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Satisfying your superhero jones can be tough when you're a comix snob like me. Finding a book with the right combination of highbrow intelligence and lowbrow kicks has gotten nearly impossible. Fortunately the world still has Alan Moore, the English comicbook writer who first achieved stateside acclaim in the 1980s with "The Watchmen." For the last couple of years Moore has been the principle writer of multiple titles under the America's Best Comics imprint of Wildstorm Productions (an imprint of DC Comics, a subsidiary of TIME.com's parent corporation, AOL Time Warner). Out of the various projects, "League...
...second major arc began at issue 13, when Promethea decides she must follow her recently-deceased friend into the afterlife. It's no coincidence that this new arc begins at this loaded, occult number. Readers of Alan Moore's recent work, most notably "From Hell," have gotten used to his fascination with the connections between physics and metaphysics. For this journey Promethea follows the Kabbalah, AKA "The Tree of Life," a Hebrew glyph of ten interconnected numbers laid out like a hopscotch pattern. Dedicating one issue to each "sephiroth," or number, Moore imagines each one as a real place corresponding...
...With this ten-issue series of "Promethea" Alan Moore, J.H. Williams III, et. al, have transcended the dull routine of ordinary comicbooks, just as the heroine transcends the lowest "sephiroths" of the Kabbalah. Through ingenuity of form and a willingness to travel to new places, "Promethea" reaches for the heavens...
...have been waiting to see a proposal that seriously takes on the request for a consolidation proposal,” said committee member Alan C. Price, who recently proposed and withdrew his own merger plan. “The superintendent has assured me that one would be coming soon and I still haven’t seen...
...Alan M. Dershowitz, Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard and a graduate of Yale Law School, said that companies in the Yale investment portfolio do business in many nations with repressive regimes...