LUCIFER MORNINGSTAR. Most of us know him as the Prince of Hell, formerly the angel Samael, proud Lightbringer of the Heavens. But you might as well include the first title as a thing of the past, because apparently Lucifer has resigned. Yes, folks, you heard that right: he’s quit.That's at least according to the canon of Gaiman’s phenomenal graphic novel series, The Sandman. Establishing a continuity with Gaiman’s modern interpretation of the Devil, Mike Carrey crafts this spin-off following Luc...

I really truly enjoy Mike Carey's works... I just found this so boring! Which is guess is consistent, since I found Preludes & Nocturnes boring too...I don't know what I'm missing here, but everything read flat for me. And I know Mike Cary can plot out excitement and write complex characters from having loved The Unwritten, Vol. 1: Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity and The Girl With All The Gifts, but this just didn't do it for me. Oh well.

The art in the first half has a very painterly look to it - as if it's all been coloured in watercolour paint - which adds an airy, breezy quality to the pages. Which is a fascinating counterpoint to the menace that lies just beneath the surface of the interactions between characters.The actual questing and action are almost beside the point in this book - or at least for me, they're not terribly compelling, compared with the mythology of heaven, hell, the world and humanity that Carey teases ou...

If you've read Sandman and are looking for more, this is a good place to start. It picks up with Lucifer running a nightclub in L.A. when he's asked to do a favor for heaven. I like that even though this spins out of Sandman, Carey quickly establishes his own mythology and characters. His Lucifer is cutthroat and conniving and yet, it's easy to think he's looking out for you. Like Sandman, Lucifer isn't always the star of each story, sometimes only playing a minor character.Scott Hampton's art i...

This a very bold thing to say, but I adore this volume more than any of the Sandman volumes. That isn’t a bash against Gaian, that’s a testament to what Carey does here.

Lucifer, Vol. 1 is not the best graphic novel I've read in the last year or so and not the worst. The artwork and production are, as one would expect from Vertigo, top notch. The stories included are good, but nothing like the other stuff I've been lucky enough to encounter in the last few months. Lucifer as a character - well, it's complicated, but not complicated enough to compel me to read the whole series. Still, there's a lot of potential for the retired prince of Hell. At times, I found hi...

Very promising startGaiman's work have tons of his weirdness and charm and it's hard to write spin-off to his series and not look pale in comparison but so far it seems that Lucifer has potential to be as good if not better than Sandman.Illustrator manages to maintain similar style to Sandman but with more detailed illustrations.I think that this is how Sandman series should have looked. This doesn't apply to last issue in this volume who's illustrations are just as bad as Sandman at it's worst....

F me this comic is WORDY. And the fonts are utter bullshit. Not sure it has aged particularly well, either. Determined to get through the whole run though 💪

Will I like this more than the Sandman? That remains to be seen as Neil Gaiman sort of has my heart, but it was a solid and interesting start. I'm excited to continue, though, I will admit, my knowledge of religion is very minimal so my dumbass self is probably missing a lot.Shoutout to my high school English teacher for gifting me the entire series. Sorry that I'm only just reading them now. You're the best!

One of my favorite comic series, and I've read it at least 2-3 times before this, so I'm rather surprised that I haven't made some comment about it here on Goodreads yet. I think this is probably my favorite comic work by Mike Carey, which is saying quite a bit, as he's also done Crossing Midnight and unwritten. The tone of the series is very similar to Sandman. I don't mean that in any derogatory or derivative way. (Though I have a hard time imagining how a comparison to Sandman could be deroga...

man i am so glad i read this now and not ten years agoten years ago i would've known that this series is well liked and highly acclaimed and i would've picked up the next volume because it's supposed to be good right? and the library has it! i cannot waste this comics opportunityhappily i am now old and curmedgeonly enough to know that life is too short to read things i don't like. unless the rest of the series features an abrupt tonal shift -- and feel free to tell me if it does! -- i care far

Hits the ground running. A good start and getting stronger and more intriguing every time I turn the page. Lucifer is far more devilish than I could have imagined.

I think my major gripe was the inconsistency. I wish writers would not throw in some new rule right when a character needs the change. You create a world, stick to your own rules. Creativity is great but attempt some type of reasoning or smoothness. Otherwise, I liked this, holds a lot of promise. Lucifer is an extremely interesting character.

I recently reread Sandman, and while I do love it for its own sake, I must confess that my real reason for trekking through Gaiman's epic was to get to Carey's equally majestic, albeit much-less praised, story. Frankly, I'm not sure why that is, as in many ways, I think Lucifer surpasses its origin story. Both boast rich, and mostly independent cosmologies, but whereas for a significant part of its run, Sandman exists as a framework for Gaiman to write any kind of story he wants, Lucifer is surp...

I keep picking this up and reading it again because I forgot that I had already read it. Now it is on my read list.

It wasn't the beginning I was expecting (but it's by Mike Carey and I hope it gets better and better).

Mike Carey’s Lucifer is even more manipulative, charming, and dangerous than I could have hoped. The supporting cast are real people, living and dead, in a real world. - Neil GaimanOnce upon a time [about thirteen or so years ago] I was slowly making my way through the Sandman series when I learned about the Lucifer spin-off and promptly put Sandman down to run off to read Lucifer instead and I've been pretty much obsessed with it ever since. I did FINALLY read all of Sandman a few years ago but...

**30 Books in 30 Days**Book 22/30I liked this, but I'm having trouble remembering what happened in it, and I only read it two or three days ago. I also haven't quite yet caught what this story is *about*. Lucifer was one of my favorite parts of Sandman. What he did in that series was so audacious, it delighted me. I wanted to see how Mike Carey (and Peter Gross) would follow that up. This volume hasn't really answered that for me yet, and so far at least, Lucifer is less clear as a character tha...

Wordy and info dumpy in a not good way.World: The art is solid, it’s not the best type of the era and the framing is fairly standard but it does it’s job. The world building is solid too as it continues the story that we saw in Sandman and we get to see the little piece of the world that Gaiman has created for Lucifer. The magic stuff is done well and pretty representative of the era of comics that this book is from.Story: There are two stories here and a single issue and for the most part they

Easily the best part of the Extended Sandman Universe, the Lucifer story is coherent, paced really well, and a delight to watch unfold.Many writers of this era have a giant plot idea and set everything up as a set of quests to reach that plot. Carey has several different stories to tell that end up creating a large tapestry. By the end, the full run feels more like focused than Neil Gaiman's Sandman, but it's actually just very effective at pulling off the same tricks.If you loved Gaiman's Sandm...