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Dawn: Lucifer's Halo

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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.

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 . . .

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.

Lucifer's Halo is the remarkable story of one man's spiritual battle with religion. Michael Joseph Lisner's striking art, incomparable symbolism and dialogue, provocative enough to startle, enhance the epic. Darrian Ashoka lives in a surrealistic New York City where the lower class is left to its plundering and filth by an elitist church who have moved to the city's outskirts. During a weekly Saturday night riot, Darrian is approached by Dawn, an enigmatic feminine deity, who invades his bed and provokes his intellect. On their next meeting, Dawn gives him Lucifer's Halo, remaining from his days as an angel. It is a dangerous bridge between Heaven and Hell and Darrian soon finds himself hounded by both sides in a bid for it. Darrian's fight to keep his gift is one of fright, confusion and reckoning. He must overcome fear and anger towards the other side and look deeply into his human soul for strength, truth and the right choice.

There are few graphic novels in my vast collection with such lush, visually appealing illustrations as JML's. Dawn is the most beautifully rendered (caucasian) vision of the Goddess ever captured on paper, and to quote the foreword, few artists have reflected such a love for his main character as Linsner. His hard rock/heavy metal heritage is plain to see throughout the book, but it does not diminish the fact that Dawn is alive in his mind and on the pages. The written story itself isn't as solid as it could have been, but Linsner's skills as a graphic storyteller more than compensate for any shortcomings one might find. Any serious lover of art, fantasy or mythology should own Lucifer's Halo. PAGANS RULE!