The cover chatter boasts this is ″the new Buffy″ to which I say meh. Don’t get me wrong I absolutely loved this graphic novel, from ″Lucifer″ herself, to the bold colors and art. But this isn’t Buffy.
For one Lucifer is a thief, mainly she steals from demons, and often she steals things back for people. She’s got a bag of tricks, literally, a sassy ‘tude, sure, but she wouldn’t be at home in a California high school talking fashion and falling in love with vampires.
This is less Buffy and more…Constantine or Hell Boy Lite. Less smoking, less gore (There’s plenty of opportunity for it, but Hexed authors skew away from the grunge gore) and next to no romantic entanglements in this first issue at least. Luci is a witch/magician/dabbler who occasionally faces down demons in a literal sense. In this volume she’s trapped into stealing a relic with the power to kill anyone whose name it’s given. And the person forcing her to steal it wants to kill off and replace the kingpin of the magical world, putting Luci at risk from her forces of mostly-evil too.
Again, I really liked this book, page to page, and hope to find more. I’m also glad to see it’s being released in a new edition/volume in July 2015.