The latest in Rhi Reads Through Indie and Rare-ish Comics...

[rhivolution]

Near the end of the Tarot/Tree of Life arc in Alan Moore's Promethea, and I really don't understand how anyone could read this without Wikipedia. I keep having to look stuff up. It's also so fucking didactic--if it were just the travel narrative, that'd be fine, but then you keep getting hit with the splainy stick of Neopaganism and it's just like SHUT UPPP.

I still like Promethea better than his other stuff. And we now have confirmation that Sophie Bangs is indeed Latina, so someone should add her to the chromatic heroes list and write fic because I say. Though you'd have to read through all the above wtfery. The art (Williams III) is gorgeous, if that helps.

I don't really have an appropriate comics icon yet (cannot decide on the right person: Martha Washington? Kate Godwin? Dr Faiza Hussain? all of the above?), so I will use Fat Pony.

Off topic: If you like vids (or Minority Report or Merlin), please check out my poll from yesterday. You don't have to be a WisCon person, my vids are for the public in the long run.

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Re: reference

[rhivolution]

I always meant to read that, but the film was complicated enough to me as a high school student that I've never gotten around to it. I'll have to remember to check on bits.