'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title. Despite himself, Lucifer agrees, embarking on a journey that will take him back. Heaven, forbidden to intervene directly, asks Lucifer to investigate and trace this mysterious power to its source. Carey has a lot of irreverent fun with his mythological sources-in an early scene, Proteus murders kindly old Baucis and Philemon, who were turned into trees for their piety-and if the result doesn't quite have the scope of Attic tragedy, it does satisfyingly wrap up some of Gaiman's unresolved plot lines.Ĭopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. A magical force begins granting wishes to ordinary mortals, with sinister and unpredictable results. This time, though, he seems to have represented most of the characters by heavily manipulated photographs, treated to appear in a 'painterly' style that blends in with his purely fantastic images. In the Sandman when Lucifer asked to Cain if the latter knew who was the Cainites, part of a Gnostic belief system in which the Universe was created by a Demiurge figure. John Bolton, known for his painted comics, provides the art. She ends up traveling through Hades, questioning the sort of vengeance her ancestors prized, and ultimately learning the fate of her bloodline. Lyta Hall, a former superheroine (and half-Fury) whose life has been shattered by the loss of her infant son, gets involved with an American theater group in Athens at the same time as the Greek gods decide to use her as a pawn in their internecine war. (Both titles, in fact, refer to the Eumenides from Greek mythology.) Those who haven't read Gaiman's book will likely be baffled by a few significant plot twists in this one. This tale is a sequel to Gaiman's Sandman book The Kindly Ones. If there's an heir to the comics writing tradition of Neil Gaiman's Sandman, it's Carey, who currently writes the spinoff series Lucifer and peppers his stories with Gaiman's brand of clever, learned theology. John Bolton is the artist of Harlequin Valentine (with Sandman creator Neil Gaiman), and also painted one of the original Books of Magic series. Faustus, and the Petrefax mini-series, and is the ongoing writer of Lucifer and Hellblazer.

The Sandman Presents by Mike Carey