The Many Deaths of Laila Starr by Ram V.

eaTaking on grand topics can be tricky, but Ram V. does it quite well. The Grim Reaper has been personified so often in fiction, movies, TV, and here in graphic form she is a woman who gets fired and has to reinvent herself as a timeless, sporadically immortal eponymous character following the life of a man whose invention is bound to make her obsolete.
But is the world ready for immortality…and is she ready to kill for job safety? Those are the questions this graphic novel goes after. In technicolor.
Well written, emotionally fine-tuned without overdoing it; brightly and strikingly drawn, albeit with funky faces that take time to get used to, this was a pretty enjoyable read.  I liked it much more than Ram V’s These Savage Shores graphic novel. The Indian setting provided that visual something extra for the armchair travellers and those looking to read internationally. Well done.