Want It Got It TPB: The Demon by Matt Wagner

UPDATE: Coming Soon as a TPB at Amazon - 01/21/14: The Demon: From the Darkness

 

Writer: Matt Wagner
Artist: Matt Wagner
Publisher: DC Comics (1987 and 1992)
Includes: The Demon #1-4 and The Demon #22  

Clipped from http://thaoworra.blogspot.com: Frankly, the Wagner mini-series is quite darkly ruthless as we see what happens to Jason Blood's 'friends' who are largely not so much friends as 'people unlucky enough to meet him.'

Along the way, we learn more of the true origins of Etrigan, who his father really was, and also his half-brother, creating an almost Grecian or Shakespearian story of family and the quest not for redemption, but freedom and self-liberation.

Here, we explore what it means to be true to our true natures and yet discovering that our desired freedom might come only by fighting that same basic nature we want to express. 

Yarva Demonicus Etrigan.
Change, change the form of man.
Free the prince forever damned.
Free the might from fleshy mire.
Boil the blood in heart of fire.
Gone, gone the form of man,
Rise the demon Etrigan!