maravillosa y llena de lecciones, Las muchas muertes de Laila Starr es uno de esos cómics que entusiasman al lector y le recuerdan la grandeza del noveno arte. Ya solo por eso, merece la pena su descubrimiento. But I digress and will now promptly run away from that list of my own personal recurring pet peeves for comics… Aunque se concentra en un solo tomo y nos libramos de devaneos que no viniesen a cuento, debo reconocer que hay muchos secundarios (la niña fantasma, el cuervo…) que hubiera deseado que ocupasen más números. Del mismo modo, se podría haber profundizado más en la mitología de estos personajes. Lo agradezco profundamente. Brandon Sanderson hablaba de las recompensas que los autores debían dar a sus lectores. En ocasiones, recibir una recompensa que no te esperas y que es mejor que la que anhelabas, es fantástico. Esto ocurre con este cómic.

Indudablemente, el lector no puede evitar enamorarse de Laila Starr, igual que nos enamorábamos de la Muerte de los Eternos de Neil Gaiman. Y sí, como todo buen lector de cómic habrá notado, hay algunos aspectos que recuerdan a la hermana mayor de The Sandman, aunque las influencias de Ram V quedan sostenidas también por la ambientación de la India que da a su historia. Thought-provoking, touching, and bittersweet, this was a worthwhile exploration of life, death, and all that they could mean. The Many Deaths of Laila Starr has a fun premise - a sorta Indian take on a Pratchett/Gaiman’s Good Omens-style story - that turns out to be quite dull thanks to a lot of overly-simplistic storytelling. Por tanto, la muerte ya no es necesaria… de ninguna manera. Las muchas muertes de Laila Starr es uno de los mejores cómics que se han publicado en nuestro país en los últimos meses. Las muchas vidas de Laila

On a more creative aspect, I think good storytelling always pushes to create some form of synaesthesia. In that, you start blurring the lines between “Am I reading something? Am I hearing something? Am I touching something?” Good prose does that as well, so there’s no reason good comics shouldn’t. And uniquely, because of this technical relationship with music, there’s a possibility of making people hear things in comics, which is unusual, and so I like using that. So I think that ties in really well with my love of music.

THE MANY DEATHS OF LAILA STARR is the newest release from BOOM! Studios’ eponymous imprint, home to critically acclaimed original series, including BRZRKR by Keanu Reeves, Matt Kindt, and Ron Garney; We Only Find Them When They’re Dead by Al Ewing and Simone Di Meo; Seven Secrets by Tom Taylor and Daniele Di Nicuolo; Something is Killing the Children by James Tynion IV and Werther Dell’Edera; Once & Future by Kieron Gillen and Dan Mora; Faithless by Brian Azzarello and Maria Llovet; and Abbott by Saladin Ahmed and Sami Kivelä. The imprint also publishes popular licensed properties, including Dune: House Atreides from Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson, and Dev Pramanik; Buffy the Vampire Slayer from Jordie Bellaire and David López; Firefly from Greg Pak, Lalit Kumar Sharma & Daniel Bayliss; and Mighty Morphin and Power Rangers series from Ryan Parrott, Marco Renna, and Francesco Mortarino. All in all if you’d like to read something that discusses mortality or uses Hinduism in a fun way similar to how Greek and Norse mythology are used in today’s popular culture, then this is a great book. It’s a really good read. Ultimately, the bottom line here is that The Many Deaths of Laila Starr #1 is Very Good (capitalization intentional). This book is swaggering with its use of craft and poetics and compelling story, adding up to one of my favorite new comics of the year. The Life and Comics of Howard Cruse: Taking Risks in the Service of Truth, by Andrew J. Kunka (Rutgers University Press) In terms of art, it’s as colourful as India and the religion of Hinduism whilst having a warm and nice colour pallet, so that you can feel the heat of India and the emotions of the story. The art was really great.

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With the idea that you're reinventing yourselves with each issue across The Many Deaths of Laila Starr, how challenging and exciting is that creatively? The Way of Zen, adapted and illustrated by C. C. Tsai, translated by Brian Bruya (Princeton University Press) The premise is very interesting and unique as it’s about the God of Death being fired as someone who invents immortality is born. I found the writing to be excellent and there is a flex of their strength and confidence in their writing skills in some issues where you’ll have side characters such as; a cigarette box narrating some of the events and for these bits to be massive highlights of the book overall. I also enjoyed the story being told and the themes that can be extracted including the moral of it, too. Death is the scariest concept to me and I think of frequently on a daily basis so parts of this book made me very depressed and miserable. However, the ending was really beneficial for coming to terms with your mortality which I appreciated as I’d be a waterworks mess if not. (Not a bad thing as I like sad art, just describing my thoughts and feelings about this book). It starts with the goddess of death removed from her job and sent down to earth for her to find a man named Darius who finds the cure to death..Immortality. And bonded with a mortal named Laila Starr we follow her journey as she meets this man at various points of his life and I love how each issue she dies and after many years is resurrected by Pranah (God of Life) but meets Darius and how he blames her when they meet in his adult self but right in the end, the convo they have and the revelations that happen change them and the story comes full circle and its one of the most beautiful endings ever.

I remember issue 4, the issue with the Chinese immigrant in Mumbai, where did that come from for you? I don’t think that’s taught to a lot of people in history, I don’t think a lot of people are aware of it, but it’s super fascinating. So where did that come from, when did you know you had to put that in? Sería injusto, no obstante, hablar del color, donde Andrade cuenta con Inês Amaro, para forjar una paleta propia donde el rojo, el amarillo, el naranja, el verde, el azul, el turquesa… crean nuestra propia visión de la India, un lugar donde todo podría pasar en cualquier instante.I Wanna Be a Slob,” by Michael Kamison and Steven Arnold, in Too Tough to Die (Birdcage Bottom Books)