6/2/2023 0 Comments Missing you metropolis![]() Fortunately there’s a legion of poets with mightier pens.ĭavid Orr, for instance. Still, I’m not seeing Alan Moore on any Contemporary Poetry syllabi. All Billy Batson has to do is yelp, “Shazam!” Promethea wields a glowing caduceus, the double snake wand of Hermes that shoots celestial flame.When Sophie changes back to her old self, she’s gripping her pen and notebook again. Six more stanzas of that, quatrains, ABAB rhyme scheme, even a loose iambic pentameter. ![]() I am the words made flesh, the flesh made words. Rhyme, meter, stanza breaks-Sophie’s got to do it all:įrom he bound to a rock and plagued by birds. Sound easy? In the first issue, a shadow demon is battering at her collapsing door as she scribbles in a notebook. In order to transform into the fantasy warrior Promethea, college geek Sophie Bangs has to. my all time favorite belongs to Alan Moore. ![]() ![]() Of all the methods of transformation employed by alter egos-spin in a circle, rip your clothes off in a phone booth, dial H.E.R.O. ![]()
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