up. Be the first to ask a question about Absolute Promethea, Promethea: Book 1 One. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Promethea: Book 1 your review of Absolute Promethea, Book One. With JH Williams III, Moore was united with perhaps his most spectacular artistic collaborator, and the results are stunning visually even when the narrative content appears to be abandoned altogether, which is increasingly what happens. At first, the comic seems to be fairly standard stuff, if unusually good-looking. We have an alternate-reality the year it appearedwhere an Promethea: Book 1 New York City is full of hovercars and patrolled by police flying-saucers. The city's leading superheroes are the Five Swell Guys, who are locked into a long-running battle with supervillain the Painted Doll. Against this background, a lowly teenager discovers a mysterious connection with an otherworldly force. Yet on closer inspection, the details are a little…off. The leader of the Five Swell Guys is called Roger, yet is clearly a buxom Promethea: Book 1 in a suit and tie, presenting as female. The city's mayor is unnecessarily complicated, suffering from multiple personality disorder with no fewer than forty-two separate personalities, some of whom also have multiple personalities of their own. From the very beginning, there is a Promethea: Book 1 sense of instability around issues of sex, gender, identity, language, and finally reality itself. Leveraging this sense of strangeness, the comic gradually spirals off into a philosophical exploration of Alan Moore's spiritual beliefs, taking in Kabbalah, the tarot, world mythology, literary history, Aleister Crowley, sex magic and talking snakes. Through her, she can access the Immateria, a realm of all imagined reality where pervasive corporate brands rub shoulders with characters from literature, religion and fairytale. It's a wonderful idea, since positing creativity as a guiding entity allows you in one fell swoop to unite religion, art, dream and fantasy all together in one coherent conceptual space. Many of the issues of Promethea look in detail at how such ideas might apply to world history, sexual relationships, feminist poetry, the apocalypse, or whatever. It Promethea: Book 1 provides a perspective from which to examine the medium of Anglo-American comics itself, from its habit of sexualising female artwork to the pragmatics of sequential storytelling. On an artistic level, it's hard to get across what an amazing achievement Promethea can be. Art styles shift and blur together depending on the subject or the era, from Sunday-funny cartoons to bursts of photorealism. One issue is all widescreen, read horizontally; another runs in an infinite loop with the last page leading back to the first. Double-page spreads are used to extraordinary effect, with ideas floating round and round in curious ways: The Promethea: Book 1 alone offer some incredible riffs on artistic themes or styles: This deluxe 20th anniversary edition includes Moore's script for issue 3, which blew my mind: I had no idea quite how completely he directed every aspect of the pages, detailing exactly how the panels should be laid out, what Promethea: Book 1 appear in the art, facial expressions, composition, where our perspective is — everything. Three full pages of close-set text go into describing the first page of the comic alone. The density of ideas and talents flying around in here means that Promethea can be many different things for different readers — an art portfolio, a superhero adventure, a philosophical exegesis, a religious vision. But, like his prose behemoth Jerusalemit is at its deepest level a true story, about how Alan Moore believes reality works. Fortunately, Alan Moore is insane, so his ideas in this area are constantly surprising, provocative and original. View all 4 comments. Aug 26, Sophie rated it it was Promethea: Book 1 Shelves: comicsfavorites. I cannot, I repeat, cannot recommend this book enough. It's absolutely gorgeous and mind-blowing, and my favorite Alan Moore comic, hands down. Obviously, the name's a feminine version of Prometheus, which means "forethought" I'm just quoting my old review here, which I left for the final trade paperback here. Williams III's artwork. That man is a god. And in this edition, his work gets to shine even more even though Promethea: Book 1 smells funny. I'm honestly a little torn on what to give this beautiful, confounding, thrilling, boring, adventurous stack of nonsense and brilliance. It really is that all over the place Promethea: Book 1 terms of its execution. Promethea: Book 1 the very core of this, Moore has a fantastic idea: a "superhero" really more of a goddess who is the living embodiment of stories and fiction. She's able to harness not only the power of imagination, but the "Immateria" itself, a kind of dimensional energy source that contains all the tapped a I'm honestly a little torn on what to give this beautiful, confounding, thrilling, boring, adventurous stack of nonsense and brilliance. She's able to harness not only the power of imagination, but the "Immateria" itself, a kind of dimensional energy source that contains all the tapped and untapped creative output in the universe. It's a huge, high-concept idea that elevates creativity to an act of godhood, and it plays around with its metaphysical concepts in very interesting ways. For the most part. Also, truly, this book lives and dies on J. Williams' artwork. It is utterly stunning. I've read a bunch of Williams subsequent efforts Ex MachinaBatwomanetc. It feels like the full force of his creativity has been put behind Prometheaand thanks to that, every single page crackles with magical beauty. It's like reading a dream, and I frankly can barely Promethea: Book 1 believe it's even possible. But then, we get to the story. The first Promethea: Book 1 of the book or so feels like it's building to something. A young woman inherits the power of Promethea via unseens circumstances, and has to come to grips with the broader implications of wielding that power. She's not just a superhero, she's basically in charge of the world's perception of reality, and it's a heavy burden. I like that setup, and was even interested in the somewhat plodding issues in which she's taught exactly where her power comes from. It's like most superhero origin training sequences, only it's weirder and more colorful. No big deal! But then, after a bit, Moore gets pretty damned pretentious. He starts going down all these rabbit holes about sex and how having it connects us to a higher plane of existence, and then Promethea: Book 1 this eternally long issue about tarot that is just an utter slog to get through, Williams' artwork notwithstanding. At this point, I'm just ready to see Promethea start exploring and using her power, not just talking about the creation of the world Promethea: Book 1 the most boring, faux-philosophical ways imaginable. So, I guess what I'm saying is, this one has some hurdles you have to clear for sure, but on the whole, it's worth it. It's a deeply original idea with some great things to say about the evolution of storytelling, all wrapped up in Promethea: Book 1 superhero package. Promethea: Book 1 hoping the next couple of volumes chill out on all the grandstanding, but knowing Moore, I'm not keeping my fingers crossed. Jan 02, Michael rated it it was amazing Shelves: favorites.