BOOK REVIEW
– MIKE CARE LUCIFER #4 THE DIVINE COMEDY 2002 Vertigo / DC
Fourth book in the post-Neil Gaiman Sandman, Lucifer series, with a cameo by Morpheus’s sister, Death. Lucifer’s own universe is run on very different terms than that of Heaven – his souls have total free will but they are denied the right to establish any form of religion. Heaven decides to seal off the kingdom at any price, and The Basano have tried without success to kill Lucifer Morningstar to take over his kingdom, but the has survived and the Basano return in a doomed attempt to finish their work as Lucifer finds unexpected allies working to bring him back to life and power.
There are great moments here, with the exiling of the Archangel Michael, a young angelic girl being pursued by demons and having to become a virtual ghost to survive, a centaur’s quest to provide a message for Lucifer, the two unburnt feathers that are the clue to his salvation, etc, but the fragmented narrative and the mostly absent central protagonist mar this addition to the series.
The title owes much to Dante, and draws on the Paradisio & Purgatorio books, but not the Inferno portion of the trilogy. The story is very much Carey’s own though.
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