Aria: Heavenly Creatures

Aria (Avalon Press) #5-6

by Brian Holguin, Brian Haberlin (Artist), Jay Anacleto (Artist)

Lady Kildare, expatriate princess of Faerie, is living a life of aristocratic decadence among Victorian London's social elite. One night, while slumming among the city's notorious underbelly, Kildare and her companions come across an illicit underground sideshow boasting "Creation's Most Wondrous and Perverse Curiosities." The centerpiece of this bizarre menagerie? A genuine angel held in captivity! This sets the stage for an unlikely alliance and the beginning of an unforgettable tale of mystery, adventure, and retribution.

49 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 17, 2021

About the author

American writer who writes comics, novels and animation. Some of his works include "Aria", "Savior," "Spawn" "The Dark Crystal: Creation Myths," "Godslayer" and "Kiss: Psycho Circus".

Reviews

[Florin Pitea · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quite nice, but rather brief.

[47Time · Rating 3 out of 5]

While the artwork is to die for and the dialogue has the feel of British aristocracy, the story less presentable and too short. The comic is clearly putting much more emphasis on looking good. I wonder why they didn't just do away with all the text.

The secretly immortal Lady Kildare discovers another immortal creature held prisoner in a 'collection of curiosities'. It's an angel, so Lady Kildare sets out to free it. The angel's captor is more powerful than she first thought. He and the angel fight it out, but the angel's considerable power proves to be useless against him. The fight ends when Lady Kildare pulls him into her home realm of Faerie where he is powerless. The angel feels humiliated, but at least is free.

[Lady Entropy · Rating 4 out of 5]

While I still have the original Aria\Angela book, I quite love this victorian tale.

My only disappointment is that in trying to remove Angela's more identificative traits (namely her winged headpiece) from the images, it ends up causing some weird and ugly facial distortions of the character. I kinda wish that they had hired Anacleto to actually do this, and even redraw the angels to look less like they were out of Spawn.

For some strange reason, the werewolf friend (the narrator) appears as a blond in the opening scene, and then goes back to being black-haired for the rest of the story.

[Jennifer Bailey · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very pretty, interesting quick story. I liked it enough to go searching for previous Aria comics to read.