Devi

From Karate, Kungfu, Wrestling, Mixed Fighting Information Source

The article is incomplete or needs improvement This article covers an essential topic and is in need of expansion by contributing to Wikimartialarts. Please follow the guidelines in the Manual of Style and complete this article to the highest level of quality before continuing on smaller articles.

Devi Name Devi Author/Creator Siddharth Kotian & Mukesh Singh Publisher Virgin Comics Country India Serialized in Devi Original run Number of Volumes Onging

Devi is a comic book created by Siddharth Kotian & Mukesh Singh. The plot follows the story of the rapid decay of the city of Sitapur and its festering crime wave forged by the fearsome renegade God Bala. It has forced the divine pantheon to re-incarnate a fierce feminine warrior by the name of Devi. Taking the form of a young city girl now cast as a 'warrior of the light,' Devi finds out that her only ally is a burned-out detective who has made quite a name for himself as a hunter of the strange creatures that lurk within the city's underbelly. This comic book is a very modern take on a very ancient myth.

Synopsis

In the second century of mankind's arrival on earth, the Gods of light took up arms against one of their own. Bala, a fallen dark God, had rejected the old ways of the pantheon and sought to impose his dominion over mankind. Feeding off the forced worship of men Bala grew too powerful for the pantheon to combat alone. So the pure Gods each sacrificed a part of themselves to create a powerful entity. She is Devi. A fierce feminine warrior, stronger than the Gods themselves, she is reincarnated into the body of a human woman each time a great threat faces the Pantheon. She is the champion of the heavens, and the protector of man.

Having defeated Bala in her virgin incarnation so many centuries ago, a modern-day Devi must be reborn to combat the Dark Lord who has returned and grown more powerful than ever. He now controls the festering city of Sitapur – a metropolis of slums and perverted technology built on the ruins of the ancient city of Candaka. It is in these ruins that the greatest power is believed to be hidden – a vessel containing the energy released by the timeless prayers of man to the Gods of Light. It is called The Source, and if Bala is able to access it, complete control over the heavens and earth will be his. It is up to Devi to protect the source, and thus the Gods and all of mankind. Now in the city of Sitapur, where the mythic and modern collide, Devi is hunting Bala's demon race and being hunted by a scorned breed of assassins employed by Bala.

Her single ally is a washed up, burnt-out, alcoholic detective named Raoul who has long claimed to see the city's demons and sensed its tenuous fate, but has been dismissed by everyone because of his own dark demon-filled past. But it's Devi's fascination for Raoul, her increasing desire not to save humanity but to save him, not to exorcise Sitapur's demons, but to exorcise his, that now fuels her quest. This is not the story of the girl who wanted to be the Goddess but rather the Goddess who longed to a girl. This is the story of the divine that sacrificed it all for the fleeting feeling of being human.