The most interesting thing about each issue is that each time Laila meets Darius, two incidents happens and the way they happen was so interesting to see. The colors are essential for this, as they give each page a flash of surrealist vibrancy that translates the world through the lens of a romanticized memory. 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 omnipotent Laila follows Darius from a distance throughout his days, revealing herself at five stages of Darius’s life, from his birth to the mystery of his final days. Now Laila wants to find and kill Darius before he discovers immortality so that she could go back to God's office and become godess of death again.

There are moments in this perfectly brief story that take questions and doubts and fears I know intimately well and twist them in such a way to reveal a new insight (revelation?Just like These Savage Shores, this story was put together beautifully and by the time you get to the end, you’re all caught up with emotion. ram v’s writing is sort of boring anyways, but he really doubled down in this issue and made it absolutely characterless. 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.

Its not the destination but the journey and reading this will change your perspective about so many things. and illustrated by Filipe Andrade is an unexpected explosion of reflections on immortality in the modern age. So the skinny gist is that the goddess of Death is forced into early retirement because it looks like a baby has been born who will introduce immortality to the humans. For what is ultimately a very straightforward story with what could be considered a predictable plot, The Many Deaths of Laila Starr has immediately implanted itself in the roots of my brain. Reimagining mythology for the modern age isn’t a novel idea: my peers and I are part of the generation that was raised on “Percy Jackson,” after all.

He takes cultural ideas and beliefs, combs through them for universal experiences and sentiments, and gives them a voice that's wholly unique and maybe a little transcendent.