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PROMETHEA BOOK 5 COLLECTION

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LDones

02:02 / 28.07.05

This is out today in hardcover. Nice collection, with a 2-page description of the creation process on the final issue, and shots of JH's original paintings for the poster backgrounds.

Oh, it also includes the usual extra sketches between issues, and a fold-out of the final issue in poster form, with utterly microscopic text. So for all of you that bought the actual issue and made the poster, A Winner Is You.

I'm happy to have the entire series in hardcover, it's a peaceful, interesting read, with really stirring art all the way from Williams, Gray, and Cox.

Kirk Ultra

04:16 / 28.07.05

Are they ever going to sell the full size poster versions of the final issue again? I think that'd be something good to throw into the petition as well (or maybe do a side petition for). Hearing about the microscopic text in the vol 5 hardcover version of the poster is really heartbreaking, i was really loking foreward to finally being able to get the poster version of this issue, but if its not even readable then its back to the increibly futile hunt for the full size limited edition posters again.

Aertho

12:53 / 28.07.05

Chances are Promethea's done. There aren't enough devotees to warrant an ultimate edition or even a poster series.

Still, wild ride, ...and I'm getting mine.

Mark Parsons

17:26 / 28.07.05

Don't count more PROMETHEA out just yet! Scott Dunberi has indicated that an Absolute Edition may well happen at some point.

Myself and a cohort started an online petition for an AE for PROMETHEA, to which JHW3 gave a thumbs up to here:

Absolute Promethea Petition

So pop by the thread, then zap over to the online petition page, which contains lots of cool links to articles and interviews with the creators.

Mark Parsons

17:30 / 28.07.05

BAH!

As usual, I cannot make hyperlinx work here!

Here is the old school, engraved in stone link:

http://barbelith.com/topic/21101

Quantum

17:50 / 28.07.05

I can't wait for this, I bought three copies of 32 and am going back for more- JHW3 congratulations if you see this thread again, top work! (I still say the Blue side is fractionally better)

Dan Fish - @Fish1k

17:56 / 28.07.05

Hopefully this should be the clickable working links you were after Furioso:
http://www.barbelith.com/topic/21101/

http://www.ipetitions.com/campaigns/Absolute_Promethea/

Mark Parsons

21:47 / 28.07.05

Thank you DanFish! Nice to know there's a professional around...

I don't know what I keep doing wrong (I was copying the format from the lith-wiki page) but perhaps I will figure it out when I grow opposable thumbs or something.

Meow.

Mark Parsons

21:51 / 28.07.05

I went to SDCC and saw some of JHW3's original art up close and MY GOOD GODDESS I have never wanted seven hundred dollars (double page spread: many of them!) so fiercely!

Our Lady Has Left the Building

06:46 / 09.08.05

Bought book five at the weekend and loved it, I tend to feel that along with everything else it should have come with one of those magnifying sheets at the pull out poster of the last issue, while extremely gratifying to have is now rather difficult to read...

Ben Danes

08:03 / 09.08.05

How much were the posters originally? I picked up both for $5AUS when I grabbed the Vol. 5 hardcover last week. Bargain?

ONLY NICE THINGS

08:21 / 09.08.05

So... am I alone in finding the final issues of Promethea essentially pretty ropey from a storytelling point of view? Which is to say, leaving aside the brave and exciting use of the comic book medium to cast a spell, challenge our ideas of what a comic book should do and so forth, did anyone else find the apocalypse interminable and rather uninteresting?

osymandus

09:06 / 09.08.05

No i thought it worked rather well, its supopsed to be the Apocolypse , you can try to stop it all you like , its not going to happen , kid genuis , spandex guys and girls or living ink isnt going to stop it ;-).

Like resiting change .

Aertho

12:04 / 09.08.05

apocalypse interminable and rather uninteresting

It is rather the opposite of what one would expect of the End Of The World. But maybe you mean the pacing? We'd been on and on about how this last volume of Promethea had less and less happen... three days in Millenium turns into a day and a half in NYC, then 3/4 overnight with Painted Doll and mass murder, then a few hours of Hansard and Ball making their way to Promethea, then one long conversation between everyone and Promethea that's really just a flashback anyway.

The quickening speed and shortening pacing matches the time theory presented in Promethea 12. Everything spirals down to a head.

But yeah, he beat us over the head a few hundred times with what Promethea says in 31.

PatrickMM

21:04 / 09.08.05

Even though the apocalypse may have happened over a lot of issues, I was never at all bored, or even felt like it was taking longer than necessary because, for one thing the art was so phenomenal, just looking at that was entertainment in and of itself, but also because there really was a lot of stuff going on, it was the best fusion of the plot and character stuff with the philosophy in the whole run of the book. I could understand how reading it on the monthly schedule it would have seemed interminable, but reading it in one go, it was amazing.

Our Lady Has Left the Building

16:41 / 10.08.05

I suspect I might have bailed from Promethea before a year was up if I'd been buying it every month,I don't think I could have stood either the kaballah stories or the apocalypse in single-issue form. But as chapters of a book I thought it was okay, but with everyone repeatedly saying throughout the series "Promethea is bring round the apocalypse but maybe it won't be a literal apocalypse, maybe it's the end of a way of thinking" and then, blow me, it was! Did seem a bit anti-climactic.

And then there's Sophie's sudden change of skin-colour in the last issue, as though someone had realised that her Dad all that time back hadn't been white either...

Aertho

16:59 / 10.08.05

Bah! Sophie was tan! If she is as ethnic as Daddy, she prolly darkens up if given enough time to lay out in the sun.

That wasn't such a big deal for me as the BANG BANG BANG saturation of the future. Pink is really PINK!!! after the Apocalypse.

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