Lady Death TP #1 Chaos! Comics 1990 8.5 VF+ Trade Paperback Graphic Novel

Writers: Brian Pulido

Artists: Steven Hughes

Characters: Evil Ernie, Lady Death, Matthias

The story opens with Lady Death, the Queen of all that is dead and dying, in her castle on the plane of the Endless Graveyard and she contemplates how she came to be there.Reflecting on her past, we learn that she once was Hope, a young girl in Medieval Europe during the time of the black plague. This is where Hope’s story begins, picking up as she morns her mother’s passing some ten years earlier. Her father, Matthias, is a brutal warlord and leads the town’s young men into battle until there are few left. His subjects grow increasingly uneasy with his bloodthirsty ways. Hope stumbles on her father, newly returned from battle once more, consorting with Demons. He feeds them the souls of his townspeople in exchange for a high rank in hell as one who funded the army that will defeat Lucifer.He orders Hope to bed when he sees he is discovered and she wakes the next day thinking it to be a dream, yet she recalls the incantation he used to summon the beasts from the pit.Hopes loves her…