Book Review - The Furies, Mike Carey - John Bolton ***** You night find this hard to believe if you have not read any of Carey's work, but Mike Carey is every inch as good as Neil Gaiman, he has taken Gaimans character Lucifer and turned it into a brilliant ongoing series with long story arcs and superb plotting and made it every bit as good as Sandman ever was. Here he takes another character from Sandman, Lyta Hall, and subjects the poor girl to even more torment and misfortune than she suffered under Gaiman. Lyta has drifted through life since the birth and loss of her son, she lives alone with the an empty nursery for company, the only connection she feels to the rest of humankind is through casual, meaningless sex. During one of these encounters she beats her prospective lover to a pulp and winds up under arrest, and not for the first time. Seeking to reconnect Lyta joins a drama group on a tour to Greece, only to find she has become the Imago puppet of the Furies, and Chronos the Changer, father of the Titans, seems to have laid harmful plans for her. John Bolton's painted artwork is fantastic, I don't know if most of the panels are posed photographs painted over (as used by Dave McKean) or if they are just painted freehand, but the whole book is beautifully detailed and realistic. The Furies is published by Vertigo, arguably the best publisher of off the wall, adult themed comics.