Lady Demon: Hell to Pay

Lady Demon: Hell to pay #1-4

by Aaron Gillespie (Writer), Joyce Chin (Artist), Cedric Poulat (Artist)

Lady Demon, the archduchess of Hell, is on the run! Hunted by Lucifer's war parties after a failed assassination plot, her only chance is to escape to Earth inside a living vessel. Selecting a recently murdered young woman named Violet Sparks, she takes flight from Perdition as a stowaway, only able to exert control of her host's body in times of extreme duress. But little could she suspect that Violet is the center of a dark conspiracy... an innocent wrongly condemned to Hell for the sins of her bloodline. Together, Lady Demon and Violet unravel the mystery of the woman's parentage while cutting a bloody, fiery swath through the Deep South!

Genres: Horror, Graphic Novels, Comics

112 pages, Paperback

First published December 24, 2015

About the author

Aaron Gillespie is a recent graduate of the DC New Talent Workshop. Since then he has written Green Lanterns and New Challengers with Scott Snyder and Andy Kubert.

He has also written WWE comics at Boom and stories in Spread from Image Comics.

Reviews

[Porsha · Rating 4 out of 5]

Bitchin'!

Lady D kicked some redneck hellspawned arse up in this here comic, son. !!! Seriously? A good time had by all

[C. Varn · Rating 3 out of 5]

Mirka Andolfo's illustrations are good, but not as good as the artwork for Dynamite's Chao relaunch version of Purgatori. Gillespie's work here overlaps his work there, but without the stellar art, the unevenness of the plot shows and the steams are visible. The beginning of the plot is fairly good with Lady Demon bringing back an innocent teenager murdered and thus we got a revenge tale, but instead of predictability which often mars the Dynamite version of the Chaos Comics book, we get borderline incoherences. The limits and developments of Lady Demon's powers are inconsistent and why an innocent woman ended up in hell in the first place is never really explained. So many interesting premises in this comic don't go anywhere.

[47Time · Rating 3 out of 5]

The dialogue is smart and fun, but the story is a jumbled mess of an urban fantasy. The pacing varies wildly, from a solid beginning, to trying to explain too much at once in the middle, to a rushed ending.

Young Violet wakes up after a picnic with her boyfriend only to find out he has been killed right next to her. She too bears a fatal wound to her head that seems to heal rapidtly. She tries to get help from her father, but is too late. She finds the two men who shot her and her boyfriend. They shoot her again, only to release Lady Demon from within her. This entity helped her stay 'alive' and now revels in punishing the two men. Violet's goal is to find out what happened. If it leads to some more people dying, Lady D is all for it.

The conspiracy behind Vi's murder goes deep. It has to do with resurrecting a chaos lord called Genocide. Vi was supposed to be the vessel for Genocide, something her father was training her for. Even Violet's mother is involved. She manages to exorcise Lady Demon from Violet using a seraphim sword, only to have her possess Bedlam, another chaos lord who was working alongside Vi's mother to secure areas that connect to another world.

Lady Demon departs for hell, but Violet and her mother band together. The two aim to stop Genocide's resurrection. Unfortunately, Vi's mother is killed, but Vi merges with Lady Demon again and the two kill evrything that moves and stay together for more adventures.

[Jessica · Rating 4 out of 5]

Surprisingly Good

I wasn't expecting much from a book called Lady Demon, but the description sounded interesting, so I picked it up. And I was pleasantly surprised! Sure, there was plenty of panels of scantily clad female characters, but the story was good. A young woman suddenly finds herself shot and sharing her body with a, you guessed it, lady demon. Is it a weird buddy comedy? Kinda. Mostly action horror. It pulled me in, plus, the setting was fresh.

So yeah, I liked it and I'd recommend it.

[Bob · Rating 5 out of 5]

Interesting plot and some really fantastic interior illustration and cover art. Violet Sparks/Lady Demon rocks. Hope to see future offerings from Chaos/Dynamite.

[Robert Bussie · Rating 2 out of 5]

The story is uneven. Lady Demon has enough power to challenge Lucifer but can not handle some minor demons on her own? She is linked to a human who dies and should not have ended up on hell. So, why did this woman end up on hell? And then there is the mother and daughter story that seems unnecessary. In short, average rushed story with a lot of plot holes and average art work.

[Albert Yates · Rating 2 out of 5]

What was that? Just boobs and horns? Can I get that time back?

[Wolgan · Rating 1 out of 5]

I wish I could get back the time I spent reading this garbage. I just kept reading, hoping it would get better. But no, shallow schlock, probably somebody's excuse to draw half naked women. There really is no redeeming value here.