Reign in Hell #8 - DC

Well, this is the final issue of this book, and it really was . . pardon the pun . . one hell of a book. Keith Giffen has basically taken every mystical character in the DC Universe and set them all upon a new path. The irony of this whole thing is that just when Lord Satanus had thought he had won . . he was the new emperor . . Black Alice shows up and tries to do her little leaching bit on him. He steps up and lets her do it. After all, how can this little neophyte of a human hurt him . . Lord Satanus. Well maybe she couldn't but . . Lady Blaze new that at the moment of contact his soul would be laid bare . . so she pounced. She seized the opportunity. And in the moment that Alice was driven insane with the information that she siphoned . . Lady Blaze took out Lord Satanus. So now she's the high mucky-muck. But shortly before that happened, Satanus tricked Lobo into swearing his allegiance to him. So with Blaze's subterfuge . . where does that leave Lobo? Like I said, all of the mystical characters have a place to start anew here. It looks like the only ones that got left behind are Lobo and Sargon. Although, Ralph and Sue still seem to be wandering around. But on the ground below their feet, there's a message . . 'You can leave whenever you want.' It appears that they're not very welcome there. I thought this was a fantastic series. Keith Giffen did a great job of mapping out all of the terrain here. And Tom Derenick and Bill Sienkiewicz's art was incredible. Together they brought a great look to this book. This book really opens a whole bunch of doorways in the DC Universe. Heck, Shadowpact may even be back. Dr Occult says they are, but they've all come back changed so . .it'll be interesting to see where they go from here. And now that all of these characters have been brought into the light . . as it were . . hopefully we'll see more of them in the future, around the DC Universe.