Strangest of all for what has been up to now a very strange book, volume 3 of Prophet is disappointingly conventional. Like a horror film franchise, the longer Prophet goes on, the more its weird mysteries get explained away and lose their allure.

While the art continues to be phenomenal, I completely lost track of the plot. Couldn't make heads nor tails of it. It didn't help that 3/4 of the characters were clones or different versions of one another. I quit about halfway through.

This shit has gone completely crazy. I just can't follow it anymore. Just nuts.

I said "Boux" when startled at work the other day...I can't say I understand all or even most of what is going on in this arc, but I still like it. At times now I can't remember if I'm actually high or not while I read Prophet. I think I saw a space vagina in this volume. I would love to hear the creative team behind Prophet discuss each panel. We need that DVD extra. I need to understand.

I think this might be where the tide starts to turn back against Graham and Prophet a little bit - while the minimalism and starkness of the first two books made them a real wonder, it's gotten to the point where it's hard to track exactly which Prophets we've seen are still alive, where they are, and what they're doing. I'm hoping that some of the bits toward the end of this indicate that there's a winnowing of sorts coming.

In this volume of Graham's Prophet, the actual relationship to the prior Rob Liefeld comic becomes clearer--and there is a relationship. As well as the identities and motives for many of the characters within the series. Several clones start to develop distinct personalities, and the stakes of the past and current world-building start to really add into a coherent picture. It is still utterly alien, but the familiarity that was hinted at in earlier volumes becomes clearer and clearer beyond the

'Prophet Volume 3: Empire' is a throwback to the earlier science fictional works of Michael Moorcock, Philip Jose Farmer and others of the psychedelic SF era. Which is to explain that it's pretty weird. So weird, that it's probably not for everyone, but for those nostalgic for the strange SF of the late 60s and early 70s, this might be just what you are looking for.I'll attempt to describe it, but at times, it seemed to want to defy that for me. It is a sort of post-human age, but humans are gen...

This volume scrolls back a bit from the serial style in volume two, and once again has us following a new Prophet clone as they go to discover their mission. I much prefer this to the overarching story, which they do also revisit in this volume but it's more vague here, and vagueness really plays to the strength of this story.The art is still the star of this run of comics but the story here is fun and weird and not as referential to the 90s series as volume two.Overall, this series is one of my...

Great art, chaotic story...

Like Vol. 2 I found this visually stunning but utterly impenetrable story-wise. I'll admit that hard sci-fi is not typically what I end up reading but is that why I'm stuck? It seems like Graham isn't really interested in holding the reader's hand but the result is so far on the other side that I do question whether it's just me and if others are following along with clarity. A quick perusal of the other GR reviews tells me that I'm not alone in my assessment. Maybe I'll give Vol. 4 a shot, even...

I love Prophet even though I could not tell you what the plot is.

So, I'm 2 books into this five book series, and I have to say, I'm not too sure what is going on. I don't know if I'm just not following along or if it just isn't clear. What is the storyline here? So Old Man Prophet is the good guy (?) and he wants to stop the earth Empire from rebuilding, so he is gathering together some of the main stars of the 90's Image universe. But wait, is New Father John on the same side as Old Man Prophet? They seem to be taking to the same person about what is going o...

I hate it when this happens with a graphic novel. The art this volume is much better than the previous two, but now the plot is so convoluted, that it makes no sense. We have finally come full circle to the characters from the very first issue, but whatever they are doing is a complete mystery to me. On the plus side, this book has helped me realize that I do not like this type of story. So now I know that when I see some story about the sad future of the human race, I can just steer clear. Ther...

People need to stfu about Saga & Y the Last Man, this here is what us real sci-fi lovers have been sitting around and craving; instead of humanizing all the aliens into hackneyed anime hentai and wanna be Buffy the Vampire Slayer yuck-yucks, this does a fair sight of alien-i-zing all the humans and giving you meaty plots (literally & figuratively) that you can sink your teeth into and GOD BLESS YOU unapologetic seriousness that assumes you have brains in your skull or perhaps have already read a...

Prophet continues to be the most unabashedly cosmic comic book in today's market, but I get the feeling periodically dropping in to the world and story Graham and others are creating works against Prophet. By the time I feel reacquainted with the world that is presented, the trade paperback is over.

Reprints Prophet (4) #32 and #34-38 (January 2013-August 2013). Brain-Mother continues to rule the John Prophets, but the arrival of Newfather could mean change. Newfather finds himself in contact with Troll who also is working with Old John Prophet to help combat a threat that could destroy the entire empire…might force Newfather and his allies to make a decision about their place among Brain-Mother’s ranks.Written by Bradon Graham, Simon Roy, and Giannis Milonogiannis, Prophet 3: Empire is the...

More weird goodness from Graham and an art style that's growing on me from Roy & Milonogiannis. The narrative is really starting to come together and I'm happy that "New Father" John came back from the previous volume and is involved in something else here. Very enthused about all of that. Looking forward to more strange, gross, but imaginative sci-fi!

Prophet is... grim, and disgusting, and incredibly alien, and it amuses me endlessly. The premise of the comic is as strange as it is hilarious: take an old Rob Liefield character from the 1990s glut of disposable superheroes, and extrapolate an entire far-future world from him, a world in which every human being or thing (and a lot that isn't even recognisably human anymore) is physically and spiritually descended from him. It's all more than a little Mastaba Snoopy...In the universe of Prophet...

Somehow even more bewildering and cosmic than the first two volumes.

This comic certainly veers close to incomprehensibility with some frequency. Here, one of the biggest problems is the ever-growing cast of clone characters.But, it stays just this side, and so remains a strange and intriguing comic. It's particularly great to finally start returning to some of our past characters, so that we can (hopefully) see their stories start to dovetail.