Lucifer

Format:

Book

Title:

Lucifer

Author:

Watters, Dan writer

ISBN:

9781401291334

9781401295721

9781779502353

9781779507556

Publication:

Burbank, CA : DC Comics, [2019]-

Physical Description:

volumes : color illustrations ; 26 cm

Number in series:

VOL. 1

General Note:

"Lucifer based on characters created by Neil Gaiman, Sam Keith, and Mike Dringenberg - The Sandman created by Neil Gaiman, Sam Keith, and Mike Dringenberg - The Sandman Universe curated by Neil Gaiman."

Volume 1: "Originally published in single magazine form as THE SANDMAN UNIVERSE 1 and LUCIFER 1-6"--Title page verso

Contents:

v. 1. The infernal comedy -- v. 2. The divine tragedy -- v. 3. The wild hunt -- v. 4. The devil at heart.

Summary:

"The onetime ruler of Hell has gone missing. Lucifer is MIA. He finds himself imprisoned and crippled by mysterious forces who seek to torment him for their own terrible ends. He also happens to have no idea how he got there. This is the one true tale of what befell the Prince of Lies, the Bringer of Light--Lucifer. The blind, destitute old man, who lives in a small boarding house in a quiet little town, where nothing is quite what it seems and no one can leave. He's trapped, you see? Trapped in a bizarre prison with no memory of how he got there or why. As the Devil soon discovers, the answers lay in wait with his estranged son, Caliban ... too bad Lucifer can't find him. Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, Detective John Decker is drawn into a shadowy conspiracy whose widely varied members share a single common purpose: to kill Lucifer Morningstar."-- Provided by publisher

Reading Level:

Mature readers.

Subject(s):

Devil -- Comic books, strips, etc.

Genre:

comic strips.

comic books.

Comics (Graphic works)

Added Author:

Holds:

Available:*

Library	Call Number	Status
Searching... Stayton Public Library	GN WATTERS Dan	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Salem Main Library	GRAPHIC Watters, D. v.1	Searching... Unknown

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Summary

The Prince of Darkness is missing, and from the look of things he's not coming back. Blind, crippled, and without a penny to his name, the onetime ruler of Hell is now a wizened, unkempt old man trapped in a small town where sinister forces torment him at every turn and nothing is as it seems. He has no memory of how he got here, no hope of escape, and no way to track down his child--the only entity capable of preventing the end of the world.

At the same time, a police officer in Lucifer's adopted hometown of Los Angeles is about to lose everything he holds dear. Desperate to find a reason for his suffering, Detective John Decker is drawn into a shadowy conspiracy whose widely varied members share a single common purpose- to kill Lucifer Morningstar.

With monsters and magicians from every plane of reality set against him, can the Lightbringer heal his broken mind and body and regain his wrongful place in the cosmos?

Acclaimed author Dan Watters ( The Shadow , Deep Roots ) and the incredible art team of Max and Sebastian Fiumara ( All-Star Batman , The Amazing Spider-Man , Abe Sapien ) begin an all-new chapter in the saga of one of the Sandman Universe's most mesmerizing characters in Lucifer Vol. 1- The Infernal Comedy --from the mind of New York Times best-selling author Neil Gaiman!

Author Notes

Neil Gaiman was born in Portchester, England on November 10, 1960. He worked as a journalist and freelance writer for a time, before deciding to try his hand at comic books. Some of his work has appeared in publications such as Time Out, The Sunday Times, Punch, and The Observer. His first comic endeavor was the graphic novel series The Sandman. The series has won every major industry award including nine Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, three Harvey Awards, and the 1991 World Fantasy Award for best short story, making it the first comic ever to win a literary award.

He writes both children and adult books. His adult books include The Ocean at the End of the Lane, which won a British National Book Awards, and the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel for 2014; Stardust, which won the Mythopoeic Award as best novel for adults in 1999; American Gods, which won the Hugo, Nebula, Bram Stoker, SFX, and Locus awards; Anansi Boys; Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances; and The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction, which is a New York Times Bestseller. His children's books include The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish; Coraline, which won the Elizabeth Burr/Worzalla, the BSFA, the Hugo, the Nebula, and the Bram Stoker awards; The Wolves in the Walls; Odd and the Frost Giants; The Graveyard Book, which won the Newbery Award in 2009 and The Sandman: Overture which won the 2016 Hugo Awards Best Graphic Story.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (1)

Kirkus Review

There have been centuries of stories about Lucifer, and this graphic novel includes many of them.Lucifer was a recurring character in Gaiman's (The Dreaming Vol. 1, 2019, etc.) classic Sandman comics. But, of course, the devil has appeared everywhere from the Bible to Damn Yankees. The characters who show up in this collection include William Blake, figures from Shakespeare andfleetinglyRobert Johnson. Several of them are trapped with Lucifer in an inescapable prison, and he seems too far from sanity to help them. Readers who aren't familiar with all the allusionsnot to mention the previous comic bookswill be completely lost, especially when the story leaps backward and forward in time. They may keep reading, anyway, because the book is filled with haunting moments; in a scene that alludes to classical mythology, a group of witches pluck out and share a cat's eye. Unfortunately, numerous digressions sometimes make the story feel unnecessarily fragmented. The artwork is also beautifully disturbing, with frightening noir shadows and distorted anatomy that, on occasion, nearly turns the characters into abstract shapes. Lucifer and most of the cast are white, but some characters are black, and one has a white father and Algerian mother. A spectacular lesson in history and literature, but most people will need the CliffsNotes. (character sketches) (Graphic fantasy. 15-adult) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.