Many Deaths of Laila Starr

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La Muerte tiene ahora una posibilidad de buscar a Darius, que es un recién nacido, y recuperar lo que ha perdido, pero ¿será capaz? Las muchas muertes de #LailaStarr es uno de esos cómics que no pueden faltar en tu estantería. Edita @planetadcomic Clic para tuitear Más allá de la premisa Struggling with her new-found mortality, Laila has found a way to be placed in the time and place where the creator of immortality will be born...

I wasn’t taken with Filipe Andrade’s goopy, funhouse-mirror-style art though I liked the colourfulness of the comic overall. Indian mysticism is nothing if not colourful and I liked that reflected in the visuals. And, even if Ram V’s writing continues to leave me unimpressed, his observation of why funerals are so ritualised because it’s the one aspect of death we have control over, is a pretty smart one (unless he’s just repeating something someone else said).

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Llevaba mucho tiempo detrás de este cómic (desde que un compañero del trabajo me lo recomendó) y me alegro de por fin haberlo leído gracias a la reciente edición que ha traído Planeta Cómic. No tienes la suerte de leer grandes cómics cada día. In Mumbai, apparently such beings as Death and God work in a high rise office setting. Death is called to God's office to be let go, bc there's a baby being born that will bring eternal life and therefore making Death's job unnecessary. I feel the same way about the work I do on these big characters as well. I do get a lot of fandom reactions. Most of the time, they’re really nice, in that people have really enjoyed the work. Sometimes they are a bit negative because someone expected something and they didn’t get that. But largely all of that is like, “Huh, cool,” and then it’s done. The story: the god of death is let go by a corporation culture of gods. She becomes mortal at the same time a baby is born who is going to discover a cure for death. The story shows the two of them overlapping and interacting throughout their lives, and throughout the many deaths of the former god of death.maravillosa y llena de lecciones, Las muchas muertes de Laila Starr es uno de esos cómics que entusiasman al lector y le recuerdan la grandeza del noveno arte. Ya solo por eso, merece la pena su descubrimiento. Curiosamente, otro nexo entre la obra de Andrade y Moon está también en la propia historia, ya que podríamos relacionarla con la fantástica Daytripper, cómic de Bá y Moon, que abarcaba también los ciclos infinitos de la vida y la muerte. Conocí a Ram V por la lectura de Blue in green para escribir un artículo para la revista de la editorial ECC y me ha sorprendido contrastar aquella historia tan oscura sobre música y fantasmas con esta historia tan vital sobre la propia muerte. Lejos de caer en lo cursi o en lo facilón, Ram V es uno de esos autores a seguir. Maravillosa portada alternativa de Laila Starr. La universalidad de Laila Sería injusto, no obstante, hablar del color, donde Andrade cuenta con Inês Amaro, para forjar una paleta propia donde el rojo, el amarillo, el naranja, el verde, el azul, el turquesa… crean nuestra propia visión de la India, un lugar donde todo podría pasar en cualquier instante. No es la primera vez que vemos a un avatar de la muerte en el cómic. Tenemos a otra muerte en Marvel y también a la Mater Morbi de Dylan Dog, pero el enfoque de Laila Starr está más cercano a la hermana de Morfeo.

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But I digress and will now promptly run away from that list of my own personal recurring pet peeves for comics… THE MANY DEATHS OF LAILA STARR is the newest release from BOOM! Studios’ eponymous imprint, home to critically acclaimed original series, including BRZRKR by Keanu Reeves, Matt Kindt, and Ron Garney; We Only Find Them When They’re Dead by Al Ewing and Simone Di Meo; Seven Secrets by Tom Taylor and Daniele Di Nicuolo; Something is Killing the Children by James Tynion IV and Werther Dell’Edera; Once & Future by Kieron Gillen and Dan Mora; Faithless by Brian Azzarello and Maria Llovet; and Abbott by Saladin Ahmed and Sami Kivelä. The imprint also publishes popular licensed properties, including Dune: House Atreides from Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson, and Dev Pramanik; Buffy the Vampire Slayer from Jordie Bellaire and David López; Firefly from Greg Pak, Lalit Kumar Sharma & Daniel Bayliss; and Mighty Morphin and Power Rangers series from Ryan Parrott, Marco Renna, and Francesco Mortarino.

I was a little torn at the beginning of this book because the initial jumps in the timeline had me a little confused. Then I figured out how this plotline was working, and enjoyed it quite a bit. It starts with the goddess of death removed from her job and sent down to earth for her to find a man named Darius who finds the cure to death..Immortality. And bonded with a mortal named Laila Starr we follow her journey as she meets this man at various points of his life and I love how each issue she dies and after many years is resurrected by Pranah (God of Life) but meets Darius and how he blames her when they meet in his adult self but right in the end, the convo they have and the revelations that happen change them and the story comes full circle and its one of the most beautiful endings ever. All in all if you’d like to read something that discusses mortality or uses Hinduism in a fun way similar to how Greek and Norse mythology are used in today’s popular culture, then this is a great book. It’s a really good read. The Way of Zen, adapted and illustrated by C. C. Tsai, translated by Brian Bruya (Princeton University Press)In terms of art, it’s as colourful as India and the religion of Hinduism whilst having a warm and nice colour pallet, so that you can feel the heat of India and the emotions of the story. The art was really great. Y vienen los «peros». Y en este caso, me duele no poder darle las cinco estrellas, por mucho que me haya encantado este cómic y no deje de recomendarlo. El mayor problema de Las muchas muertes de Laila Starr es el que apuntaba al principio: tengo la sensación de que podría haber dado todavía más de sí. You’re launching a Detective Comics run in July. What are your Batman touchstones, whether they be creators, texts, or movies? Thought-provoking, touching, and bittersweet, this was a worthwhile exploration of life, death, and all that they could mean.