10 Amazing Comics You've Never Heard Of
3. Promethea
Despite (or perhaps because of) the widespread success of Watchmen and V For Vendetta, many of Alan Moore's lesser-known titles languish in relative obscurity. Such seems to be the case of Promethea, a post-modern book that combines ancient myth with modern superhero.
The story focuses on Sophie Bangs, a scholar researching a (fictional) legendary warrior woman named Promethea who appears time and again in myth and history. Tapping into the idea that tales become real in the telling, Sophie soon finds herself as the latest incarnation of this amazonian figure.
Reading the above, you get the feeling that Moore would have really liked the series to have focused on Wonder Woman. In fact, in many ways Promethea tries to do for Wonder Woman what Neil Gaiman did for the Sandman. Combining the realms of myth and magic with some of the more traditional stock elements of superhero books, Moore managed to create something that was so off the wall that no-one really knew how to respond to it.
Of course, being Moore, you'd need a pretty in-depth knowledge of Hermetic magic and the like to get each and every esoteric reference and Easter egg in Promethea's story.