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DEATH COMIC BOOK! THE HIGH COST OF LIVING
from the world of NEIL GAIMAN's SANDMAN
RARE and OUT OF PRINT.
HARD TO FIND COLLECTORS ITEM FEATURING THE SISTER OF THE SANDMAN, DEATH!
ORIGINAL 1st Print, 1st Edition Comic Book that was not sold in any mass market retail outlet and could only be found in comic book specialty stores. Highly desirable issue.
Features FANTASTIC DAVE MCKEAN cover.
Death the High Cost of Living, with a special SILVER INK enhanced cover.
Once every hundred years, The Sandman's sister takes the form of a human being so that she can experience life and DEATH for herself. With appearances by Mad Hettie and Mister E, following his journey home after his encounter with Death at the end of time
at the conclusion of Gaiman's Books of Magic.
The High Cost of Living is a continuation of Harvey Award-winning fantasy writer Gaiman's series detailing the cosmic duties of a loose family of seven immortals. Not quite Gods, they embody realms of psychic experience: Dream, Desire, Despair, Destiny, Delirium, Destruction and Gaiman's very popular character, Death. Reaper, yes; but Death's not very grim as she goes about her business visiting the just-about-to-die and ushering them into their new existence. In this story she meets Sexton, a teenager contemplating suicide, and they end up searching New York City to find a witch's heart (the old hag hid it centuries ago, it's a witch tradition), so the old girl can hide it again. Up pops the Eremite, an evil wizard type, out to steal Death's mysterious necklace, who makes the usual threats against life and limb. Gaiman has created a character sweetly at odds with her modbid duties; dressed like a Satanic rocker, she's as pretty as a cheerleader and even more upbeat. While Gaiman brings a gritty urban contemporaneity to the fantasy genre, the story also suffers from a TV script-like sensibility--danger-defying quips, the good-hearted overweight black neighbor, melodramatic villain. Nevertheless the combination of wry mystic immortal and MTV slacker produces an engaging chemistry. Top-notch production, and the illustration is stylishly rendered and very nicely colored.
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