I’m still not sure if I like this one or not, but I’m definitely intrigued by this new series. Sometimes I’m okay with the author taking a sink or swim approach for the reader; either you’ll pick up the story as it goes along or you’ll spend too much time stressing the details and give up in frustration. It usually depends on the author, with the right one, I feel like I at least have someone in a rowboat encouraging me to press on. But sometimes an author makes it feel like I’m wearing cement shoes as I try to navigate their world. This one toes the line of both extremes. I tried not to get swept up in the unanswered questions, but there’s just SO MANY.
The basic premise is that every nintey years (why that specific of a number?), twelve (okay, a dozen is a nice number, I can deal with this one) gods/deities return to the world. They get two years (what? why?) to inspire humanity or whatever and then they die. So, the last time was in the twenties, which we see the tail ending of. Now, they are back and they are instant celebrities.
Laura is basically a god groupie in London and becomes friends with Lucifer, who gets set up for murder, maybe? The plot isn’t very easy to put into words when I spend most of my time muttering, “what? what? WHAT?” to myself.
The artworks is amazing, though. It’s worth it just to soak up the most impressive coloring and shading work I’ve ever seen in a comic.
