Many Deaths of Laila Starr

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But will Laila take her chance to permanently reverse the course of (future) history…or does a more shocking fate await her? Une grande BD, que je relirais a coup sûr, et dont je recopierai certains extraits dans un carnet, pour toujours les avoir près de moi.

A very unique and interesting 5 issues comic series that teaches some valuable lessons of life and death. The Many Deaths of Laila Starr is a complete gem of a graphic novel that reminds you ‘ like a cigarette, the point of life, my friends, is to be smoked. The sudden shift in pacing kills the narrative momentum, even if Andrade’s kinetic art captures both the busy chaos of Mumbai and meditative moments alike. In the latest issue, 8-year-old Darius (the foretold “world-changer” who will usher in immortality and make Death redundant) loses Bardhan, a mysterious man that the younger character admired. Will Laila take her chance to stop mankind from permanently altering the cycle of life, or will death really become a thing of the past?The characters are sexy without being exoticized, and the city of 22 million is portrayed in its hectic jumble of ideas and cultural influences. I also enjoyed the story being told and the themes that can be extracted including the moral of it, too. As much as it bends your thoughts towards ideas of death and destruction, it also celebrates life and is a surprisingly comforting read. Instead, take your time, and savor the art, the writing and, well, everything else — the graphic novel has a lot of things going on. I found the writing to be excellent and there is a flex of their strength and confidence in their writing skills in some issues where you’ll have side characters such as; a cigarette box narrating some of the events and for these bits to be massive highlights of the book overall.

Struggling with her newfound mortality, Laila has found a way to be placed in the time and place where the creator of immortality will be born.

Son hermosos y te dejan con una sensación de lo hermosa que es la vida y los pequeños momentos que la hacen lo que es. Ram V brings another rich layer of humanity to the story—and in the process further humanizes the divine…This is not just a story about life and death.

However, “Laila Starr” is more than the sum of its parts; its sleeper diasporic cultural references, gorgeously fluid art and Hindu mythology-inspired storyline work to create something bigger. But Death, now in the resurrected body of Laila, sets off to eliminate Darius, only to be hit by a truck, then resurrected again. Death possesses the body of Laila Starr who killed herself by jumping off a building, to kill the baby who's gonna grow up to invent immortality and ruin Death's entire career. As a result, the avatar of Death is cast down to Earth to live a mortal life in Mumbai as twenty-something Laila Starr. It is rather amusing seeing Death, already in the stolen body of Laila, continuously meet an abrupt and tragic end and have to start over again.The reader is immersed in Mumbai, where technology and Hindu mythology combine to create a backdrop that feels only slightly exaggerated to anyone who has ever lived in India (including myself). Andrade illustrates the setting of Mumbai deftly, with sketchy lines and brilliant warm tones of oranges, yellows and reds contrasted with neon blues and shadowy purples. So it’s never explained why if Death is “fired”, how come people continue to die - how important could she have been if death happens without her actively reaping the dead? 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.

A disinterested young woman named Laila Starr reclines on the ledge of an open window several stories above.The moment when young Darius is confronted with the fleeting nature and sanctity of life is rendered by introducing Bardhan as visually parallel to a tree that Darius is grasping, and then, in the next panel, drawn gigantic (Bardhan’s skin and the bark given a similar tone) as if he, himself, were a looming tree.