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Title | The Infernal Comedy
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Author | Dan Watters
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Illustrator | Max & Sebastian Fiumara
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Publisher | Vertigo - 2019
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First Printing | Vertigo - 2019
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Title | The Divine Tragedy
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Author | Dan Watters
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Illustrator | Max & Sebastian Fiumara, Kelly Jones
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Publisher | Vertigo - 2020
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First Printing | Vertigo - 2020
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Title | The Wild Hunt
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Illustrator | Dan Watters
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Cover Art | Max & Sebastian Fiumara, Fernando Blanco
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Publisher | Vertigo - 2020
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First Printing | Vertigo - 2020
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Title | The Devil at Heart
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Illustrator | Dan Watters
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Cover Art | Max & Sebastian Fiumara, Brian Level
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Publisher | Vertigo - 2021
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First Printing | Vertigo - 2021
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Category | Graphic Novel
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Warnings | ---
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Main Characters | Lucifer, Detective John Decker
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Main Elements | Gods, demons
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The Infernal Comedy
The Prince of Darkness is missing, and from the look of things he's not coming back. Blind, crippled, and without a penny to his name, the onetime ruler of Hell is now a wizened, unkempt old man trapped in a small town where sinister forces torment him at every turn and nothing is as it seems. He has no memory of how he got here, no hope of escape, and no way to track down his child--the only entity capable of preventing the end of the world.
At the same time, a police officer in Lucifer's adopted hometown of Los Angeles is about to lose everything he holds dear. Desperate to find a reason for his suffering, Detective John Decker is drawn into a shadowy conspiracy whose widely varied members share a single common purpose: to kill Lucifer Morningstar.
With monsters and magicians from every plane of reality set against him, can the Lightbringer heal his broken mind and body and regain his wrongful place in the cosmos?
Acclaimed author Dan Watters (The Shadow, Deep Roots) and the incredible art team of Max and Sebastian Fiumara (All-Star Batman, The Amazing Spider-Man, Abe Sapien) begin an all-new chapter in the saga of one of the Sandman Universe's most mesmerizing characters in Lucifer Vol. 1: The Infernal Comedy--from the mind of New York Times best-selling author Neil Gaiman!
The Divine Tragedy
God is angry. Lucifer has committed an unthinkable act of sacrilege, and now the forces of Heaven have left him with nowhere to turn but the lands of the dead.
Much has changed since Lucifer's last visit to his former kingdom. Meanwhile: a cherub appears in a motel room, a witch queen walks the Earth for the first time in millennia, and Mazikeen gets to break a finger or two. Plus, things in Hell are heating up with too many potential leaders as Mazikeen prepares to fend off a usurper with assistance from an unexpected ally. But with Heaven and Hell so engrossed in their own affairs, who's keeping track of what's happening on Earth?
The Wild Hunt
Simon Spurrier continues the stories of the characters from the award-winning The Sandman series by Neil Gaiman.
Lucifer, the prince of darkness, is playing house. The Devil arrives in the village of Haybury, West Yorkshire, with designs on building a quaint new life for himself. But when an uninvited guest by the name of John Constantine crashes the party, all hell breaks loose. Then, "The Wild Hunt" begins as Lucifer must discover the identity of the Hunted God. It's a mythic quest led by one of the most dangerous entities in Odin himself. Collects Lucifer #14-19.
The Devil at Heart
At long last, the Devil is going to Hell.
Still reeling in the aftermath of the Wild Hunt, the Lightbringer travels to the land of the dead and damned—but it’s hardly the only stop on his itinerary. Although he is immortal, there are other beings out there who are Endless—and Lucifer is prepared to trespass against them in order to get what he wants.
It is to the gardens of Destiny, elder brother of Dream, that Lucifer must finally go. And the consequences of his journey are so reality-shaking that not even Destiny himself can foresee the consequences.
The stage is set for the final step in Lucifer’s reemergence from the shadows into the light of the future…but will he be there to see it?
Find out in Lucifer Vol. 4: The Devil at Heart, the stunning conclusion to writer Dan Watters’s saga of God’s greatest angel—and enemy. Illustrated by Max and Sebastian Fiumara and guest artist Brian Level, this special volume collects the previously unpublished final five issues of Lucifer (#20-24) in their entirety.

I absolutely adore The Sandman and since I finished the original run of the series, I was eager for more. I found The Dreaming which picks up with Daniel, but he too has gone AWOL from the Dreaming just as his predecessor did...which I found kind of an odd premise. After all, he just came into being, he shouldn't get bored for at least another couple millenia. The second collection explains what actually happens, but it almost felt like the authors, after doing the first collection thought, wait a minute...he shouldn't get bored and wander off so soon, let's make up a reason for why he can't come back. Kind of like how Lestat is pure evil in Interview with the Vampire, but when Rice wanted him to be the protagonist in The Vampire Lestat she had to go back and explain away all the behaviours, that he really wasn't all that bad a guy, he was just trying to do his best. Kinda same thing here.
The Dora character also got on my nerves, she was more annoying than sympathetic. But there were moments, like that sex scene with Bal the demon which was hilarious, and Dora eventually grew on me. And I must admit I found the new "Endless", Wan, to be kind of fascinating...and it made sense, in this day and age, why can't an AI emerge as a new god, a schizophrenic who was trying to be kind but occasionally went batshit crazy?
Though there was humour and darkness, mystery, insanity, and complete randomness, it just didn't have the same feel. Gaiman was involved I understand but he didn't write it. And while I still enjoyed getting to spend more time in the Dreaming (though Dream himself was mostly absent) it wasn't quite the same. I did like the emphasis on the importance and meaning of stories as well as beginnings and endings. It just...it felt more like a fanfic? And the last book got almost melodramatic.
Ironically I started reading The Sandman because I had watched the Lucifer TV series and discovered it was based on a character in The Sandman, and while I've now read all the Sandman series, as well as the Dreaming, Lucifer didn't manage to fit into my gods/angels/demon themed year of 2021. Well, something still to look forward to.
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