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Lucifer, Vol. 9: Crux (Lucifer #9)
Forces in Hell and on Earth prepare for a final struggle for supremacy in CRUX. Reprinting stories from issues #55-61, this volume ventures through space and time and the places outside both, weaving a sweeping saga out of multiple character threads mortal and immortal alike.
Paperback, 168 pages
Published
January 4th 2006
by Vertigo
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The world is ending, and unlike the scenes you often see in doomsday flicks, there are no episodes of the earth cracking, fireballs raining down on cities, or skyscrapers collapsing on screaming humans. Not yet, at least. In the Lucifer series, it goes from the inside out: “The hands of the artists lose their cunning, the minds of musicians their sweet calculus. And emotion dies too—lover looks at lover, parent at child, feeling nothing save the dead grey void of anomie. The world loses its savo...more
The archangel Michael lies dead at the base of the World Tree, and his power, let loose, burns his daughter Elaine and his brother Lucifer out of this universe and into a newborn one. Their absence allows the first woman, Lilith, and a handful of others to plot grabbing power from Heaven while the Powers in the Silver City remain disoriented.
Christopher Rudd as the new ruler of Hell wants to make up for the sin of Hell itself. Lilith and her offspring want to gain a final revenge for...more
Christopher Rudd as the new ruler of Hell wants to make up for the sin of Hell itself. Lilith and her offspring want to gain a final revenge for...more
i have to say this is to me one of the weaker volume of the series, though the quirky, caricaturesque and non-epic art is beautifully ironic as the volume deals with christian dogma. some of these stories and interpretations would be blasphemous in some other religions (elaine belloc's universe for ex.). I love the gnostic references, and the lack of lucifer in this volume but I just didn't feel the thrill while reading this volume as I did in all others.
Mike Carey, Lucifer: Crux (Vertigo, 2006)
God abdicated his throne a couple of volumes back, leading directly to the re-emergence of Fenris and the beginning of the end of both our universe and Lucifer's own creation. There were other repercussions, too, and as Crux opens, we see the first of them; a dying Michael tries to pass his power into Elaine, but the resultant explosion sends both Elaine and Lucifer into another realm entirely, leaving the way clear for the Lilim to attempt to...more
God abdicated his throne a couple of volumes back, leading directly to the re-emergence of Fenris and the beginning of the end of both our universe and Lucifer's own creation. There were other repercussions, too, and as Crux opens, we see the first of them; a dying Michael tries to pass his power into Elaine, but the resultant explosion sends both Elaine and Lucifer into another realm entirely, leaving the way clear for the Lilim to attempt to...more
I really enjoy this series (and I have 2 pages of Peter Gross's original art), but I ended up reading the books too far apart, so I didn't have a good sense of the overall arc. I need to read them again, someday, now that I have all 11 volumes.
Possibly my favorite of the series. I really, really love The Yahweh Dance which is the best story of this volume, I think, and one of the best stories of all of Lucifer - but that "the best" part is tricky when it comes to this series, because I keep coming up with more stories that are the best!
The pacing for the series is not slow; even so, relative to the other graphic novels the pace picks up in this one. The title is apt and the plot is about as extreme as it can be (in a good way).
I really liked the arc with Lilith here. The number of diverse elements in the story was really cool.
Read this series! Ask Alexis! She'll tell you too!
This volume contains the issue that is really at the heart of my love for the series as a whole. "The Yahweh Dance" is, in my least humble of opinions, great beyond measure. I love the way the series, in general, deals with alternate universes, and the chance to see Elaine try her hand at making a third is fantastic, slyly explaining the apparent paradoxes between an all-powerful creator and an apparently flawed creation. I love the art; I love the fluid nature of time; I love that Ca...more
The artwork in this trade is incredible
this is taking me forever to read but it's still pretty awesome.
I liked this version a little better than the previous versions. Again I have no idea what is going on, but it was fun to see Elaine's attempts to create a universe where people are nice to each other. Also Jill, the Rosemary of Rosemary's Baby of the story, making deals with the gods to survive. And finally, Mazikeen fighting. Who doesn't like that?
A volume about those that need to start from scratch and those that need to finish what the started.
The Yahweh Dance stands out as the best chapter in the volume, perhaps in the series. I guess creating the world is not so easy.
The Yahweh Dance stands out as the best chapter in the volume, perhaps in the series. I guess creating the world is not so easy.
This series continues to interest me. It's fantastic. I love the different art styles introduced throughout and the plot line that...It's been woven so well that it's brilliant.
That's more like it. Back on track! Dramatic and trippy.
I've lost track of the series to sufficiently like this.
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Mike Carey was born in Liverpool in 1959. He worked as a teacher for fifteen years, before starting to write comics. When he started to receive regular commissions from DC Comics, he gave up the day job.
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Mike Carey was born in Liverpool in 1959. He worked as a teacher for fifteen years, before starting to write comics. When he started to receive regular commissions from DC Comics, he gave up the day job.
Since then, he has worked for both DC and Marvel Comi...more
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