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As usual, Morrison throws a half a dozen ideas at you once. The main contrast is between the central character's suburban concerns as a young Pakistani living in Bradford about to meet his bride (it's an arranged marriage), and his blundering upon an ancient Hindu city below his uncle's shop. He and his fiance stumble around, unleash a pack of evil gods, and... you can guess the rest. These cultural elements are unusual in mainstream comics, and Morrison handles them with wit and humour, especially Ali's romantic frustrations at falling for a girl who has caught the eye of one of the Gods, and trying to get her to notice him while the world is falling apart. The details of the cosmic conflict, though, are confusing and underdeveloped. Morrison and illustrator, Philip Bond, could have used a couple more issues to explain the nature of the gods and their conflict. Bond appropriately takes Jack Kirby as a starting point for his artwork, and it's generally very good. Overall then, too lightweight, but charming and definitely worth a look.

A whole bunch of stuff in here, perhaps enough to make it a little disjointed at times. It was ok, but that was about it.

A young man is to have a marriage arranged for him, but a superhuman wants his bride to be as well, so she has to decide.

Throw in secret cities, demons, gods, all that sort of stuff to cause some chaos, as well.