“Magic of the Robes-and-Grimoires Sort”
Salon’s Douglas Wolk writes a tribute to Promethea, perhaps the best comic about magickal theory ever published.
“When “Promethea” began its 32-issue comic-book run in 1999, it looked like it was going to be British writer Alan Moore’s riff on Wonder Woman: a story about a superheroine with mythological connections, one of the flagship titles of Moore’s whimsical America’s Best Comics project. By the time it ended a few months ago (the final sequence is collected in “Promethea Book 5,” to be published in a couple of weeks by ABC), it had turned into something very different: a rather wonderful excuse for the 51-year-old Moore to explain his version of hermetic Kabbalistic philosophy.”
You can check out a fan-compiled collection of notes and annotations to the series here.
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