Lucifer, Twenty Five Years Later: Part 1 – Children and Monsters Prelude (Issue 9) Review
Writer: Mike Carey Artist: Dean Ormston Vertigo Comics, February 2001 This critique is the first of a series of reviews of Mike Carey’s epic work Lucifer, which this year celebrates 25 years since inception. The series was a spin-off from Neil Gaiman’s acclaimed The Sandman comic book series. The Sandman was a kaleidoscopic epic of the personifications of universal constants. But despite his relatively ancillary role, Lucifer is second only to God in the superstructure of creation, described by the series’ protagonist, Morpheus, the Dream King, as far more potent than he. This is a different creature than the foppish British protagonist of Warner Brothers’ six season Lucifer television series, or the depressed, emo, equally-British Lucifer of the two season Netflix television version of The Sandman. But even within The Sandman comic book, Lucifer initially starts off as deliberately riffing a languid David Bowie, and then in his second appearance
