Now that I see it, I can't unsee it.
Or how about...
If you're going to play a comicbook character, let it be all the really great ones. How about making Lucifer your next big-budget fantasy series, HBO?
And if you've never read Lucifer, why not give it a go? In my mind, it truly rivals Sandman in its scale and awesomeness.
"['Lucifer'] deals with things that are important to me in terms of the nature of belief and how belief impacts on your life, along with the importance of family and family structures. 'Lucifer' is about the big cosmic struggle but on a smaller level it's about family and how within family, there is a kind of dialectic of freedom and control. It's all summed up by the relationship between Lucifer and God- God is his father and Lucifer is like any son, he wants to be himself and wants to be the author of his own life. The trouble is when your father is God, everything is controlled by your father and the autonomy that Lucifer seeks is elusive. It's about that struggle, that never ending quest to be yourself.
- Mike Carey himself
ETA: OMG THIS INTERVIEW IS PERFECT (especially the bit where he talks about matter/entropy and mind/complexity and I'll just shutupnow):
"[Lucifer is] the ultimate solipsist - the guy who'd burn the world down to light his cigarette. He's not cruel, particularly - although he's capable of cruelty - he's just so focused on his own goals and his own needs that nobody else exists for him. It's fascinating to see how that plays out, and how he affects the people who cross his path. [...] That solipsism makes him appallingly dangerous, but he's not evil in the sense of wanting destruction or harm for others. All of which is really just casuistry, because I think total self-absorption is probably the root of most evil that we meet in the world - and so Lucifer can stand quite well as the embodiment of whatever it is that makes us see someone else's life as less important than our immediate comfort."
ETA 2: And finally, THIS.
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