Promethea #21

Promethea #21 (August 2002) arrives with one of the series' most arresting covers, rendered by J. H. Williams III: a radiant, laughing woman — wreathed by enormous coiling red serpents and clutching a golden chalice — presides over a composition rich with occult symbolism, including a winged caduceus gleaming against a starlit background. A scroll at the bottom quotes Revelation's vision of Babylon, setting a deliberately mythic, unsettling tone for the Alan Moore–penned story within, "The Wine of Her Fornications." This is Promethea at its most visually daring — a series that consistently treats its covers as works of art in their own right.