The five issues in the series - which re-released as a complete collection on February 1st - follow Laila Starr, the identity assumed by the goddess Death after she is banished from the heavenly pantheon (portrayed in the series as an efficient corporation where she works by removing souls from bodies). In an age where the trailer for Marvel’s “Across the Spider Verse (Part One)” is speculated to feature animation of Mumbattan (a portmanteau of Mumbai and Manhattan), the graphic novel “The Many Deaths of Laila Starr” offers an accessible deep-dive addition to the collective imagination of the omniscient city of Mumbai as well as its storied supernatural inhabitants. The reader is immersed in Mumbai, where technology and Hindu mythology combine to create a backdrop that feels only slightly exaggerated to anyone who has ever lived in India (including myself). and illustrated by Filipe Andrade is an unexpected explosion of reflections on immortality in the modern age.
However, the reimagined mythology of “The Many Deaths of Laila Starr” by Ram V. 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.
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