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A review by snuf
Promethea, Vol. 1 by Alan Moore
4.0
So I stumbled into a youtube rabbit hole on the philosophy of Alan Moore and found this comic. Super weird guy, Alan Moore, with even weirder ideas - delightful guy. The premise of this story is absolutely amazing and totally original (to me, at least). I'm understanding now that this has roots in Hermeticism, which led me down another rabbit hole that was equally entertaining, but mostly rubbish. Still, spinning some ancient philosophy into a modern day comic is cool. Although he drastically overestimated our technological timeline because the setting is 1999 and we have flying cars and clone skin grafts. He had way to much faith in us. It's 2020 now and we still can't order spare parts from our own clones, which is outrageous.
The art in this one is 5/5.
Overall this was a pretty trippy read and I'm looking forward to reading the others. To add another layer of meaning he even wrote these in 32 issues to intentionally mimic the 32 branches of some hermetic tree or something? Idk, I'm still in the rabbit hole on this.
The art in this one is 5/5.
Overall this was a pretty trippy read and I'm looking forward to reading the others. To add another layer of meaning he even wrote these in 32 issues to intentionally mimic the 32 branches of some hermetic tree or something? Idk, I'm still in the rabbit hole on this.