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Lucifer, Vol. 3: A Dalliance With the Damned
by Mike Carey (Goodreads Author), Peter Gross , Ryan Kelly , Dean Ormston
by Mike Carey (Goodreads Author), Peter Gross , Ryan Kelly , Dean Ormston
Airiz C's review
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Aug 04, 11
bookshelves: butt-kicking-heroines, fantasy, graphic-novel, horror, my-favorites, mythology, paranormal, philosophy, science-fiction, surreal, heroes-to-die-for, the-sandman-catalog
Read on August 05, 2011
Norman Mailer once said that The Sandman series by Neil Gaiman is a “comic book for intellectuals”. If ever he’d read the Lucifer graphic novels by Mike Carey, I bet he’d say the same comment about it.
A Dalliance with the Damned is the third volume that chronicles the adventures of the Lightbringer from the pages of The Sandman, Lucifer Morningstar. For the majority of this tome, the dashing devil takes the backseat while the readers are “toured” further in Carey’s well-crafted universe and deeper into the personalities and histories of secondary characters.
I love the concept of the Effrul, a city in hell reminiscent of ancient London, full of pseudo-royalties that bask in eternal pleasure provided by the damned and other demons. This is a sick concept and all, and it got me going “It’s unfair! Fiends and devils that enjoy good fortune in hell? There must be a deeper kind of inferno where these creatures should be punished!” The drug called “pain”, extracted from the actual tormenting of the damned souls and materialized into powder, is an object of addiction among these royalties. The whole idea is genius, contributing greatly in the gradual world-building of this series.
Like its preceding compilation it has a lot going on: Ellain Belloc, the archangel Michael’s offspring with a human, goes to Effrul in attempts to find the spirit of her friend Mona; Mazikeen seeks the help of her kin, the Lilim, when Lucifer refuses to restore her face; Lady Lys, a royalty in Effrul, takes a damned lover to satisfy her needs only to get unexpected results; and Lucifer folds the gateways of his universe in space and time after God announces that no one else can make another version of the Creation.
The action is already at its full-swing, and I’m expecting the plot to thicken some more in the next volumes. I admit that some issues are dropping a notch when the antihero is not present, and this is maybe because the other characters where the spotlight is shining on are not as interesting as the Fallen One himself. With the remarkable storylines of each issue, though, I guess that could be forgiven. Risque parts are to be expected, what with the nature of the majority of this volume (hint: look at the title), and I'm giving a thumb up for the artists and writer for doing their jobs tastefully.
In general, this is a good page-turner. I’m stoked to read the next tome!
A Dalliance with the Damned is the third volume that chronicles the adventures of the Lightbringer from the pages of The Sandman, Lucifer Morningstar. For the majority of this tome, the dashing devil takes the backseat while the readers are “toured” further in Carey’s well-crafted universe and deeper into the personalities and histories of secondary characters.
I love the concept of the Effrul, a city in hell reminiscent of ancient London, full of pseudo-royalties that bask in eternal pleasure provided by the damned and other demons. This is a sick concept and all, and it got me going “It’s unfair! Fiends and devils that enjoy good fortune in hell? There must be a deeper kind of inferno where these creatures should be punished!” The drug called “pain”, extracted from the actual tormenting of the damned souls and materialized into powder, is an object of addiction among these royalties. The whole idea is genius, contributing greatly in the gradual world-building of this series.
Like its preceding compilation it has a lot going on: Ellain Belloc, the archangel Michael’s offspring with a human, goes to Effrul in attempts to find the spirit of her friend Mona; Mazikeen seeks the help of her kin, the Lilim, when Lucifer refuses to restore her face; Lady Lys, a royalty in Effrul, takes a damned lover to satisfy her needs only to get unexpected results; and Lucifer folds the gateways of his universe in space and time after God announces that no one else can make another version of the Creation.
The action is already at its full-swing, and I’m expecting the plot to thicken some more in the next volumes. I admit that some issues are dropping a notch when the antihero is not present, and this is maybe because the other characters where the spotlight is shining on are not as interesting as the Fallen One himself. With the remarkable storylines of each issue, though, I guess that could be forgiven. Risque parts are to be expected, what with the nature of the majority of this volume (hint: look at the title), and I'm giving a thumb up for the artists and writer for doing their jobs tastefully.
In general, this is a good page-turner. I’m stoked to read the next tome!
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