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===Weeping Gorilla Comix===
[[Image:Promethea Weeping Gorilla.JPG|thumb|The Weeping Gorilla from ''Promethea'' #1]]
The "Weeping Gorilla Comix" is a series of one-panel comics featuring a weeping gorilla, with a thought bubble pronouncing some thoughtful phrase, usually cynical and self-pitying in nature: "Why do good things happen to bad people?", "Who [[remaindered book|remaindered]] the book of Love?", "She gets the kids and the house. I get the car", etc. The whole concept is an industry joke about the supposed tendency for comics to get increased sales from a picture of a [[gorillas in comic books|gorilla]], a weeping character, or the color purple on the cover.<ref>As described by [[Mark Waid]] in an editorial in ''[[Secret Origins]]'' Volume 2, number 40.</ref> Occasionally Moore shows snippets of the gorilla's [[foil (literature)|foil]], the Chucklin' Duck, who is happy-go-lucky and naively optimistic, with smug saying such as "Heh heh! I got out of internet trading just in time!". Both the Weeping Gorilla and Chucklin' Duck [[Motif (narrative)|motif]]s were used in the ''[[Greyshirt (comics)|Greyshirt: Indigo Sunset]]'' series by [[Rick Veitch]], and a Weeping Gorilla Comix panel makes a [[cameo appearance]] in the story "King Solomon Pines" in ''[[Tom Strong's Terrific Tales]]'' #5 (scripted by [[Leah Moore]] and illustrated by [[Sergio Aragones]]). The ''[[Tesla Strong]]'' miniseries included, amongst various versions of Solomon, one who resembled the Weeping Gorilla.
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===Cover references===
''Promethea'' features countless visual references as well as textual ones. For the majority of the series, each issue's cover features an imitation of a particular artist or style. These imitations were often explicitly credited by Williams next to his signature:

:Issue #1 "The Radiant Heavenly City"
:Issue #2 "The Judgment of Solomon"
:Issue #3 "Misty Magic Land" - according to designer Todd Klein, "inspired by the famously surreal newspaper strip ''[[Little Nemo In Slumberland]]'' by [[Winsor McCay]]"<ref>[http://kleinletters.com/PrometheaCovers.html]</ref>
:Issue #4 "A Faerie Romance" - "after [[William Morris|Morris]]"
:Issue #5 "No Man's Land" - "after [[J. C. Leyendecker|Leyendecker]]"
:Issue #6 "A Warrior Princess" - "after [[Margaret Brundage|Brundage]]"
:Issue #7 "Rocks and Hard Places" - [[Romance comics in the United States (1946–1975)|romance comics]] from the mid-20th century
:Issue #8 "Guys and Dolls" - "thank you [[Terry Gilliam]]"
:Issue #9 "Bringing Down the Temple" - [[stained glass]] window
:Issue #10 "Sex, Stars and Serpents" - cover to [[The Beatles]]' album ''[[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]]'', by [[Peter Blake (artist)|Peter Blake]]
:Issue #11 "Pseunami" - according to designer Todd Klein, "wide-screen horror films of the 1950s-60s"<ref>Alan Moore et al. ''Absolute Promethea'' Book Two. DC Comics, 2010.</ref>
:Issue #12 "Metaphore" - "after [[Bonnie MacLean|MacLean]]"
:Issue #13 "The Fields We Know" - "after [[Maxfield Parrish|Parrish]]"
:Issue #14 "Moon River" - "attempting [[Virgil Finlay]]"
:Issue #15 "Mercury Rising" - "thanks [[M. C. Escher|Escher]]"
:Issue #16 "Love and the Law" - "thanks [[Peter Max]]"
:Issue #17 "Gold" - "after [[Salvador Dalí|Dali]]"
:Issue #18 "Life on Mars" - "after [[Frank Frazetta|Frazetta]]"
:Issue #19 "Fatherland" - "for love of [[Vincent van Gogh|Van Gogh]]"
:Issue #20 "The Stars are But Thistles" - "after [[Richard Upton Pickman]]" (a fictional painter created by [[H. P. Lovecraft]])
:Issue #23 "The Serpent and the Dove" - "inspired by [[Alfons Mucha|Mucha]]"
:Issue #25 "A Higher Court" - "inspired by [[Winsor McCay|McCay]]"
:Issue #27 "When It Blows Its Stacks" - "thanks to [[Ross Andru]]", specifically the 1976 comic ''[[Superman vs. the Amazing Spider-Man]]''
:Issue #29 "Valley of the Dolls" - "with admiration for [[Andy Warhol|Warhol]]"
:Issue #31 "The Radiant Heavenly City" - according to Williams, "an imitation of the tarot card 'The Judgement/The Aeon'" [http://eroomnala.0catch.com/31.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120205214254/http://eroomnala.0catch.com/31.html|date=2012-02-05}}
:Issue #32 "Wrap Party" / "Universe" - credited to Williams and Klein "after the end"
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