Lucifer TP Vol 2

Blacks lucifer is not quite Careys yet. but I think it just needs time, just as the originals took a while to get their stride, will be sticking with them

Awesome collection that ties to the other first series I collected. A good story with clever twists

The story of Lucifer continues, and this is every bit as good as volume 1. May it continue in this way!

Very silly.

DC and Vertigo are rebooting what appears to be pretty much everything in their catalogues, which is fine by me. And Lucifer strikes me as among the titles most worthy of being rebooted. Everyone liked Gaiman's Lucifer and loved Mike Carey's 75 issue Lucifer, but he's just such a great character, surrounded such a great cast, that I'm of the mind that there's always room for more.Volume 1 collected the first six issues of the new Holly Black "Lucifer". This Volume 2 collects issues 7 through 12. Volume 1 struck me as a Lucifer/Gabriel buddy-cop sort of tale, (of course with lots of digressions and shout outs), but this Volume 2 feels more like a "Game of Thrones" kind of tale, with a huge cast of characters, and loads of conniving, scheming, back stabbing, deicide, patricide, sibling rivalry, cousin-icide, and demon bashing.I don't know why, when they revisit a character who has a long publication history and backstory, they don't offer readers a two or three page synopsis and character list. (Heck, "War and Peace" opens with a list of characters.) If you are new to Lucifer, or if you don't remember the original, you might want to wander to the DC website or even to Wikipedia to refresh your memory of who Mazikeen and Elaine are, and maybe even how Lucifer ended up in L.A., and why the underlying theme here is predetermination versus free will. Or, of course, you can just jump right in and piece everything together with a little selective re-reading and backtracking.Because I'm a little obsessive I did have to figure out some of the really obscure references, (Boy Detectives anyone?), but these volumes are fun even if you let go and just read them for the snappy patter and Lucifer's snarky, deadpan, ironic throwaway lines. In that regard, Holly Black also hands out some excellent dialogue to the rest of the cast, including even incidental characters, so this isn't by any means a one-man show.Bottom line, I thought this was fun, well-written, reasonably coherent, and hip without being insufferably angsty. A nice effort. (Please note that I received a free advance will-self-destruct-in-x-days Adobe Digital copy of this book without a review requirement, or any influence regarding review content should I choose to post a review. Apart from that I have no connection at all to either the author or the publisher of this book.)

DC and Vertigo are rebooting what appears to be pretty much everything in their catalogues, which is fine by me. And Lucifer strikes me as among the titles most worthy of being rebooted. Everyone liked Gaiman's Lucifer and loved Mike Carey's 75 issue Lucifer, but he's just such a great character, surrounded such a great cast, that I'm of the mind that there's always room for more.Volume 1 collected the first six issues of the new Holly Black "Lucifer". This Volume 2 collects issues 7 through 12. Volume 1 struck me as a Lucifer/Gabriel buddy-cop sort of tale, (of course with lots of digressions and shout outs), but this Volume 2 feels more like a "Game of Thrones" kind of tale, with a huge cast of characters, and loads of conniving, scheming, back stabbing, deicide, patricide, sibling rivalry, cousin-icide, and demon bashing.I don't know why, when they revisit a character who has a long publication history and backstory, they don't offer readers a two or three page synopsis and character list. (Heck, "War and Peace" opens with a list of characters.) If you are new to Lucifer, or if you don't remember the original, you might want to wander to the DC website or even to Wikipedia to refresh your memory of who Mazikeen and Elaine are, and maybe even how Lucifer ended up in L.A., and why the underlying theme here is predetermination versus free will. Or, of course, you can just jump right in and piece everything together with a little selective re-reading and backtracking.Because I'm a little obsessive I did have to figure out some of the really obscure references, (Boy Detectives anyone?), but these volumes are fun even if you let go and just read them for the snappy patter and Lucifer's snarky, deadpan, ironic throwaway lines. In that regard, Holly Black also hands out some excellent dialogue to the rest of the cast, including even incidental characters, so this isn't by any means a one-man show.Bottom line, I thought this was fun, well-written, reasonably coherent, and hip without being insufferably angsty. A nice effort. (Please note that I received a free advance will-self-destruct-in-x-days Adobe Digital copy of this book without a review requirement, or any influence regarding review content should I choose to post a review. Apart from that I have no connection at all to either the author or the publisher of this book.)

Lucifer TP Vol 2 (Lucifer (Vertigo))  collects issues #7-12 of this new series, which, as it turns out, really is a continuation of the original Vertigo series, as we discover when the Narrator of the series is revealed to us.We also discover that there is a great deal more discord in Heaven than we expected, God is not dead, but “just resting“, and that there was considerably more going on last issue than we thought, as everybody, including his son, brother, sister and uncle come out of the woodwork to bedevil (pun intended) Lucifer.The first volume of this series was good, but this one is excellent, and the plot (pun intended) is firing on all cylinders.This really feels like the Lucifer (series) of old come back again (but having advanced a bit in the years since), though I would recommend reading the first volume of this one (again) before getting into this one, as you really need to remember who is who and what they are up to.