His crisp and vividly rendered drawings capture the haunting sense of loss and isolation Gaiman expresses in this mythic tale of love and jealousy. Also, Poison Ivy by Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham, tying in with the BLACK ORCHID miniseries. Using sharp, crystalline drawings of the eternal city and ribbons of color that suggest creation's simultaneous plasticity and solidity, Russell conveys a bright, illuminated world of purity and divine experimentation. Book Summary: The secrets are all in the Green Lantern family as we explore the origins of Earth’s original GL, Hal Jordan and the secret origin of Tom Kalmak. But upon wreaking God's vengeance, Raguel began to realize it was God himself who set up this murder. Like an unearthly detective, Raguel questioned his fellow angels until he discovered the murderer and then delivered the Lord's terrible punishment. As I read I could hear the play unfolding in its myriad layers. When an angel was found murdered, Raguel was assigned to find the killer and his motives. In 1998 I picked up a copy of Neil Gaiman’s short story collection Smoke And Mirrors, and was instantly drawn to Murder Mysteries.

In Raguel's former world, the one in which he had wings, he served as the agent of the Lord's vengeance. Raguel is a lost angel, a ragged drifter on the streets of Los Angeles, who tells this story to the narrator, a young Brit stranded on his way back to England. Celebrated comics creators Gaiman ( Sandman) and Russell ( The Ring of the Nibelung) have teamed up to produce a story of deception and vengeance involving the first betrayal, the first heartbreak and the first crime in God's own city of angels.

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