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...fives: "Fleep" by Jason Shiga, for Best One-Shot (see review); "The Yellow Jar," by Patrick Atangan for Best Graphic Album -- New (see review); "Tintin: The Complete Companion," by Michael Carr for Best Comics-Related Publication; and Todd Klein for Best Letterer for his work on such books as "Promethea" (see review...
...That means splendor," is a typical bit of sometimes overly-didactic dialogue. Moore delights in revealing how everything ties together, sometimes leaving the reader feeling lectured. Even so, he is enough of a storyteller to never let us go too long without some adventure. Issue 16 has Promethea perilously sink to the bottom of a literal ocean of emotion. In issue 18 she slips into the anti-Kabbalah system of Qlippoth where she encounters the demon Asmodeus. In this world of rage and hate, he appears to her as a giant spider. Then, with a typically clever bit humor, once...
...Moore's fascinating story, the Kabbalah series represents a tour de force of studio comix making. J.H. Williams III does the underlying pencils, filling the panels with surreal details like walls that have bricks standing up on little legs and extracting themselves. One of the hallmarks of the entire "Promethea" series has been the consistently innovative and fun layouts. One double-page spread has Promethea endlessly looping around a Mobius strip. For this particular arc Williams had a new challenge: imitating wildly divergent mediums, from engraving to wood carving to watercolor with nearly entire issues dedicated to one motif...
...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...
...Promethea" can be found at any comic store. Strangely tardy, DC Comics plans on collecting issues 7-12 into a paperback in December. Issues 13-23 have no collection date, but the individual issues can likely be found at comic stores with a decent backstock...