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Lucifer, Book 11: Evensong
by: Mike Carey

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 741
EAN: 9781401212001
ISBN: 140121200X
Label: Vertigo
Manufacturer: Vertigo
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 216
Publication Date: January 24, 2007
Publisher: Vertigo
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Sales Rank: 58904
Studio: Vertigo

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From the pages of Neil Gaiman's THE SANDMAN comes the story of Lucifer Morningstar, the former Lord of Hell who is unexpectedly called back into action after he receives a mission from Heaven.

In this final volume, the war is over and a new order is rising from the ashes. His own fate now decided, Lucifer begins to settle his affairs -- only to discover that he still has one deadly enemy unaccounted for.

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- The final volume of one of the best stories ever.
The Lucifer series is for serious readers. Please note that I said serious READERS, not comic fans. Even if you've never read a Superman or Spider-Man comic, consider this series. It's intelligent, entertaining, thought-provoking, philosophical, emotionally charged, powerfully written and drawn, and overall one of the finest miniseries ever set to paper. When I rank my list of All-Time Best Miniseries or Series, it's a short list: Watchmen, Kingdom Come, Lucifer, and Seven Soldiers of Victory (the Grant Morrison version). Yes, Lucifer is that good. It might even be better than Watchmen. This particular volume, number eleven in the series of collected issues, is the final volume. As such there's a sad quality to it, but it ends on a perfect note. All our favorite characters return, things are wrapped up, and a very fitting finale awaits this book's reader. When I finished it the first time, my immediate ... Read More

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- On Lucifer 11
Excellent wrap-up of a fine series of graphic novels on the theme of God and Lucifer. The treatment is deep enough to interest philosphers and theologians.

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- Excellent ending, irritating coda
This wraps up most of the loose ends in the "Lucifer" series in a satisfactory way. The open-ended nature of Lucifer's fate is appropriate and suitable, and the mood and method of his final parting from his father Yahweh is ...hmm, properly consistent with his character; so is his farewell gift to Mazikeen. Elaine's choice of immanence rather than transcendance as her path of Godhead is well-justified and portrayed.

Unfortunately, the pretty but meretricious separate episode "Nirvana", which is a sort of filler to the whole thing, spoils the mood. This piece of orientalist trash should have been mercifully forgotten, rather than resurrected here. Surely it would not have hurt Carey to have actually talked to a few Buddhists to find out what Nirvana is actually conceived to be, rather than inflicting his own ignorance on his readers.

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- That's all, folks...
The Lucifer series is over. And if you know Mike Carey, when he finishes something, he likes to make sure nobody can ever pick it up again. In a word, this really is it.
I'd like to start off by saying a few words about the entire series. Lucifer is easily one of the best comic series Vertigo has ever produced, in part because Mike Carey is one of the best writers I have ever had the pleasure to know. I place him on a level with Gaiman in terms of inventing characters and settings that have never been used before, and utterly without peer for keeping his plot threads tightly wound. More than once I have stood in awe of the way he manages to pull things back together for a startling climax.
Evensong has many things in common with the last book of the Sandman series, The Wake, in that it occurs after all the action has taken place, and exists mainly to wrap things up. Therefor, it should not be surprising ... Read More

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