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Prophet (2012), Volume 1
Brandon Graham, Emma Ríos, Simon Roy, Rob Liefeld, Farel Dalrymple, Giannis Milonogiannis
3.67 AVERAGE
99 reviews for:
Prophet (2012), Volume 1
Brandon Graham, Emma Ríos, Simon Roy, Rob Liefeld, Farel Dalrymple, Giannis Milonogiannis
3.67 AVERAGE
Brandon Graham’s Prophet continues a book by Rob Liefeld in the style of Hayao Miyazaki’s Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind and Moebius’s Arzach. It’s an insane combination of influences that, despite the odds, totally works.
This is an interesting title to compare with Saga: while both feature both a ton of gore and alien creatures that are meant to be hideous, Saga manages to--and I think this is not just a matter of the art, although it starts there, but of the story as well--achieve a sense of sublimity, whereas Prophet is just gruesome.
Beautifully and with-crazy-details illustrated, and weirdly dreamlike and self-reflective in what seems like a non-linear narrative I came in towards the middle of? Definitely weird, and while that's not bad, this was not entirely my cup of gimlets. Others should read this and passionately refute me, though.
This comic was pretty weird and kind of hard to get into in the beginning. There’s more action and thrill later on in the trade, but the beginning is purely world building and drawn out exposition.
Weirdly enough, instead of a focus on character development or plot, the overall comic really just builds off the world in multiple short stories. I’m sure it’s perfect for some readers, but it’s definitely not the kind of science fiction I like. This one relies on technically describing everything: the sky, the food, the smells, the creatures, the ships, the cultures. The main character seems like it’s John Prophet, but it’s really the universe around him. Everything is very cut and dry. There’s no emotional pull and everything I read felt like I was at a distance, like there was no choice but to be totally disconnected from all of the stories and the characters involved, but immersed in the world altogether.
It’s a very dry comic, but the world and the premise is imaginative and complex. I wouldn’t read a second trade, but I definitely see the draw and would recommend this to certain friends.
Weirdly enough, instead of a focus on character development or plot, the overall comic really just builds off the world in multiple short stories. I’m sure it’s perfect for some readers, but it’s definitely not the kind of science fiction I like. This one relies on technically describing everything: the sky, the food, the smells, the creatures, the ships, the cultures. The main character seems like it’s John Prophet, but it’s really the universe around him. Everything is very cut and dry. There’s no emotional pull and everything I read felt like I was at a distance, like there was no choice but to be totally disconnected from all of the stories and the characters involved, but immersed in the world altogether.
It’s a very dry comic, but the world and the premise is imaginative and complex. I wouldn’t read a second trade, but I definitely see the draw and would recommend this to certain friends.
This series is probably the definition of "not for everyone" but I'm completely hooked, several collections into the run. John Prophet is a cloned human soldier, awakened from cryogenic sleep some tens of thousands of years into the future (it seems), at a point when Earth has been resettled by multiple alien races and the human galactic Empire has fallen into disrepair. Can John Prophet reawaken his clone brethren and resuscitate the Empire? *Should* he? Cuz this is a sneaky story, let me tell you. Anyway, you know how Saga kind of blew your mind with its complex and ingenious depiction of alien life in the universe? Compared to Prophet, Saga is a populist Spielberg tale; Prophet truly and consistently brings the weird, and it all hangs together and builds, episode after episode, into an epic, impressively bizarre tale of the far far future. (And this is coming from someone who loves Saga sufficiently that yes I would marry it.) I got turned onto Brandon Graham via the jarringly hilarious King City, and some of the same seemingly arbitrary but nevertheless delicious storytelling tactics are on display here; at the same time, I'm a true believer that Prophet is heading somewhere deep and awesome. The artwork is gorgeous and the sci-fi narrative is masterful.
Prophet was one of those muscley-characters-with-big-guns from the Image founders back in the day that I never had much time for, but here he's resurrected and reimagined in a far-distant future that is utterly unrecognisable. A John Prophet awakens from a cryopod and traverses the planet altered by time and conflict and aliens on a mission to restart the Earth Empire. Across the galaxy more John Prophets awaken in strange and exotic locations and embark on esoteric missions of their own as the Earth Empire lumbers back to life. This is dense with detail and incident, rich and lush with worldbuilding, completely alien settings full of wonders and horrors, and seems to be ramping up to be a massive, epic space opera in the tradition of Jodorowsky or Moebius. Who would've thought? A brave, bold move and a fantastic piece of work.
like one female-identifying person but i can't help it i love it. BRANDON GRAHAM'S ART THOUGH. dreamy sigh. robots. xeno.
it is weird that they only seem to eat meat. you can have weird scifi edible plants too everyone.
it is weird that they only seem to eat meat. you can have weird scifi edible plants too everyone.