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Promethea's the kind of book that, every time you think you should
drop it, that you can live without it, that it's so abstract that you'd be better off waiting for
the next trade, you get to an undeniably brilliant, medium-bending passage in the issue at hand
and realize that you'd be a fool not to read a 24-page continuing panel that loops back over
itself, or see Hermes stare at the reader, recognizing that he's in a comic book, as soon as you
fucking could. The first twelve issues of Promethea focused on the dawning of a
new Promethea and her adventures in a retrofuturistic city. Beginning with #13 and running
through #25 (published bimonthly over two years), the title embarked upon a lengthy story
exploring (if not dissecting) the world of magic framed around Promethea's journey through the
Immateria. Issues #26-33 dealt with nothing less than the apocalypse, gathering the various
heroes of America's Best Comics to deal with a Promethea intent upon ending the world.
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![]() Larger Version Available | Promethea #1 | 32 pages; also includes a 2-page text history of Promethea; Alex Ross cover; cover-dated August 1999 | |
| Promethea #1 [alternate cover] | J. H. Williams & Mick Gray cover | ||
| Promethea #2 | cover-dated September 1999 | ||
| Promethea #3 | cover-dated October 1999 | ||
| Promethea #4 | 8 pages of Charles Vess art; cover-dated November 1999 | ||
| Promethea #5 | cover-dated February 2000 | ||
| Promethea #6 | cover-dated March 2000 | ||
![]() Larger Version Available | Promethea: Book One | collects Promethea #1-6
[REVIEW AND PURCHASE THIS BOOK FROM AMAZON.COM] | |
Larger Version Available | Promethea: Book One [hardcover edition] | published months prior to the softcover | |
| Promethea #7 | about 8 pages of beautiful Jose Villarrubia digital art; cover-dated April 2000 | ||
| Promethea #8 | cover-dated July 2000 | ||
| Promethea #9 | cover-dated September 2000 | ||
| Promethea #10 | cover-dated October 2000; published on Wednesday, 30 August 2000 | ||
| Promethea #11 | occurs on the night of 31 December 1999 and immediately afterwards (overlapping Tom Strong #7); cover-dated December 2000; published on Wednesday, 25 October 2000 | ||
| Promethea #12 | continued from the previous issue; the art flows from page to page, with the last page flowing into the first, making all 24 pages a single, looping (and thus infinite) panel; cover-dated February 2001; published on Wednesday, 20 December 2000 | ||
| Promethea: Book Two | collects Promethea #7-12 | ||
| Promethea: Book Two [hardcover edition] | published months prior to the softcover
[REVIEW AND PURCHASE THIS BOOK FROM AMAZON.COM] | ||
| Promethea #13 | jumps the narrative forward to the summer of 2000; Jose Villarrubia cover; cover-dated April 2001; published on Wednesday, 21 February 2001 | ||
| Promethea #14 | cover-dated June 2001; published on Wednesday, 25 April 2001 | ||
| Promethea #15 | has a double-page spread that cleverly reads as a Moebius strip and not by its panel breakdowns (which are brilliantly present); has Hermes look at the reader; cover-dated August 2001; published on Wednesday, 27 June 2001 | ||
![]() Larger Version Available | Promethea #16 | cover-dated October 2001; published on Wednesday, 22 August 2001 | |
![]() Larger Version Available | Promethea #17 | the two Prometheas visit the realm of the sun and have visions of Apollo and Christ; cover-dated December 2001; published on Wednesday, 31 October 2001 | |
![]() Larger Version Available | Promethea #18 | cover-dated February 2002; published on Friday, 28 December 2001 | |
| Promethea: Book Three | collects Promethea #13-18 | ||
| Promethea: Book Three [hardcover edition] | published months prior to the softcover | ||
![]() Larger Version Available | Promethea #19 | "Fatherland"; published on 27 February 2002 | |
![]() Larger Version Available | Promethea #20 | published on Wednesday, 17 April 2002 | |
![]() Larger Version Available | Promethea #21 | published on Wednesday, 26 June 2002 | |
| Promethea #22 | cover-dated November 2002 | ||
![]() Larger Version Available | Promethea #23 | 32 pages; cover-dated December 2002 | |
![]() Larger Version Available | Promethea #24 | the new and old Promethea fight, juxtaposed to a battle between two past Prometheas, one representing the West (Rome and Europe) and the other representing the East (Byzantium and Islam); cover-dated February 2003 | |
![]() Larger Version Available | Promethea #25 | cover-dated May 2003; published on Wednesday, 5 March 2003 | |
| Promethea: Book Four | collects Promethea #19-25 | ||
| Promethea: Book Four [hardcover edition] | published months prior to the softcover | ||
![]() Larger Version Available | Promethea #26 | Tom Strong appears in the conclusion; cover-dated August 2003 | |
| Promethea #27 | Tom Strong appears to warn Sophie, causing her to transform into Promethea and begin bringing about Armaggeddon; cover-dated November 2003 | ||
| Promethea #28 | Tom Strong assembles a team consisting of Jonni Future (from Tom Strong's Terrific Tales), plus Cobweb, Jack B. Quick, Greyshirt, and Splash Brannigan (all from Tomorrow Stories); Stan the mechanic revealed to be behind the Painted Doll, who actually is a number of mutiple, independent bodies; cover-dated January 2004 | ||
![]() Larger Version Available | Promethea #29 | ||
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| Promethea #32 | |||
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