Alan Moore - Promethea: Collected Edition

Pros: Gorgeous artwork; fascinating story

Cons: It ends!

The Bottom Line: Easily well worth the cover price.

Review: Promethea, Book 1 is a graphic novel. It is the first 6 issues of the Promethea comic book, collected. For those few people who have yet to notice that many (if not most) comic books are not aimed at children, this is not aimed at children,...

Pros: Fascinating heroine and story, exquisite craftsmanship in art and writing. Attractive hardbound edition.

Cons: Cuts off at the end of an issue, not the end of an arc.

The Bottom Line: Riveting and resonant, this modern myth explores and defines the provinces of the imagination.

Review: College student Sophie Bangs has settled on the subject of her folklore term paper: Promethea, a character who evolved across poetry, cartoons, and comic books, from faerie lover to warrior queen to comic-book heroine. When she goes to visit Barbara...