“Evenson” is “Lucifer”’s version of “The Wake” — a volume for wrapping up loose ends, and making sure that all the major characters get to say farewell. In comparison to “Morningstar”, which concluded the series’ main plot arc with a rather flamboyant crescendo, “Evensong” is more relaxed, less tense, and reminds me a lot of some of the less focused Sandman stories: A nice read when seen by themselves, but not necessarily contributing much to the whole.

Of course, the main story about Elaine’s attempts to cope with her new position both feels and is quite relevant to the main story, but there’s none the less a feeling of redundancy running through the volume — and especially so in the final story, “Nirvana”, which feels so slow, so uninteresting, and so badly placed, I had some trouble getting through it. The opening story, about a storyteller contest among the centaurs of River Holt, felt almost as irrelevant, but seeing as it wasn’t placed right after Lucifer’s departure out into the void and the end credits, and as it contained some characters we’ve seen previosuly, it felt much better.

But hey, still quite worth the read and the money. The story where Gaudium and his sister must once more do the more or less omnipotent beings a favour (a story named “The Gaudium Option” :D ) was as brilliant as most of the other stories involving these two creatures, and “All We Need of Hell”, the story from issue #75, portrayed a meeting between Lucifer and his Father.

All in all a good read, I guess, although I’d probably gotten more out of it if I’d reread the rest of the series first, as I did last fall when “Morningstar” was released.