10 Amazing Comics You've Never Heard Of

4. MoonShadow

Mr Hitlers Holiday
Marvel

Created by J M Matteis, Moonshadow is, like so many comic books, a coming of age tale. The fact that it's the coming of age tale of the son of a hippy mother and a distant alien father doesn't seem to add much, but Moonshadow is far and away from the likes of Superman and his kind. 

For starters, Moonshadow doesn't have any superpowers, and generally appears to be an ordinary human, despite his unusual parentage.

And rather than being the usual superhero tale, Moonshadow is presented as a surreal fairy-tale of sorts, the main narrative presented as the memories of a much older Moonshadow roughly a hundred years in the future. The story follows MoonShadow as he comes to term with his unique position in the universe and his relationship with his godlike father. 

The art is consistently spectacular from start to finish, despite some of the more abstract pages being more than a little confusing. The narrative somehow manages to be both sentimental and serious, embracing a child-like worldview even when covering more mature topics like war and sex.

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