Promethea #1

In Alexandria in 411 A.D., a magician sends his daughter Promethea into the desert before he is mobbed and killed. Promethea is adopted by Thoth-Hermes, who take her to live and grow up in the Immateria (the realm of the collective unconscious). In present-day New York, university student Sophie Bangs becomes interested in the character of Promethea, who appears in poems, comic strips, pulp novels, and comic books. She visits the widow of the last writer of the Promethea comic, and unwittingly sets off a chain of events that will lead to her becoming the next incarnation of Promethea.