Promethea Vol 1 1
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Listen, kid, you take my advice. You don't wanna go looking for folklore. And you especially don't want folklore to come looking for you. 
Appearing in "The Radiant Heavenly City"
Featured Characters:
- Sophie Bangs
- Barbara Shelley
- Promethea
Supporting Characters:
Villains:
- Smee
Other Characters:
- Five Swell Guys
Locations:
- Immateria
Items:
Vehicles:
- Hover-taxi
- Hover truck
Synopsis for "The Radiant Heavenly City"
A man in Alexandria 411 A.D. sends his daughter Hypatia away because he knows that men are coming for him. A group of spear-wielding Christians appear at the mans door and kill him.
Flash forward to New York, 1999. Two college students are sharing a hover-taxi and discussing term papers. One of the students, Sophie Bangs, is preparing to interview Barbara Shelley, the widow of the man who used to write the Promethea comic book. The student has discovered that the name Promethea turns up in literature as far back as the 18th century and is writing her term paper about Promethea. Sophie interviews Shelley and is told the best thing for her to do is to drop the idea entirely.
Flash back to Alexandria, 411 A.D. Hypatia is wandering the dark desert, alone and scared.
Flash forward to 1999. Science heroes Five Swell Guys stop Sophie and ask her if she has seen anything strange. She says no and after they leave she is excited by the prospect of telling her friend Stacia about the encounter. Sophie is walking up a stairwell when a shadow detaches from the wall and grabs her shoulder. She shakes it off and rushes up the stairs to the roof of the building. The shadow chases Sophie across the roof and throws her off the edge. Promethea runs along a telephone wire and leaps into the air, catching Sophie and angling their fall, so that Promethea can grab the edge of a bridge to prevent them from falling. Sophie clambers up Promethea to the bridge, where Promethea joins her. by the time Promethea has arrived atop the bridge, the shadow has arrived. Promethea faces off with the shadow, punching a hole in it and tossing it off the bridge into an oncoming truck. Sophie finds out the shadow is called a Smee and that the truck will not have killed it. Promethea tells Sophie to come with her. The two take refuge in a dilapidated warehouse and Promethea introduces herself to a vexed Sophie.
Flash back to Alexandria, 411 A.D. Two gods, Thoth-Hermes, appear to Hypatia in the desert. They tell the girl that they are two of her father's gods and that they cannot protect her in this world. However they can protect her in the Immateria world, but if she comes to that world with them, she will no longer be a little girl. She would live there eternally as all stories do. The gods ask Hypatia her name and she tells them it is Promethea.
Flash forward to 1999. Promethea tells Sophie that she was a real little girl in 5th Century Egypt, whose father was killed as a heretic by a Christian mob. Promethea became a living story. Through the ages, women connected to the story in some way, perhaps a relationship to an author or artist who worked on Promethea's story, channeled Promethea and in some cases, became Promethea. It is after hearing this story that Sophie realizes that Promethea is Barbara Shelley, the woman she tried to interview about the comic book. Promethea tells Sophie that whoever sent the Smee to kill her, thinks that Sophie is about to become the next Promethea. Promethea gives Sophie a pen and paper and tells her to go in a corner and write about Promethea. Sophie does so.
The Smee arrives and is about to kill Barbara Shelley, when Sophie, having turned into Promethea, arrives and kills the Smee. Promethea flies Shelley to a hospital.
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