Inanana's Tears written by Rob Vollmar, drawn by M.P. Mann
Set some 5000 years in the past in the Fertile Crescent of the Tigris and Euphrates during the pre-history of humanity. Somewhat literally pre-history as part of the story concerns the birth of the concept of a written language. As well as the conflict between the old way of living as nomadic tribes and the new ways in cities built around the early mastery of agriculture. A story of religious conflict and gender roles and simple greed for power...
Inanna's Tears is less historical fiction than it is a possible fiction of what might have become history. All set at the beginning of what we might consider to be civilization...