The Many Deaths Of Laila Starr is a rare comic book experience. The five-issue miniseries from Boom! Studios was written by Ram V, with art by Filipe Andrade, color assistance from Inês Amaro, and lettering by Andworld Designs. It was released in 2021 and quickly became a critical favorite. The book was nominated for an Eisner, a Harvey, and a Ringo award, its amazing word of mouth led it to become a top-selling graphic novel that ran through its original print run rather quickly. The premise is simple – the Hindu goddess of death loses her job because a human is born who will create an immortality formula. She’s given a human body – that of Laila Starr – and sent to Earth, where she decides to try and kill Darius Shah before he can create the cure for death.The story follows Laila and Darius throughout the years, as Laila begins to understand humanity in a way she never had before. It is brilliantly written and beautifully illustrated, a comic that will stay with the reader long after they’ve finished it. However, looking at just the synopsis, it can feel like a story that one would see in The Sandman, the seminal series that often dealt with life, death, and how godlike beings interact with both. There’s definitely something to the comparison, but the glory of The Many Deaths Of Laila Starr is that while it definitely has a feel like The Sandman, it does it on its own terms.The book is illustrated by Brazilian artist Filipe Andrade, and Andrade’s style is part of what makes the book so great. There’s an otherworldliness to his figures that perfectly fits the tone of the book. His art in the book is very much stylized – it doesn’t look like anything else out there – but he’s also able to capture the emotion of every scene, cutting through everything to the raw human feeling. His background and details are on point as well, bringing readers into the story in a way that another artist couldn’t. The Many Deaths Of Laila Starr has a fairy tale quality in many ways, and Andrade’s art plays into that perfectly.
The Many Deaths Of Laila Starr is a rare comic book experience. The five-issue miniseries from Boom! Studios was written by Ram V, with art by Filipe Andrade, color assistance from Inês Amaro, and lettering by Andworld Designs. It was released in 2021 and quickly became a critical favorite. The book was nominated for an Eisner, a Harvey, and a Ringo award, its amazing word of mouth led it to become a top-selling graphic novel that ran through its original print run rather quickly. The premise is simple – the Hindu goddess of death loses her job because a human is born who will create an immortality formula. She’s given a human body – that of Laila Starr – and sent to Earth, where she decides to try and kill Darius Shah before he can create the cure for death.
The story follows Laila and Darius throughout the years, as Laila begins to understand humanity in a way she never had before. It is brilliantly written and beautifully illustrated, a comic that will stay with the reader long after they’ve finished it. However, looking at just the synopsis, it can feel like a story that one would see in The Sandman, the seminal series that often dealt with life, death, and how godlike beings interact with both. There’s definitely something to the comparison, but the glory of The Many Deaths Of Laila Starr is that while it definitely has a feel like The Sandman, it does it on its own terms.
The book is illustrated by Brazilian artist Filipe Andrade, and Andrade’s style is part of what makes the book so great. There’s an otherworldliness to his figures that perfectly fits the tone of the book. His art in the book is very much stylized – it doesn’t look like anything else out there – but he’s also able to capture the emotion of every scene, cutting through everything to the raw human feeling. His background and details are on point as well, bringing readers into the story in a way that another artist couldn’t. The Many Deaths Of Laila Starr has a fairy tale quality in many ways, and Andrade’s art plays into that perfectly.
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