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 Lucifer: Devil in the Gateway - Mike Carey
Description: ISBN 1840232994 / Author: Mike Carey / Genre: Sci-Fi / Fantasy / From the twisted and endlessly innovative mind of fan favourite writer ... more  Lucifer: Devil in the Gateway - Mike Carey ... Warren Ellis (The Authority, Transmetropolitan) comes an all-new foray into other worlds, altered realities and warped planes of existence. Planetary: a mysterious organisation dedicated to unearthing the secret history of the planet. But what secrets lurk within their own shadowy walls? Who is the fourth man, the architect of the entire operation? Plagued by unexplained gaps in his own memory, our hero attempts to unwrap the enigma that is Planetary.Newest Review: ... for the reader’s allegiance. Each story has a cast of prominent characters, who may or may not return as the series ... more ... continues, and in the true Sandman spirit of attempted controversy and unwavering belief that progressive social statements are being made, the cast originates in troubled families, sexual deviations, jobs in the sex industry and angsty teenage goth girls with unrealised, repressed powers. Each story expands the Sandman continuity by introducing further figures from mythology, both based on cultural legends and entirely made-up, more often than not to act as an enemy for Lucifer to talk down to and eventually beat.
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Lucifer: Devil in the Gateway - Mike Carey: I Was God's Lamp-Lighter (1584 words)
by Frankingsteins - written on 14.11.07 (Very useful, 66 readings)
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Several years after Neil Gaiman’s influential comic series The Sandman ceased publication, its characters, settings and ideas continued to entertain readers as a profitable franchise of DC Comics’ Vertigo imprint. Probably the best conceived and executed of these spin-offs (some of which were pretty appalling) was the long-running ‘Lucifer,’ originally written by the talented Mike Carey to carry on directly from where Gaiman left the fallen angel and ex-ruler of Hell: wearing a snazzy suit and running a classy piano bar in Los Angeles, aided by his ever loyal half-faced assistant Mazikeen. ‘Devil in the Gateway’ is the first paperback anthology of Lucifer, ...
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