{"id":832,"date":"2007-08-12T14:55:28","date_gmt":"2007-08-12T14:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=832"},"modified":"2007-09-16T11:08:51","modified_gmt":"2007-09-16T11:08:51","slug":"promethea-book-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/08\/12\/promethea-book-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Promethea, Book 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/prom4.jpg\" alt=\"Promethea, Book 4\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By <strong>Alan Moore<\/strong>, <strong>J H Williams III<\/strong> &amp; <strong>Mick Gray<\/strong> (America&#8217;s Best Comics)<br \/>\nISBN: 1-4012-0032-X<\/p>\n<p>In this collection of the adventures of the goddess of Myth and Imagination, Alan Moore and JH Williams conclude their epic and surreal exploration of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Higher Realms\u00e2\u20ac\u009d known as the Immateria, which began in the previous volume.<\/p>\n<p>The plot, as such, is in the classic formula of the pilgrimage of wonders, where the protagonists explore radically variant realities and philosophies for our voyeuristic edification, challenging a lot of comic book preconceptions about narrative and giving the illustrator a chance to show his versatility with a spellbinding variety of art styles and designs.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not all avant-garde however, as the interwoven subplot of Promethea&#8217;s replacement on Earth follows much more traditional paths, with absolute power absolutely corrupting the substitute Goddess, thereby threatening the world with a very real swathe of destruction. This is yet another challenging yet rewarding read from the very edge of mainstream comics.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 2003 America&#8217;s Best Comics, LLC. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 By Alan Moore, J H Williams III &amp; Mick Gray (America&#8217;s Best Comics) ISBN: 1-4012-0032-X In this collection of the adventures of the goddess of Myth and Imagination, Alan Moore and JH Williams conclude their epic and surreal exploration of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Higher Realms\u00e2\u20ac\u009d known as the Immateria, which began in the previous volume. The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/08\/12\/promethea-book-4\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Promethea, Book 4&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graphic-novels","category-promethea"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-dq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}