Review: Promethea, #1

Promethea, #1 by Alan Moore
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

It’s a start to something familiar.

If you’re looking for Alan Morres best work this is not it. If you’re looking for him to write about two subjects that he doesn’t usually overload on, magic and sex, this is it. The story starts off about a girl discovering some magical goddess power but that gets brushed aside to the writer can spend the rest of the book talking about magic. Before that we get a wizard bribing the girl for sex in exchange for an intro to magic. The rest is two snake’s talk no about Tarot cards.

This ends up being the writer acting like he’s a modern Prof. Dumbledore teaching you how magic works. The problem is not everyone signed up for a magical history lesson. While it is interesting to a point it does get so esoteric that readers can easily lose interest in the characters. No one really sticks out as their only role is to get to the next lesson in the writers views on magic. There’s better stuff that you can read from him without all of the showing off.

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