A review by ostrava
Promethea, Vol. 2 by Mick Gray, Alan Moore, J.H. Williams III
2.0
Dropped this one real fast.
The good: the art's pretty accomplished, the colors especially. By far my favorite thing about the comic.
The bad: too much exposition, exposition I sadly don't care about, as occultism isn't a topic that has ever interested me. It could, but if it were to happen, this is not the place to start. Other than that the absence of characterization makes the reading flat. It's Moore's worst attempt at it that I've read to date.
The ugly: I'm getting real tired of reading weird misogyny in Moore's comics because he's an otherwise very progressive guy. There's always some rape, or a young lady having sex with an old ugly bastard. I don't think I've read of a single important female character in one of his books that didn't undergo through either of the two processes...
Moore, you're capable of so much more than this. Top 10 is next, don't dissapoint me...
The good: the art's pretty accomplished, the colors especially. By far my favorite thing about the comic.
The bad: too much exposition, exposition I sadly don't care about, as occultism isn't a topic that has ever interested me. It could, but if it were to happen, this is not the place to start. Other than that the absence of characterization makes the reading flat. It's Moore's worst attempt at it that I've read to date.
The ugly: I'm getting real tired of reading weird misogyny in Moore's comics because he's an otherwise very progressive guy. There's always some rape, or a young lady having sex with an old ugly bastard. I don't think I've read of a single important female character in one of his books that didn't undergo through either of the two processes...
Moore, you're capable of so much more than this. Top 10 is next, don't dissapoint me...