- Paperback: 160 pages
- Publisher: Vertigo (25 Oct 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1563898926
- ISBN-13: 978-1563898921
- Product Dimensions: 16.9 x 1 x 25.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 315,294 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Couldn't disagree more with previous three star review. Being a trade paperback, Dalliance with the Damned is not meant to be a stand alone title. As to it's departure from the Sandman formula - this is of course the whole point of a spin-off series - ie to develop it's own character and style.
While I would recomend the Lucifer series, I would suggest starting with the earlier two books in the series as the plot tends to become very convoluted and many story arcs take a long while to come to fruition. Story arcs both from earlier books and those started in this edition are continued in the ongoing comic serialisation(I particularily enjoyed the introduction of the Christopher Ruud character). This is definitely more of a bridging edition leading up to Lucifers confrontation with Amiel in later episodes.
To summarise, Lucifer is probably the best ongoing series for the mature comic reader and while this particular book would only get four stars, I'm going to give it five to average out the previous poor review.
While I would recomend the Lucifer series, I would suggest starting with the earlier two books in the series as the plot tends to become very convoluted and many story arcs take a long while to come to fruition. Story arcs both from earlier books and those started in this edition are continued in the ongoing comic serialisation(I particularily enjoyed the introduction of the Christopher Ruud character). This is definitely more of a bridging edition leading up to Lucifers confrontation with Amiel in later episodes.
To summarise, Lucifer is probably the best ongoing series for the mature comic reader and while this particular book would only get four stars, I'm going to give it five to average out the previous poor review.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Lucifer - Daliance with the Dammned is the third in the Lucifer series one of the two spin offs from "The Sandman" by Neil Gaimen.
The first and second of these books were brilliant stories with the devil as a golden haried hero casting off his reputation of the evil one and becomming once more the lightbringer.
Casting the devil as protagonist in the first place was a bold move and the first two books A Devil in the Gatway and Children and Monsters possesed much of The Sandmans style.
A Dalliance with the Damned is more of a calydascope of imagery with no real central point. Those who have grown fond of Lucifers dry style in the first two books will miss his wity comments in this as he is barely in it.
As this is a graphical book lets talk about the artwork, again not a patch on the previous two, the famous bold colours of the Sandman were taken directly to Lucifer and this seems to have lost them.
All in all I hope this is blip rather than a flop as there is more stories to be told though it might be said that Children and Monsters ended almost too well and perhaps should have been left there with perhaps more of a Sandman style approach of building the charecters.
While this is not a bad graphic novel nor is it in the same league as the previous two.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Presents supernatural creatures as all too human
4 Jan 2003
Format:Paperback
Based on characters created and/or reinterpreted by Neil Gaiman's acclaimed "Sandman" comic book series, Lucifer: A Dalliance With The Damned is the third volume and is comprised of issues 14-20 of the Eisner Award nominated "Lucifer" comic book series, offering a graphic and full color tail of demon rivalry and motives at cross purpose. The monstrous children of Lilith, forever denied the Garden of Paradise despite their lack of relation to original sinners Adam and Eve, mount a war of rebellion and conquest in this dramatic and occasionally risque tale, suggested for mature readers. A fascinating page turner that presents supernatural creatures as all too human, sharing few virtues many vices with their mortal counterparts, Lucifer: A Dalliance With The Damned is a superbly produced and highly recommended graphic novel.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
The cosmos expands
11 July 2003
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An amazing tapestry of stories, some small, some large, but all full of deep insights. Chances are, you won't notice all of them in the first reading, because the stories are so gripping. But read everything a second time, and you may find a lot of points, that you overlooked.
The longest story 'A Dalliance with the Damned' is among other things a fine hellish version of 'Dangerous liaisons' (pleasure and pain and all that jazz ...) but how Carey pulls off the final twist in this setting is truly amazing.
Nevertheless my favorites are the free-standing stories 'The ancestral deed' (how would Adam and Eve behave if the creator had a different set of rules?) and 'The Thunder Sermon' where the dark side of the Lightbringer is shown in truly terrifying grandeur. Rebelling against God may be hard, but doing a better job, now that's a completely different story ...
Plans and Portents
4 Sep 2011
Format:Paperback
The secret of the nominally Christian Hell imagined by Neil Gaiman in Sandman and expanded upon herein by Mike Carey is that it isn't really Hell as we normally understand it: damned souls can leave at any time if they can stop believing themselves to be damned. But that rarely happens.
The three major arcs of this volume follow Lucifer, a magical little girl and the denizens of one of Hell's provinces as various plans and counterplans proceed apace. Very bad things happen. A human released from torment manages to outwit his tormenters. Lucifer continues to be his grumpy, sardonic self. And his companion Mazikeen, bizarrely maimed in a successful attempt to save its life, begins to rise up the ranks of the Lilim, those demonic beings born of the union of Adam's mostly forgotten wife Lilith and the demons of Hell.
As always, there's a nice mix of zany but 'real' mythological material and Carey's occasionally post-modern musings on gods, angels, redemption, and damnation. The demons and devils are loathsome, but so too are some of the angels opposing Lucifer. Strange, heady stuff.
The three major arcs of this volume follow Lucifer, a magical little girl and the denizens of one of Hell's provinces as various plans and counterplans proceed apace. Very bad things happen. A human released from torment manages to outwit his tormenters. Lucifer continues to be his grumpy, sardonic self. And his companion Mazikeen, bizarrely maimed in a successful attempt to save its life, begins to rise up the ranks of the Lilim, those demonic beings born of the union of Adam's mostly forgotten wife Lilith and the demons of Hell.
As always, there's a nice mix of zany but 'real' mythological material and Carey's occasionally post-modern musings on gods, angels, redemption, and damnation. The demons and devils are loathsome, but so too are some of the angels opposing Lucifer. Strange, heady stuff.
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