- Death: The Time of Your Life
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Death: The Time of Your Life 
Cover for trade paperback.Publication information Publisher DC Comics Schedule Monthly Format Ongoing series Publication date April 1996 - July 1996 Number of issues 3 Creative team Writer(s) Neil Gaiman Artist(s) Chris Bachalo
Mark BuckinghamCreator(s) Neil Gaiman Collected editions Death: The Time of Your Life ISBN 1-56389-333-9 Death: The Time of Your Life is a three-issue American comic book mini-series written by Neil Gaiman, one of many spinoffs from his series The Sandman. It was illustrated by Chris Bachalo and Mark Buckingham, and features an introduction by Claire Danes. The series ran from April to July 1996 and has been collected into a single volume.[1]
This story brings back characters Donna Cavanagh (who prefers to go by the name of Foxglove) and her lesbian partner Hazel McNamara from a previous Sandman series of stories, A Game of You.
Contents
Plot
As the story opens, Foxglove is a very successful singer-songwriter currently on a very important tour. Her relationship with Hazel is slowly unravelling, due mainly to the building pressures of her newfound fame. One night, Hazel's son, Alvie (an accidental result of Hazel's one and only heterosexual encounter), dies. When Death, personified as a teenage girl in a goth dress, shows up to take him, Hazel makes a promise in desperation. The promise is that either Hazel or Fox will take Alvie's place when Death returns, if only she will let Alvie live for a while longer. The story touches upon the pressures of living private and public lives, as well as fidelity, love, and duty.
Awards
The original miniseries was a top vote-getter for the Comics Buyer's Guide Fan Award for Favorite Limited Series for 1997.
Other Sandman spin-offs
- Death: The High Cost of Living
- Destiny: A Chronicle of Deaths Foretold
See also
References
- ^ Irvine, Alex (2008), "Death", in Dougall, Alastair, The Vertigo Encyclopedia, New York: Dorling Kindersley, pp. 54–56, ISBN 0-7566-4122-5, OCLC 213309015
Other sources
- Death: The Time of Your Life at the Comic Book DB
External links
The Sandman by Neil Gaiman The Sandman
Library1: Preludes and Nocturnes • 2: The Doll's House • 3: Dream Country • 4: Season of Mists • 5: A Game of You • 6: Fables and Reflections • 7: Brief Lives • 8: Worlds' End • 9: The Kindly Ones • 10: The Wake • 11: Endless NightsSpinoffs The Sandman: The Dream Hunters • Death: The High Cost of Living • Death: The Time of Your Life • Destiny: A Chronicle of Deaths Foretold • The Little Endless Storybook • Death: At Death's Door • Dust Covers–The Collected Sandman Covers 1989-1997 • The Quotable Sandman • The Sandman Companion • The Dreaming • Sandman Midnight Theatre • Lucifer • House of MysteryCharacters The Endless: Destiny • Death • Dream (Daniel Hall) • Destruction • Despair • Desire • Delirium
Faire Folk: Auberon • Titania • Nuala
Dreams: Cain and Abel • The Fashion Thing • Goldie • Matthew Cable • Merv Pumpkinhead • Corinthian
Humans: Fury • Hector Hall • Jed Walker • Rose Walker • Foxglove • Hob Gadling • John Constantine • Dr. John Dee • Sandman (Wesley Dodds) • Element Girl • Prez • Martian Manhunter • Mister Miracle • Dr. Jonathan Crane • Wildcat
Demons: Lucifer • Mazikeen • Etrigan the DemonCategories:- Vertigo titles
- 1996 comic debuts
- Vertigo limited series
- The Sandman
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