by Dave McKean, Chris Bachalo, Mark Buckingham, Neil Gaiman
Gaiman's cute-goth graphic short-story sensibly suggests that an awareness of and engagement with death can help us to live more passionately and compassionately. It's fun and thought provoking and attractively drawn - lovely young adult read.
A bit of fluffy fun about Death's one day each century as a mortal. Madcap and zany adventures in NYC ensue as Didi looks for Hettie's heart and shows a suicidal kid a good time. People die along the way, some songs get sung, and some toys get played with, people get record deals, Death loses her ...
Why couldn't Dream make an appearance?
The only problem is that the stories aren't long enough. There is a warmth and affection for humanity that really shines through Death.
Death was the breakout character from Gaiman's Sandman series. When it came time to do a Death miniseries the author could have done something epic like the death of the universe, but instead he chose to tell an extremely down to earth story about Death spending an ordinary day with an average teen...
this was in fact my first sandman book!read it ages ago in high school from the libraryi recently bought it's sequel so i guess it's time for a re-readfunny how i only noticed recently that it's drawn by a favourite of mine Chris Bachalo.he once did a steampunk comic, i wonder how that turned out?
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