As anyone who read the 20 bajillion comments I left on Glenn's recent post can probably guess, I'm totally in love with Alan Moore's Wilhelmina Murray. I think she's an even better study of the kind of radically feminine strength that Moore tries to showcase in Promethea, precisely because she's physically and emotionally vulnerable and can't just turn bullets into moths or teleport into other dimensions. I believe that if we succeed at getting homo sapiens settled down and happy in the 21st Century without wiping ourselves off the map, it'll probably be because we come to better recognize in ourselves exactly the kind of qualities Moore has embodied in this character. Especially soul.
RATING: 98%--"She'd be cuter if she was a redhead," said the man-ape.
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But do you like her in Dracula?
She's OK. I don't find she really comes as alive when she's not leading a morally ambivalent superhero team. I think part of it is that Moore is an exceptional writer and Bram Stoker isn't, although Dracula has a creative narrative style and was the best thing he wrote.
Maybe that's not quite fair--Dracula is a horror classic, and Moore's not for everyone. Still, I think LOEG is much more finely realized in terms of its imaginary world and characters. Maybe Moore is cheating a bit--he didn't have to start from scratch, after all. But Shakespeare didn't either.
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