Promethea
by Alan Moore, J. H. Wiliams III, J. H. Williams III · first published 2000
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After years of hiding the goddess within her, the government is closing in on Sophie Bangs once more, leaving her no choice but to release Promethea and loose an apocalypse upon the world.
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…Everything' by Bill Bryson. Fiction: * 'Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders' by Neil Gaiman * 'The Name of the Wind' by Patrick Rothfuss Graphic novels ("comics"): * 'Watchmen' by Alan Moore * 'Promethea' by Alan Moore (actually I'm halfway through this, and loving every bit of it) Special mentions: * 'How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big' by Scott Adams - I only gave this a 4-star rating…
on “Ask HN: What are the best books you've read in the past year?” ↗I don't know about "low brow culture" but comic books and rap have some fantastic material in them. Consider works like Promethea from Alan Moore or In Her Magic Box by Atmosphere.
on “We need to reclaim our attention” ↗…constructed "relationships between" and "purposes for" environment. Even those can be expressed in a contingent to the constructs manner. An adjacent medium is comics and among my favorite examples is Promethea by Alan Moore who draws this hypothesis forth that one can consider ideas to exist more (and be "more real") than our concrete physical presences. There too, like Mutual Core and so many other works,…
on “They're Close to My Body: A Hagiography of Nine Inch Nails and Robin Finck (2020)” ↗…point of his body of work has been missed). Narcissism to him seems to be all encompassing. He sees it everywhere. This seems to be saying something unhealthy about him. There' a bit in the comic book Promethea, written by Alan Moore, where an angel says that demons aren't so bad. Confused, a human asks the angel why she would think that. Aren't Angels supposed to be enemies with demons? Aren't demons supposed…
on “The Logic of Envy” ↗