I read this ages ago, except for the long, long chapter at the end. I tried to read it, but it made my eyes tired. That probably means that Alan Moore is somewhere in his English cave, twisting his rings and scowling at his voodoo doll of me, but large amounts of tiny font in front of tie-dye-ish backgrounds just doesn't work for me. And thus, I ignored writing a review or even saying I truly finished reading this series.

Okay, so what do I remember? This was a pretty good ending. It was a coming together of Promethea's "real world" aspect and her spiritual/mental/dream(?) journey. It's the end of the world, and it's Promethea's doing. It's also one of those "is she gonna destroy the world because she was told she'd be the one to destroy the world, or was she always going to destroy it no matter what" sort of deals. I felt like, with the build up of the past four books, this finished rather quickly and then moved on to Alan Moore's history of the world/magic chapter. Overall, I liked the series, but I could've gone without. The artwork was one of the strongest points of the series. ( )

Hmm. The final Promethea turned, somewhat unexpectedly apocalyptic. (I mean, it was mentioned in the fourth book but I didn't take it all that seriously.) In some ways I didn't like this one as well as the others, since I primarily enjoyed the shenanigans of Promethea while on Earth and in the kabbalistic system; in other ways, though, I did really enjoy this story. It's an unusual take on the standard apocalypse story, which was nice. The same caveats from my review of the fourth book still apply, though this was a lot less dependent on esoteric knowledge than the previous books. ( )

Reading this volume felt like falling into a dream. The visuals are stunning, and Moore is given full license to run amok with his mysticism. ( )

In this volume of Promethea Moore goes off on a really, really, really long trip into various areas of mysticism. Unless you are really interested in that sort of thing, it can make your eyes glaze over and want to skip a lot of it.

Perhaps even if you are, as well. So be warned, from that point of view. It is still pretty, though.

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This started off so well,but then I lost interest when it started getting all metaphysical. Oh joy - another book explaining tarot and paths and the tree of life. Yawn. ( )