Lucifer

Lucifer 1-4

Recapping events, since they’re all part of Lucifer’s plan.

Susano-O-No-Mikoto last seen in Sandman, bargains w/ Remiel and obtains Lucifer’s wings.  (Left behind in Hell after Morpheus cut them off in Season of Mists.)  

Lucifer approaches Meleos for a divination in order to ascertain the truth behind the letter of passage Heaven paid him in the previous mini-series.  He wants the reading done with the Basanos, a living Tarot deck that Meleos created eons ago.

In order to prevent the Basanos, now powerful beyond his control, from getting loose, Meleos tries to destroy them.  But he completely fails, the Basanos escape, and imprint themselves on Jill Presto. Lucifer gets his augury, and learns that the letter can only be opened in one direction.  In a bit of outside the box thinking, he uses the letter to create a portal but leaves it open, attracting the attention of supernatural beings from all over. (It’s similar to Dream obtaining the key to Hell in Season of Mists.)  

Aside: Meleos’ life work is the collection of every book written in human history.  (The mirror image of Lucien’s library of every book ever dreamed.) As retribution for attempting to thwart his plans, Lucifer causes all of the words in Meleos’ collection to melt away into ink.  It’s truly cruel, the entirely of human thought dissolved into rivers of black.

We’re introduced to Elaine Belloc, who has the ability to talk to dead people.  Lucifer saves her life at the suggestion of the Basanos.

This arc wasn’t that good - The Meleos/Basanos plot was diluted by neo-Nazis, the men who love them, and Chris Weston art that doesn’t work nearly as well as the artists who follow him.  But things are going to pick up soon enough.

Regret buying? No

Would buy again? Yes

Would read again? Yes

Rating: Fine