Promethea 5

Alan Moore may get too much credit for the series, unless we acknowledge all the artists who collaborated: the images all the way through are more than half the meaning, and at times approach iconic status, in all senses. Kabalah, Tarot, and other occult traditions are deftly invoked. Promethea summarizes a heckuvalot of Mark Booth's best-selling 575-page "The Secret History of the World" in a much more approachable chunk. It lives up to Christina Hoff Kraemer's essay about it in "Graven Images: Religion in Comic Books and Graphic Novels" -- and then some. Superb!

Years have passed since Volume Four, and Sophie Bangs has managed to suppress the mystic power inside her. She works in a video store and lives with a boyfriend, and everything seems hunky dory. But now the government has recruited the Tom Strong family to help capture her, and the terrified young woman is forced to once again unleash Promethea, who is destined to bring about the apocalypse. The whole America's Best team assembles to try to stop her, and everyone else from the series puts in an appearance as things look hopelessly grim. It's a satisfying conclusion to a genre-busting epic that changed early on from a superheroine comic to...something else entirely, and it features the stellar art of co-creator J.H. Williams III (SEVEN SOLDIERS OF VICTORY). The final chapter, which could have been conceived by no one else but the groundbreaking Alan Moore (WATCHMEN), is indescribable. You just have to see it. This whole book may just alter your ideas of what superhero comics can do.

I have to admit, it was very much a fitting end that there wasn’t really an end to it all.

It was an honor to read this book. Moore and team really contributed to the art and to imagination with this series.

Great end to the series. Alan Moore is a genius. Great purchase transaction.

I adore this entire series. Especially interesting for those with interest in Thelema/OTO/Kabbalah leanings. Beautiful illustration, well written. book itself bound well.

This graphic novel did an excellent job in capping off the Promethea series.This was so good that I nearly had a spiritual experience by reading it. This makes me wish that everyone else in the world had the same experience. With current events as they are, we surely need it!

The art is amazing in this series, I absolutely loved it. Promethea book 5 is the conclusion of the story, and probably my least favorite parts, but only because it went from being amazing, to be rushed and well, honestly bizarre. I still enjoyed it, just not as much as books 3 and 4.

Quite a trip! Intricately put together.

Esse épico dos quadrinhos, contando inclusive com outros personagens que já tomaram vida em outras publicações do Alan Moore (Tom Strong e sua turma), chega ao fim após uma aula sobre o ocultismo ocidental.O autor se mostra gabaritado no assunto, além de nos apresentar um desfecho digno de arrepiar e com artes calculadas friamente para a tarefa, dando a impressão, muitas vezes, de que estamos lendo diretamente de um universo paralelo.Esta pode não ser a edição favorita do leitor médio do Promethea ou do Alan Moore, mas recebe 5 estrelas pelo desfecho em relação a obra.

A brilliant end to a wonderful series. Moore's writing as always is amazing as he explores and brings to life the world of magic through his characters. J. H. Williams is a master of the art of storytelling switching styles as the story slides through the dimensions.

Quasi introvabile, dopo 7 anni dalla pubblicazione ancora come nuovo (con ancora il poster all'interno) ... non ho parole!!!!!Grazie:)

No puedo explicar lo que significa Promethea porque es un cómic para leerlo y releerlo, investigar su simbología, estudiar su filosofía y empezar a meterte en el mundo de la historia alternativa y lo esotérico para descubrir, quizás, más cosas de las que esperabas. Los diseños y su guión son de lo mejor que he visto nunca.