Dawn: Lucifer's Halo [Paperback]

Joseph Michael Linsner (Author), P. Craig Russell (Introduction)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1997

DAWN is the epic tale of good and evil, Heaven and Hell, death and rebirth played out on the nightmarish streets of Manhattan, set during an indeterminate future. Darrian Ashoka--slayer of demons and murderer of angels--stands at a crossroads in his life. He has met Dawn, a mysterious woman who may or may not be the Earth Goddess incarnate. In his search for his own identity and his role in the eternal war between Ahura Mazda and Lucifer, Darrian learns something about cosmic fate and the way the universe really works. Rife with true love, absolute hatred, eternal damnation, relentless war, lost souls and divine illumination, LUCIFER'S HALO is the kind of book that gets better every time you read it. Written and illustrated by Joseph Michael Linsner.

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About the Author

Joseph Michael Linsner is a self-trained artist who left New York before Darrian Ashoka did. In 1999 he celebrated Dawn's 10th anniversary in print and is currently working on DAWN: RETURN OF THE GODDESS, a 4-issue miniseries.

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Sirius Entertainment (November 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1579890148
• ISBN-13: 978-1579890148
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 6.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,499,694 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A MARK OF A TRUE MASTER, March 3, 1999

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This review is from: Dawn: Lucifer's Halo (Paperback)

Joesph Michael Linsner displays unreal control, not only over the art, but the language as well. His images of heaven and hell, will captivate and astonish you. He involves the reader into the mind of his characters, and shows the reader twisted to humurous images of the divine and of the damned. This is not a comic book, but a novel that will change the way you look at everything! An individual would be hard pressed to rise above this ingenious display.

5.0 out of 5 stars Sorry, i'm too biased . . ., December 7, 2009

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This review is from: Dawn: Lucifer's Halo (Paperback)

I'm very sorry I didn't know this figure when these books were first offered, but I'm trying to catch up. Still I do not think I can write a review without seeming too biased, because I have tracked this book down and bought it because I really wanted to OWN it. I appreciate this author and his work more than I like to admit, and though it is now some time since I bought the book, I still have not finished reading the book (over again) as every time you read it, you get something new from it.
The first time I read it I mostly just read the epic story to keep the line in it flowing, but the following time I read the images more closely, and it is like being immersed in hot, soft water, and sink down in it completely.
I think the figure DAWN in this authors interpretation represents the quintessential lady of love for whom we are all longing deep in our hearts. I'm sorry, but Linsner manipulates you with his images to involuntarily fall in love with this goddess even though you know you should keep your distance as it is only a figure in a book. Still i bet that none of the persons who read this book can go untouched, admit it. I am thankful that authors like Linsner lives and creates this kind of experience for us to share. I look forward to start reading the next book "Return of the Goddess", and I will keep it for some occasion where I can read it without interruptions so that I can concentrate on it completely, like when I read this book.
Till then . . .

4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not for the conservative, August 19, 1999

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This review is from: Dawn: Lucifer's Halo (Paperback)

There are four gods above all others, Allah/Adonai/Yahweh the god of order, rigid and merciless; Lucifer the cast off angel who now commands chaos, mercurial and chaoitc; Dawn, the mother goddess of birth and rebirth; and her husband, the horned lord of the hunt and death, Cerennus. The story follows Dawn as she attempts to reawaken her lover to his divine nature, in his mortal incarnation of Darrian Ashkova. She gives him Lucifer's Halo so that he can see and interact with the people of Heaven and Hell, and learn his own place in the scheme of things. A definite must for anyone into great storytelling.