Legends of Percevan, Volume 2: The Realm of Aslor Book

Wikipedia has a pretty good summary of the story, so I won't bother here. Straczynski crafts a religious tale about a man who battles demons over his soul. Some thoughts:

* The story is okay, but the art got in the way for me ' I don't understand why a good story needs to have scantily clad ladies with prominent breasts to be a good "comic." Admittedly, it's not as bad as it could have been, but really, did the angel character need to have busty cleavage, a bare midriff, and high-cut underwear that sticks up from her low-rise jeans?
* I feel like there's a bit of religious meditation here, but the comic doesn't really go deep enough into it to help me understand the final ramifications of the story.
* I like the sub-text about people who get ignored by polite society. I've read that one of the worst parts of homelessness is the loneliness, being ignored daily by person after person. There's a good section in which several of the forgotten gather around a fire to tell their stories to one another. We come to see that they're insulating one another against the harms of the outside world. It's tough to see what Straczynski thinks about the hero's decision not to stay with the campfire people-is it bravery that they don't have? They seem trod upon, but also somewhat to blame. The segment replicates the problematic question of how to help the homeless ' how much personal blame/guilt/drive do they need to embrace themselves?
* The demons were cool, with etched tattoos all over their bodies. For all that, the big demon (Satan) was pretty well drawn, with a good set of complaints about God. It might be interesting to compare this story to Garth Ennis' Preacher cycle, both of which depict God pretty ruthlessly.