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Lucifer, Vol. 7: Exodus (Lucifer #7)
by
Mike Carey,
Peter Gross , Ryan Kelly
From the pages of Neil Gaiman's The Sandman graphic novels...With his mission to rescue the spirit of Elaine Belloc successfully completed, The Morningstar must now face a new challenge. God's departure has left behind both an empty throne in Heaven and the powers that accompany it, and defending the status quo against a pair of wouldbe usurpers requires cooperation betwee...more
Paperback, 168 pages
Published
April 1st 2005
by Vertigo
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The complexity of this series is building up, but with Carey you can never really tell if it’s already the zenith or not yet.
The story of Exodus, seventh volume of the Lucifer series, is spun from the last plot-thread hanging at the end of The Mansions of Silence: God has gone from His throne. I don’t know how that can be, but that is clear enough after His vis-à-vis with Lucifer (or sweet, savage Samael, as God prefers to call him) and Michael. The newsbreak produces expected result...more
The story of Exodus, seventh volume of the Lucifer series, is spun from the last plot-thread hanging at the end of The Mansions of Silence: God has gone from His throne. I don’t know how that can be, but that is clear enough after His vis-à-vis with Lucifer (or sweet, savage Samael, as God prefers to call him) and Michael. The newsbreak produces expected result...more
God has departed Heaven, and, as Lucifer says, "every god, demon, and tooth fairy will want to step into his shoes." Thus, once again, Lucifer finds himself on the side of the angels as the first usurpers try to attain the throne. I have difficulty liking this story arc due to the antagonists, the Titans. I just really didn't feel that they added to the complexity of the plot nor are they a match to the host The ending of the battle in the City of Light was a bit predictable but I did ...more
Mike Carey, Lucifer: Exodus (Vertigo, 2005)
God has departed Heaven, and, as Lucifer says, “every god, demon, and tooth fairy will want to step into his shoes.” Thus, once again, Lucifer finds himself on the side of the angels as the first usurpers try to attain the throne. Worse, Lucifer's own realm holds thousands of immortals who might be plotting, so Elaine, Mazikeen, and a small handful of assistants, on Lucifer's orders, must banish the immortals-- or kill them if they resist. (...more
God has departed Heaven, and, as Lucifer says, “every god, demon, and tooth fairy will want to step into his shoes.” Thus, once again, Lucifer finds himself on the side of the angels as the first usurpers try to attain the throne. Worse, Lucifer's own realm holds thousands of immortals who might be plotting, so Elaine, Mazikeen, and a small handful of assistants, on Lucifer's orders, must banish the immortals-- or kill them if they resist. (...more
One of the things I like best about this series is the idea that reality is a tenuous thing, at best. It's here in Exodus where that idea really seems to come to the fore. God is God because he says he is, and when someone else (or multiple someones) say they are God, then that becomes so. Immortality and mortality have more to do with whim than anything else. And of course, Lucifer's bombshell at the end of the book that without the will of God to make it so, reality is becoming much less real....more
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Excellent issue on topsy-turvy graeco-roman theology; though the same idea is spread through the series of the preacher. sort of weird that it is so obvious. but great anyway.
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Continuing in the same vein... that was absolutely wonderful! The best non-human PoV storytelling I've read in ages. Genius. Sorry, Bellish, but I'm a Lucifer convert all the way now (*insert Aldismuggness*) - and Sandman doesn't - quite - hold up.
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The series does not disappoint.
This one was a quick read - I knocked it out in a single day. I can't say any more without spoilers, so I'll just say it's worth going on.
This one was a quick read - I knocked it out in a single day. I can't say any more without spoilers, so I'll just say it's worth going on.
Thole, King of Stitchglass! I love this character! Well, I have more to say but most of it wouldn't make sense :)
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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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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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