Lucifer

The Wild Hunt

Paperback, 144 pages

English language

Published Oct. 28, 2020 by DC Comics.

ISBN:
978-1-77950-235-3
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4 stars (2 reviews)

Lucifer, the prince of darkness, finds himself directly in the crosshairs of a cosmic hunting party.

Lucifer, the prince of darkness, is playing house. The devil arrives in the village of Haybury, West Yorkshire, with designs on building a quaint new life for himself. Unfortunately for Lucifer, the universe has other plans for him, as he finds himself directly in the crosshairs of a cosmic hunting party.

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reviewed Lucifer by Dan Watters (Lucifer (2018) #3)

Review of 'Lucifer' on 'Storygraph'

3 stars

This anthology of stories started taking place years after the first "Sandman" series came to an end. After that, Leslie S. Klinger annotated them, which allowed a lot of Neil Gaiman's original ruminations to be explained and clarified.

History now moves on. Aided by raven Matthew, we are guided through worlds where the Prince of Sleep is, seemingly, missing, or even escaped.

Through a barrage of well-known entities, we see the Universe unfurl through large and very colourful representations of both Earth, The Dreaming, and other places.

Gaiman's style is the same as before, as is his imagination. The only thing that is remarkably lacking from this anthology is plot, which is lacklustre. I've always thought Gaiman to be an extraordinary storyteller, but where he goes on a downward trajectory he falls quickly; this is, sadly, the case here. The stories don't hold up to their usual standard and the …

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