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Lucifer, Vol. 2: Children and Monsters
| Title | Lucifer, Vol. 2: Children and Monsters |
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| Date | 2024-12-26 10:36:34 |
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| Link | Listen Read |
Desciption
From the pages of Neil Gaiman's multi award-winning Sandman series...Cast out of heaven, thrown down to rule in Hell, Lucifer Morningstar has resigned his post and abandoned his infernal kingdom for the mortal city of Los Angeles. But retirement means only opportunity for Lucifer's many and varied enemies, all of whom have bitter and long memories, and it's going to take more than quick wits to survive the coming storm. As Lucifer bids to reclaim his lost wings, so his mortal vulnerability is revealed, and from the grim tapestry of his past the agents of chaos gather, ready to feast on his damned soul!This volume contains:Lucifer #5–13
Review
This volume has two storylines in it and is a bit longer than volume 1. The first part is The House of Windowless rooms, which I love for a couple of reasons. First, I love how this series seamlessly blends all different types of mythology together and how there are many different gods and pantheons and afterlives and it's cool to get our first real glimpse of that here. Second, I just love when people underestimate Lucifer - either because he is temporarily powerless for some reason or because they're just that fucking stupid - because it always means they are going to get their asses handed to them in the best and most satisfying way. The second storyline is Children and Monsters, and it really starts setting up the plot that will carry us through the entire series. It continues with Elaine's story and also introduces Michael and some great one-off characters. I like how there's always like 2 or 3 simultaneous threads going at once because it keeps things interesting and really shows how well planned out this series is right from the start. If it was just all about Lucifer all the time I think it would get old pretty fast no matter how amazing he is, but fortunately this series has a really great extended cast. Even characters that are only there for an issue or two feel like real well-rounded characters and stick with you after you've finished reading.Continuing my documentation of every place that 'will' is talked about, a few less than last time but still very much present in the overarching plot:And on my fifth reread I actually caught one that I missed last time so have that as well:I figured fate is kind of like ...I don't know, the antithesis of free will most of the time I guess, although Lucifer has certainly turned that around to serve his purposes instead:I just really like this page:This I love because Jill pretty much just breaks down all of his character flaws in one sentence and he's just like 'yeah, what about it?'. At least he's self-aware lolAnd then this is one of my favorite quotes from this series, and also very indicative of things to come:Really love this as well, since that's exactly what he ends up doing!Lucifer @ Michael: Don't you ever get tired of being nice, don't you just want to go completely batshit?
