Ok Boomer KuwangerOct 3, 2017

I finally found a copy of the final volume of #Promethea, #AlanMoore 's psychedelic romp through #Kabbalah

This arc incorporates other elements from the America's Best #Comics line, which I've otherwise never touched.

Honestly, as whacky as the whole magic thing comes across, it's definitely better read as a spiritual framework than as an actual belief system.

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#Promethea is an incredible exploration of what an apocalypse is and signifies. It's not just everything blowing up or everyone dying. It's about transcending from the material to the spiritual.
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The veil is lifted and all time is stretched out before us, crystalline and infinite.
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I'm reminded of Bill Hicks saying, "we are all the universe experiencing itself subjectively"
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The paneling is in a league of its own. #JHWilliamsIII blows the idea of #comics as "sequential art" out of the water.
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Storytelling is how we mediate the subjectivity of our reality to each other. It's one of our most base and human impulses.
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#GrantMorrison plays with a lot of the same themes, but he hides them behind abstruse symbolism.

The meaning behind #comics like #Nameless needs a decoder ring for the in crowd to "get it". #Promethea openly invites the reader to understand it.