Awesome Art: Plenty of amazing (and some not-so-amazing) artists have lent their talents to this series over the years, but the overwhelming majority of fan praise usually goes to Lee Bermejo's ◊ short-lived contributions.Later in Hellblazer, we find out that the Second and Third of the Fallen, two beings who claim to be equal to the First, were fabrications created by God as insiders to Hell's internal politics, so how can we be sure that the First isn't something similar? He openly flaunts the laws everyone in Hell goes by, but is that because he made the rules and therefor feels no moral obligation to adhere to them, or has he spent so long convincing everyone that Hell was his idea that even he started believing it? Considering The Sandman establishes the idea that belief shapes reality and that all of the gods and mythical beings in the DC Universe are the products of shared belief, any of these options are equally valid. Is the First of the Fallen's origins and level of power really everything they say, or is he just another demon who managed to convince the rest of Hell's Hierarchy that he's more impressive than he really is? In The Sandman (1989) and the Lucifer spinoff, Lucifer Morningstar (or any of the other related characters) don't even bother mentioning the First of the Fallen and his place in the cosmos, almost as if he was far lower in importance to the universe's hierarchy and wasn't worth mentioning at all. When we see the First of the Fallen during the events of Hellblazer, he is portrayed as a conventionally evil Satan who is every bit of the Evil Incarnate people associate with the Devil, in contrast to Lucifer's Chaotic Neutral approach to life.

Alternative Character Interpretation: Supposedly, the First of the Fallen was one of the first things God had created, acting as a sort of conscious of God's shoulder before God petulantly banished him, having dwelled and ruled over Hell long before Lucifer Morningstar fell.

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