Promethea Paperback Volumes 1 - 5 With All Issues 1 - 32 Alan Moore JH Williams III
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Available here are all 5 books of Promethea! These books are all in pretty good shape. The covers are in great shape the only flaws are on the edges of some of the pages and one of the spines (book 4) has a black mark. Please review the photos and if you have any questions feel free to ask!Info about the stories you'll find:
Here is some more from Moore himself: "With Promethea, when I was coming up with the initial titles for ABC Comics, I thought, well, I want a comic with a stron...g female character. I'd also like to have a comic where I can release some of the steam of my magical researches." - Alan Moore in interview
"As far as I can remember, the original idea behind Promethea was to come up with something that worked as a mainstream superhero character, maybe looked a bit like Wonder Woman or Doctor Strange in a weak light, and which would enable me to explore the magical concepts that I was interested in before a mainstream comics audience that may never have encountered these ideas before (and may very possibly never have wanted to). It seemed to make sense that we should start at the shallow end, with inflatable arm-bands, so as not to alienate the readership from the very outset (the plan was to wait for about twelve issues and then alienate them). [...] Eventually I decided that the only thing to do would be to at least attempt it and let the chips fall as they may: as it turns out we have lost several thousand readers over the course of this saga, not as many as I'd expected, and the ones that remain are either dedicated and firm in their resolve, or else have had their cerebral cortex so badly damaged by the last four or five issues that they are no longer capable of formulating a complaint, or any other sort of sentence for that matter."And speaking for me and Jim and Mick and Jeromy and Todd, I think we're all rather smug about how well the piece had turned out artistically. The strict kaballistic colour schemes, as an example, while they looked very dubious and unworkable on paper, have turned up some beautiful and often startling effects in practice. Issue 23, the issue dedicated to Kether, the godhead of the kaballistic system, had a magical palette of four colours, these colours being "White", "Brilliant White", "White-flecked-with-gold", and most unhelpful of all, "Brilliance". Despite how hopeless this sounded, we decided to stick to our guns and attempt the issue using only white and gold, and apparently the first few coloured pages do indeed look celestially beautiful." - Alan Moore from an interview in Eddie Campbell's publication Egomania #2
More from Moore: "I wanted to be able to do an occult comic that didn't portray the occult as a dark, scary place, because theat's not my experience of it. I don't thinks it's the experience of many occultists. Why would we want to be occultists if that meant that we had to spend our lives in a dark, scary place? Utilizing my occult experiences, I could see a way that it would be possible to do a new kind of occult comic, that was more psychedelic, that was more sophisticated, more experimental, more ecstatic and exuberant. In Jim and Mick and Jeremy I've obviously found people who were exactly right for the book, that have shared my vision of it, and have added their own bits to that vision. So Promethea is about as perfect an expression of the occult as I could imagine doing in a mainstream super-hero comic book" - Alan Moore in The Extraordinary Works of Alan Moore, pg 188.
and this: "I would prefer to keep my actual opinions about magic confined to Promethea, and God knows some of the readership have trouble with that, so I would prefer it if magic didn't obviously permeate all of my work" - Alan Moore in Heroes and Monsters: The Unofficial Companion to The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, pg. 238
A quote from JHW3: Todd [Klein] is the main person responsible for the great cover ideas. He suggests an idea to everyone and we go from there. He designs it all. The main thing I want to see with the covers to Promethea is that we tribute them in some way to another artist or artistic style.
And here is a review of the topics and influences of the various cover designs by Klein and art by Williams:
Issue #1 "The Radiant Heavenly City"
Issue #2 "The Judgment of Solomon"
Issue #3 "Misty Magic Land" - according to designer Todd Klein, "inspired by the famously surreal newspaper strip Little Nemo In Slumberland by Winsor McCay"
Issue #4 "A Faerie Romance" - "after Morris"
Issue #5 "No Man's Land" - "after Leyendecker"
Issue #6 "A Warrior Princess" - "after Brundage"
Issue #7 "Rocks and Hard Places" - cover inspired by romance comics from the mid-20th century
Issue #8 "Guys and Dolls" - "thank you Terry Gilliam"
Issue #9 "Bringing Down the Temple" - stained glass window
Issue #10 "Sex, Stars and Serpents" - riff on the cover to The Beatles' album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, by Peter Blake
Issue #11 "Pseunami" - according to designer Todd Klein, "wide-screen horror films of the 1950s-60s"
Issue #12 "Metaphore" - "after MacLean" referencing psychedelic poster art queen Bonnie MacLean
Issue #13 "The Fields We Know" - "after Parrish" (Maxfield Parrish)
Issue #14 "Moon River" - "attempting Virgil Finlay"
Issue #15 "Mercury Rising" - "thanks Escher"
Issue #16 "Love and the Law" - "thanks Peter Max"
Issue #17 "Gold" - "after Dali"
Issue #18 "Life on Mars" - "after Frazetta"
Issue #19 "Fatherland" - "for love of Van Gogh"
Issue #20 "The Stars are But Thistles" - "after Richard Upton Pickman" (a fictional painter created by H. P. Lovecraft)
Issue #23 "The Serpent and the Dove" - "inspired by Mucha"
Issue #25 "A Higher Court" - "inspired by McCay"
Issue #27 "When It Blows Its Stacks" - "thanks to Ross Andru, " specifically the 1976 comic Superman vs. the Amazing Spider-Man
Issue #29 "Valley of the Dolls" - "with admiration for Warhol"
Issue #31 "The Radiant Heavenly City" - according to Williams, "an imitation of the tarot card 'The Judgement/The Aeon'"
Issue #32 "Wrap Party" / "Universe" - credited to Williams and Klein "after the end"
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Here is some more from Moore himself: "With Promethea, when I was coming up with the initial titles for ABC Comics, I thought, well, I want a comic with a stron...g female character. I'd also like to have a comic where I can release some of the steam of my magical researches." - Alan Moore in interview
"As far as I can remember, the original idea behind Promethea was to come up with something that worked as a mainstream superhero character, maybe looked a bit like Wonder Woman or Doctor Strange in a weak light, and which would enable me to explore the magical concepts that I was interested in before a mainstream comics audience that may never have encountered these ideas before (and may very possibly never have wanted to). It seemed to make sense that we should start at the shallow end, with inflatable arm-bands, so as not to alienate the readership from the very outset (the plan was to wait for about twelve issues and then alienate them). [...] Eventually I decided that the only thing to do would be to at least attempt it and let the chips fall as they may: as it turns out we have lost several thousand readers over the course of this saga, not as many as I'd expected, and the ones that remain are either dedicated and firm in their resolve, or else have had their cerebral cortex so badly damaged by the last four or five issues that they are no longer capable of formulating a complaint, or any other sort of sentence for that matter."And speaking for me and Jim and Mick and Jeromy and Todd, I think we're all rather smug about how well the piece had turned out artistically. The strict kaballistic colour schemes, as an example, while they looked very dubious and unworkable on paper, have turned up some beautiful and often startling effects in practice. Issue 23, the issue dedicated to Kether, the godhead of the kaballistic system, had a magical palette of four colours, these colours being "White", "Brilliant White", "White-flecked-with-gold", and most unhelpful of all, "Brilliance". Despite how hopeless this sounded, we decided to stick to our guns and attempt the issue using only white and gold, and apparently the first few coloured pages do indeed look celestially beautiful." - Alan Moore from an interview in Eddie Campbell's publication Egomania #2
More from Moore: "I wanted to be able to do an occult comic that didn't portray the occult as a dark, scary place, because theat's not my experience of it. I don't thinks it's the experience of many occultists. Why would we want to be occultists if that meant that we had to spend our lives in a dark, scary place? Utilizing my occult experiences, I could see a way that it would be possible to do a new kind of occult comic, that was more psychedelic, that was more sophisticated, more experimental, more ecstatic and exuberant. In Jim and Mick and Jeremy I've obviously found people who were exactly right for the book, that have shared my vision of it, and have added their own bits to that vision. So Promethea is about as perfect an expression of the occult as I could imagine doing in a mainstream super-hero comic book" - Alan Moore in The Extraordinary Works of Alan Moore, pg 188.
and this: "I would prefer to keep my actual opinions about magic confined to Promethea, and God knows some of the readership have trouble with that, so I would prefer it if magic didn't obviously permeate all of my work" - Alan Moore in Heroes and Monsters: The Unofficial Companion to The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, pg. 238
A quote from JHW3: Todd [Klein] is the main person responsible for the great cover ideas. He suggests an idea to everyone and we go from there. He designs it all. The main thing I want to see with the covers to Promethea is that we tribute them in some way to another artist or artistic style.
And here is a review of the topics and influences of the various cover designs by Klein and art by Williams:
Issue #1 "The Radiant Heavenly City"
Issue #2 "The Judgment of Solomon"
Issue #3 "Misty Magic Land" - according to designer Todd Klein, "inspired by the famously surreal newspaper strip Little Nemo In Slumberland by Winsor McCay"
Issue #4 "A Faerie Romance" - "after Morris"
Issue #5 "No Man's Land" - "after Leyendecker"
Issue #6 "A Warrior Princess" - "after Brundage"
Issue #7 "Rocks and Hard Places" - cover inspired by romance comics from the mid-20th century
Issue #8 "Guys and Dolls" - "thank you Terry Gilliam"
Issue #9 "Bringing Down the Temple" - stained glass window
Issue #10 "Sex, Stars and Serpents" - riff on the cover to The Beatles' album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, by Peter Blake
Issue #11 "Pseunami" - according to designer Todd Klein, "wide-screen horror films of the 1950s-60s"
Issue #12 "Metaphore" - "after MacLean" referencing psychedelic poster art queen Bonnie MacLean
Issue #13 "The Fields We Know" - "after Parrish" (Maxfield Parrish)
Issue #14 "Moon River" - "attempting Virgil Finlay"
Issue #15 "Mercury Rising" - "thanks Escher"
Issue #16 "Love and the Law" - "thanks Peter Max"
Issue #17 "Gold" - "after Dali"
Issue #18 "Life on Mars" - "after Frazetta"
Issue #19 "Fatherland" - "for love of Van Gogh"
Issue #20 "The Stars are But Thistles" - "after Richard Upton Pickman" (a fictional painter created by H. P. Lovecraft)
Issue #23 "The Serpent and the Dove" - "inspired by Mucha"
Issue #25 "A Higher Court" - "inspired by McCay"
Issue #27 "When It Blows Its Stacks" - "thanks to Ross Andru, " specifically the 1976 comic Superman vs. the Amazing Spider-Man
Issue #29 "Valley of the Dolls" - "with admiration for Warhol"
Issue #31 "The Radiant Heavenly City" - according to Williams, "an imitation of the tarot card 'The Judgement/The Aeon'"
Issue #32 "Wrap Party" / "Universe" - credited to Williams and Klein "after the end"
Payment I accept Paypal. Payment is expected within 4 days. If you are unable to pay within that time or are waiting for another item to end, please let me know. If there is no payment or communication in those 4 days an unpaid bidder case will be opened and the item relisted.
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