Heaven's War - Softcover

Harris, Micah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1607068478 ISBN 13: 9781607068471

Publisher: Image Comics, 2014

Synopsis

• BACK IN PRINT! 1938: J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis are called upon by eccentric fellow fantasist Charles Williams to join him against occultist Aleister Crowley. Crowley seeks an entrance into the Heavenly realms with the intent of manipulating the angelic battles that shape human history and thus mold the world according to his will. Their conflict with Crowley will take this trio of authors — part of the writer's group "the Inklings" — to the very edge of Heaven and one of the Inklings outside time itself!

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From Booklist:

As Paradise Lost makes plain, Lucifer’s expulsion from heaven didn’t end the war of good and evil, which gives comics writer Harris license to envision a nearly full eruption of it in 1938 in his first graphic novel, here reprinted a decade after its original publication. The conflict’s leading human agents are twentieth-century British novelist Charles Williams for God and notorious occultist Aleister Crowley for Satan, with C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and older occultist Arthur E. Waite also involved. Both Williams and Crowley move mystically through time as they converge on a gateway to heaven that the Knights Templar spirited from the Holy Land to Rennes-le-Château, France. Readers of The Da Vinci Code (2003) and Crowley devotees will recognize that French village, and they, along with those who have never heard of it before, including the huge fandoms of Lewis and Tolkien, will probably greatly enjoy Harris’ outré concoction, which he helpfully annotates in a 14-page appendix. Gaydos’ black-and-white artwork, while crying out for color when its smaller details look like clumps of straw, is handsome and appropriate. --Ray Olson

About this edition

• Publisher: Image Comics
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1607068478
• ISBN 13: 9781607068471
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 120