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With the departure of God from his creation, all of existence
now teeters on the edge of oblivion. In the absence of any
divine guidance, the archangel Michael must find a way to
stem the tide of destruction - and that means a visit to the
only one who can know the future with any certainty: Destiny
of the Endless. But whatever insight Michael gains from the
cryptic Destiny, it cannot protect against the threat which
has just awoken, hungry to fulfil the terrible dictates of
its nature. Only Lucifer Morningstar can see what is coming
to Yggdrasil, the World Tree, and what will happen at its
roots when it arrives. The hour of the wolf is at hand, and
its echoes may reach out to shake the foundations of Lucifer's
cosmos as well as our own...
The
Wolf Beneath the Tree is,
to my mind, the finest Lucifer graphic novel I've read
to date. When an angel, Samael Morningstar, copulates with
a woman who has offended the heavens by bearing numerous demon
offspring, it is the start of something much more sinister.
This
collection tackles issue that will no doubt have theologists
up in arms - God away from Heaven and Lucifer doing what he
believes to be the right thing.
I
couldn't help remembering a sketch from Not the 9 O'clock
News while I was reading this. "Satan? Is he all
bad?" Lucifer Morningstar is not all bad. In fact he
tries to do the right thing but is just a little misguided.
Heaven
is the not idilic place mankind has made it into - far from
it. Everything is messed up!
Highlights
in this collection include the last few days in the life of
a young man who is destined to commit suicide - thanks to
a demon possession, and the messed up mind of a man who killed
his wife and daughter, but believes they are still very much
alive and waiting for him to join them.
One
of the most intelligently written collections I have read
in a long time.
Nick
Smithson
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