Love the tv show! Love the graphic novel! What else can I say?

The first arc in this volume, "Triptych", was actually pretty good. But then, sadly, it all went to hell (literally). And I have to give Mike Carey some credit here, not every writer can write hell in such a boring way. Basically all that happens there is some murderer gets to boink a babe with huge knockers for a couple of issues, and then there is a party. I'm not even joking.Lucifer is very badly written. The dialogue is so stale and so lifeless, the book actually feels much more dated than S...

This volume of everybody's favourite anti-hero contains three apparently unrelated triptychs, a story of what's going on in Hell and a short after-story where Michael confronts Lucifer again.This volume didn't really do an awful lot for me. The three triptychs were interesting, the first being being Mazikeen's story of trying to "fix" her face. After being an almost-illegible face in a mask for two volumes, it's nice to see her get fleshed out a bit, and her story is taken up again in the final

“Must I Sin once... and repent forever?” Existential musings in a comic about the devil... who’d have thought? Mike Carey is a genius. Really enjoying this.A lot happens in this book plot wise. Mazikeen becomes leader of the Lilim, Elaine learns more about her powers and meets Duma, Lucifer does his own rendition of Adam and Eve, a man who has spent centuries in hell thwarts a conspiracy and shows a hedonistic demon (who collects ad revels in the pain of the souls being tortured) what pain reall...

Norman Mailer once said that The Sandman series by Neil Gaiman is a “comic book for intellectuals”. If ever he’d read the Lucifer graphic novels by Mike Carey, I bet he’d say the same comment about it.A Dalliance with the Damned is the third volume that chronicles the adventures of the Lightbringer from the pages of The Sandman, Lucifer Morningstar. For the majority of this tome, the dashing devil takes the backseat while the readers are “toured” further in Carey’s well-crafted universe and deep...

Mazikeen goes looking for a new face, Elaine goes looking for her ghost friend Mona, and Lucifer goes looking for trouble in Effrul in this third trade collection. As a series, LUCIFER just keeps getting better and better. Mike Carey has written something really special.

Triptych is a great arc. I like how each issue focuses on one of our main characters Elaine Belloc, Mazikeen, and Lucifer, advancing each of their stories. A Dalliance with the Damned is much less interesting. Seeing a bunch of demons try and mimic the royalty of medieval Europe was ultimately just as boring as the time period they were mimicking.The Thunder Sermon is one of my favorite issues so far. It's such a great ending to this story. It really sums up Lucifer in a nutshell.

Fantastic series. If it continues like this it’ll be in my top 10 easily

Most of the book was about characters I didn't care about at all doing things that I didn't care about at all. It wasn't intriguing or enjoyable. I don't understand what Carey was doing with this one. I've had very hard time with this series, I'm still not seeing the appeal. There are high points but they're few and far between. But I can get the books from the library so I might get the next one someday.

Every time I see that there is a section illustrated by Dean Ormston I feel a little annoyed and disgusted like I have to walk barefoot through grass where I know there are snails. There was a lot of him in this trade paperback.I'm glad Mazikeen has her whole face now so that I don't have to guess at her gibberish (although she's not too happy about having flesh covering her entire skull).I liked the bit with Elaine traveling through different realms, felt very Alice-in-Wonderland-y.I think I en...

Very gripping. some twisted little side plots, all sorts of intrigue in hell, and an awesome chance for Lucifer to play out a new take on the garden of Eden story. Also, everyone wants a piece of Lucifer's new Creation so things seem to be working towards a Season Of Mists sort of scenario. I'm not sure how I feel about that - Season Of Mists was stunning in concept and execution - right up until the too-easy resolution. I hope Carey takes this in a different direction, and Lucifer's seeming dis...

things are getting intense and I'm rEADY for it.

Unfortunately, this is going to be less a review and more of a highlights. So, without further adieu (since I still have Volume 4 to read and it's due back at the library tomorrow):Lucifer as God; Angels as DemonsStill enjoying the inversion that's going on here. Lucifer makes his realm and his only command is Bow down to no one. Worship no one. Not even me. Do you understand?So beautiful.And then of course one of the angels comes to the man in the form of a serpent, inspiring doubt in the man's...

Every time I reread this I struggle between 4 and 5 stars because while I absolutely adore Tryptic and The Thunder Sermon, A Dalliance with the Damned does get rather boring at times [at least the first two issues of it where Lucifer isn't there]. But I realized that despite not really liking 2 issues in this volume, the rest of it has some of my favorite story lines and quotes from the whole series so let's just call it a 4.5 rounded up.I love how we get to see Lucifer creating his own universe...

Interlude that is detached a little bit from the story so far. Definitely shows more characters and set ups the future plot. Yay, for the next one!

This is an incredibly dark book but masterfully done. This is technically a re-read but I'd forgotten enough that it was as delightful a re-read as the initial read was. Michael reports that God is gone and Lucifer returns his niece and her friend to life in another universe where they are unworshipped gods. Lucifer is not cruel, but he is precise and it is delightful to see him with Elaine and her friend. I just love this series so much.

Fantastic. The faux-historical setting of Effrul and the demons playacting at being human has always been a favourite of mine, complete with the archaic diction and Christopher and Lys's story, which somehow manages to be both a hilarious riff on the fake period style and a uniquely painful tangle of desire and betrayal. I also love how Mazikeen is starting to emancipate herself. And Peter Gross's art is just perfect for Lucifer, all clean and sharp and elegant as the man himself.

At this point I'm completely enthralled with this series. Every detail in every storyline is so perfect, every character so thoroughly imagined (even ones that get killed off almost immediately), that you feel a total understanding for this completely alien world Mike Carey has created. In this volume we get Lucifer's selfish take on Creation, a bunch of demons who behave like 1800s English nobility, and a look into the incredibly twisted, inhuman world Lucifer surrounds himself with. As with pr...

"After all, any prototype that can't resist the old celestial party line isn't worth the effort of mass production, is it?"Lucifer mocks the message from God as a " celestial party line" and I can't agree more! Even in his failure he succeeded!Pater noster, qui es in caelis, sanctificetur nomen tuum. Adveniat regnum tuum. Fiat voluntas tua!

I'll confess that I don't particularly care about Christopher Rudd and his adventures in Hell. For me, at least, it's the low point of the series, as there's just so little at stake watching a bunch of demons stabbing each other in the back.It's a shame too, because this volume really gives Mazikeen a chance to shine, and it also contains Lucifer's first attempt at creation. And what a great idea that is. Lucifer, as a character, has always been opposed to God, but how often has he actually been...