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arbre_rieur (arbre_rieur) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-05-13 00:18:00

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char: promethea, creator: alan moore, creator: j.h. williams iii, theme: panel layout, title: promethea

Promethea: Goes both ways
Here's an interesting panel layout trick, courtesy of Alan Moore and J.H. Williams III. In this two-spread, the panels can be read either clockwise or counterclockwise, and in either direction they'll make sense as a sequence and conversation.

I've also included the panels both immediately before and after the spread, so you can see what the conversation is coming out of and what it's going into, for proper context.

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	filbypott 2009-05-13 05:54 am UTC (link)
	That's beautiful, artistic, thought-provoking, and confusing as all heck. (The flow of the conversation, I mean. The Gnostic stuff I understand.) (Reply to this) (Thread)

	arilou_skiff 2009-05-13 06:41 am UTC (link)
	More kabbalah than gnosticism actually. At least right here. Although they're related of course. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	filbypott 2009-05-13 08:20 am UTC (link)
	Ah, my bad. I'm not an expert on either and tend to conflate the two. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	volksjager 2009-05-13 06:51 am UTC (link)
	I think your comment reflects upon the book as a whole. How many issues did it have ? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	besamim 2009-05-13 07:35 am UTC (link)
	Thirty-two. One for each of the paths on the kabbalistic Tree of Life. (Collected in 5 volumes.) (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	volksjager 2009-05-13 07:55 am UTC (link)
	Hmm I think I bailed after the tarrot card issue. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	besamim 2009-05-13 06:51 am UTC (link)
	One of the cleverest moments in the series and, like the decades-spanning, told-in-reverse Greyshirt story recently posted, a fine example of how Moore loves to play with form. (Reply to this)

	endis_ni 2009-05-13 08:04 am UTC (link)
	This is arguably one of my favourite series. There's another wonderful spread (note to self: Buy New Scanner, Dammit!) where the two of them are on a Möbius strip, so the conversation forms another, slightly more complicated, loop. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	unknownscribler 2009-05-13 11:14 am UTC (link)
	Love your icon (Reply to this) (Parent)

	arbre_rieur 2009-05-14 02:19 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, that was neat, too. But this one trumps it, in my opinion, because it can be read both clockwise and counterclockwise and still make sense. The Mobius page one is a loop, but it follows one direction. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	fusil 2009-05-13 09:33 am UTC (link)
	Whoa, trippy. Whenever anyone posts something from Promethea, I stare in awe regret giving up on the book way back when it was still being published. Maybe it's time to buy the trades. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	halloweenjack 2009-05-13 11:40 am UTC (link)
	You won't regret it. Promethea is the gift to yourself that keeps on giving. (Reply to this) (Parent)