Turns out the book is NOTHING like that (both fortunately and unfortunately). There IS a sardonic humor underpinning the story, but it’s dark. Very dark. Like, homophobes sodomizing a guy with a broken beer bottle in dark alley dark. This is not light, fluffy pre-bed reading (as I discovered, reading it mostly right before bed). It’s heavy. Like lifting an elephant being ridden by an aircraft character. The story is cool. I like weird sci-fi adventures and I think most fans of these sorts of stories will enjoy this one, especially if they like supernatural themes. Todos estos elementos van entretejiendo un argumento que adquiere más y más intriga a medida que pasan las páginas y que jamás aburre. Todo lo contrario, al terminar un tomo se necesita tener el siguiente a mano. Also just a few other random things that I like, either because of the quotes or because of the art:

Anyway. I think I would have liked to have read Gaiman's original story, but (alas!) it wasn't included in this digital version. Lucifer Book Two". Vertigo. DC Comics. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 . Retrieved October 16, 2013. You know how sometimes you’re standing around the water cooler at work and listening to a bunch of lawyers hash out the finer points of the FCRA (Fair Credit Reporting Act), HMDA (Home Mortgage Disclosure Act), or TILA (Truth in Lending Act) and you’re just kind of nodding and smiling, a look of keen interest and sage understanding affixed to your face like the rictus grin of a corpse, even though you really only understand every seventh word they say (usually words like “the,” “and,” or “sometimes”) and have only vaguest idea of where the conversation is going? This is pretty unsatisfying reading for me, and I wish I could articulate why, because many people I respect are big fans of these Lucifer books, and I'd sure like to share the enjoyment they got out of these. I still think Carey's pretty talented, and that he pulled off something worth doing with this book, but something's still missing for me.What can I say about this series? It's amazing. Lucifer is The Man. Classy, elegant, relatively polite and so powerful he doesn't even bother to use cheap displays of might. Just because he left Hell doesn't mean he is good. He just realized that the entire thing- Heaven, Hell, Earth, etc was all part of God's plan. That is simply unacceptable to the Morningstar. He decides it's time for him to change the rules and have his own Plan. The final part has him working with a Nephalim (an angel-human hybrid) to open a gate to the void. Now why would he want to do this? Vol 2 has the answers, though the hints of what is to come are in the first volume. Holub, Christian (March 1, 2018). "Neil Gaiman announces new Sandman Universe line of comics". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved August 7, 2020. The House of Windowless Rooms also gives us the art team that will carry through most of the rest of the series. Peter Gross and Ryan Kelly with Dean Ormston filling in between the bigger arcs. Mike Carey and Peter Gross establish a creative relationship that carries over the next 20 years to The Unwritten, The Highest House, and now The Dollhouse Family.

McCabe, Joe, ed. (2004). "Kelley Jones". Hanging Out with the Dream King. Seattle, WA: Fantagraphics. ISBN 978-1-5609-7617-2. ...Neil was adamant that the Devil was David Bowie. He just said, 'He is. You must draw David Bowie. Find David Bowie, or I'll send you David Bowie. Because if it isn't David Bowie, you're going to have to redo it until it is David Bowie.' So I said, 'Okay, it's David Bowie.'... Neil Gaiman’s 'The Sandman' Casts Tom Sturridge, Gwendoline Christie, Vivienne Acheampong, Boyd Holbrook, Charles Dance, Asim Chaudhry And Sanjeev Bhaskar The series paralleled The Sandman in several ways, with epic fantasy stories being told in arcs separated by one-shot episodes depicting a smaller, more personal tale. Unlike The Sandman, the series has had a consistent art team in Peter Gross and Ryan Kelly, with most of the odd issues illustrated by Dean Ormston. The title's 50th issue was penciled by P. Craig Russell, a homage to The Sandman #50. Structurally, the series mostly follows its own path. Numerous gods appear, with greater focus on Judeo-Christian religion (as viewed by Milton in Paradise Lost), Japanese mythology and Norse mythology than in The Sandman. As for the Endless themselves, Dream, Death, Delirium and Destiny appear, but their appearances are small and rare. Destiny, perhaps, plays the biggest role in so far as he represents predestination, which Lucifer of course finds "offensive as a concept", stating that Lucifer knows Destiny is "really just a SIDE effect of [Lucifer's] FATHER, or rather, his deterministic APPROACH to the act of creation." Mike Carey does great work in general, with his offbeat take on reality and his ability to (apparently) effortlessly invoke the mythic value of stories. In this compilation, he tells the story of Lucifer, the Lucifer that Neil Gaiman gave us in the Sandman. The one that got bored with ruling Hell, quit and now runs a nightspot in LA where he plays the piano.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 surprisingly single-minded in telling the tale of the title character's most recent war against his creator. And frankly, I'd rather read about cunning, crafy, cold, cruel Lucifer than mopey Morpheus. The spin-off series Lucifer (2000–2006) written by Mike Carey depicts his adventures on Earth, Heaven, and in the various other realms of his family's creations and in uncreated voids after abandoning Hell in The Sandman. [1] Lucifer also appears as a supporting character in issues of The Demon, The Spectre, and other DC Universe comics. Two angels, a human, and briefly Superman [2] have taken his place as ruler of Hell.