ISBN: 9781563898006
Price: $14.99
Publisher/Year: Vertigo, 2001
Artist: Peter Gross, Ryan Kelly, Dean Ormston
Writer: Mike Carey
Collects: Lucifer #5-13
Rating: 2/5
The second book in Lucifer's saga takes him to Izanami, an
eastern death goddess and an afterworld very different from his own. The Fallen
One seeks to reclaim his wings, severed from his back when he relinquished Hell
and now reposing in a dusty collection of symbols and icons. But there are
challenges that must be faced and conquered before he gains his prize, and the
gods of that place are not eager to see the treasured wings taken.
Meanwhile, Lucifer's lover, the half-faced demon Mazikeen,
is left to guard his Los Angeles nightclub and, more importantly, the mystical
gate to the Void that Lucifer has opened. The gate is a great power, and it
draws the attention of infernal and blessed beings from many plains who wish to
steal it. (British bad boy John Constantine even makes a brief cameo here, but
only as an amused observer.)
There are several cameo and guest appearances of interest in
this volume, including a tarot-ridden sorceress, an angry seraph, a young ward
of dead witches, a murdered schoolgirl's ghost, a maker of half-angels and a
former handmaiden to gods who has miscarried every morning for 4,000 years. (If
you want to see rage and destruction unleashed, imagine the spirit of an unborn
fetus that's been miscarried more than a million times.)
The story is good, the art is alright, but my biggest issue is with the lettering of all things. I know that Vertigo wants to maintain a certain feel with this series, and I applaud the attempt. I sincerely wish that they would use better fonts so I would be able to clearly read the story and enjoy it for what it's worth. Because of this lone fact, I haven't given the Lucifer series much interest. It simply doesn't keep my attention or draw me in.
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