3.5I enjoyed it as much as the first volume, yet it took me ages to finish it and I hateeee that.

Lucifer in mortal peril, among a pack of deceitful and clever Japanese gods? Yes, I think this is what's required to give us a sense that our anti-hero is actually in enough danger to make the read worthwhile.And even better, while Lucifer has abandoned his HQ with a tempting target, all manner of threatening folk come skulking about to take it over? Hmm, maybe Carey was just having a little first-book jitters in the last volume and now he's finally found his feet.As the first storyline comes ne...

Oof, much better than Vol.1.

I liked this volume better than the first one, though I'm still not a big fan of the series yet. The individual storylines didn't feel terribly complete in and of themselves. (Is there a word for the books within the books that they do in comics? Like how this one had The House of Windowless Rooms and Children and Monsters.) But I finally started to get a sense of where the overall story arc is going, or at least that it's going somewhere, and it's intriguing me a bit more. Enough that I do want...

Contains the arcs: The House of Windowless Rooms + Children and Monsters.The House of Windowless Rooms:Lucifer hasn’t really been challenged in the previous arcs thus far, so to see him at a physical disandvantage and having to use his guile and cunning to outwit his enemies at each turn is very absorbing. Seeing more of Mazikeen and Jill and learning more about their powers was fun.Children and Monsters:Another fantastic arc. Mike Carey takes the flavour of Sandman, adds a dash of treachery and...

I really thought this was much better than the first volume. The set-up and exposition of the first trade give way to the face-off between Lucifer and the hosts of heaven in this one. The storylines which are established in the previous collection are picked up and continued with here, with the writers managing to interweave them all with skill and lucidity.The often surprising nature of the storylines in Sandman are continued in its spin-off, as well; I don't think anyone would have been ready

Now that Carey's gotten the (re)introductions out of the way in Devil in the Gateway, his Lucifer is free to fly - or he will be, once he reclaims his wings from the Japanese goddess of death. That premise alone holds more excitement than the first third of the series's initial volume, and Carey follows it up with a duel with poisoned blades, a giant carnivorous spirit baby, and a full-scale invasion by the heavenly host. Presiding over all the mayhem with a look that might be a sneer if he actu...

Re-read 21-06-2103Good Story - Average ArtThe first one with the Bolton art was better, but still, the story makes it a worthwhile read.« Picking up where LUCIFER: DEVIL IN THE GATEWAY ends, this trade paperback has Lucifer continuing his plans for a new revolution as he attempts to reclaim his wings from a hell not his own. And as this mission ends, Heaven, Hell and Earth all quickly feel the repercussions. Suddenly old enemies and allies such as the cabaret star Jill Presto, the hybrid angel E...

Something I forgot to mention in my review of book one that bears note. This series does a masterful job of interweaving mythologies. In just the first couple books, you get Judeo-Christian, Navajo, Sumerian, Japanese, Norse.... If you're a mythology geek like me, it's lovely. It's everything I love woven into something new and strange and lovely.

When a spark of plan ignites in the mind of God’s former lamplighter, there’s nothing that can stop him from incinerating it to action. That’s what’s proven in the second volume of Mike Carey’s The Sandman spin-off, Lucifer: Children and Monsters.After coercing the Basanos (a magical deck of tarot cards created by the angel Meleos) to give him a reading, Lucifer moves to execute a clandestine scheme. Heaven has given him a “letter of passage”, the payment for his last cleanup job in Devil in the...

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

The House of Windowless RoomsThis is where all the cool gods and foreign dimensions begin to come in that make this series so interesting. As we see here, underestimate Lucifer at your regret, even when he's at his most vulnerable. I love how manipulative Lucifer is. We also get to see what's behind Mazikeen's mask.Children and MonstersThis is where Carey really begins to set up the story that will carry through the end of the series. Carey is excellent at planning ahead and building stories ato...

I think I liked this trade paperback even more than the first. So much imagination went into making this--the Japanese underworld is a good example, I really loved that as a setting. Musubi was an especially fun character from that realm.There were a lot of plot threads going on here, and I actually liked how much and how abruptly the stories switched, it kept things interesting. The entire trade was sitting-on-the-edge-of-your-seat enthralling.The main criticism I have is that some of the major...

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3.5 starsLucifer carefully and cleverly prepares for an assualt from the Heavens.This is the last volume of the Lucifer I'm going to read. I really enjoyed this book, it just has its limitations. There are no real stakes, Lucifer as a character is ambigiously neither good nor evil, the outcome is a given from the start and the rules are made up along the way.On the plus side, it is a well crafted story that builds nicely. The plot is interesting, the artwork is varied and great, the world it is

Loved this arc of the story. The pace is brilliant and the stakes are super high! Probably the best one so far in the series!

It's Book 2 and things are really starting to heat up for Lucifer in this one: as he places his pieces on the board, other forces position themselves to get what they want from the Morningstar - one way or another. I've started this right after completing the Sandman series - the amazing comic book series penned by Neil Gaiman, and from which our main character is from; to be perfectly honest, when I began I was not sure if this series would be able to meet my expectations set by the Lord of Dre...

Actual sore: 4,25This is the first Lucifer comic I read, finding it at the store and being SO EXCITED to find something that appeared to feature my favourite character from Sandman. (I did read Sandman out of sequence as well, and while it fuddled the plot somewhat, I never actually found it to be confusing - or to lessen my enjoyment of the comic.) I loved it then, I love it still, but the first arc is one of the Lucifer stories I enjoy the least (The House of Windowless Rooms). Bit too gory, a...

oh boy, Lucifer you winged bastard, well played.

I read the first Lucifer tpb quite a while back; it didn't do too much for me either way. It didn't seem to be much beyond the rather cutesy premise of making Lucifer and Mazikeen open a nightclub in LA. This volumes seems a lot more epic, cosmic even, and I do like my horror-oriented narratives to have a cosmic touch. Carey begins building his own universe for real here, even if he uses loads of elements from Gaiman's. In fact, considering what happens by Volume 3 it's tempting to think that Ca...