Death update
Mar. 24th, 2006 10:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylNo, Coventry has not — yet, at least — driven me to thoughts of suicide. No, I'm talking about Neil Gaiman's Death comics spun off the original Sandman series, y'know, the ones featuring Dream's chirpy, Mary Poppins obsessed sister.
The High Cost of Living has it that Death of the Endless becomes moral for one day in every century so that she can learn more about the people whose lives she has to take, to learn what makes them tick.
Incarnated as Didi, a New York goth chick whose parents have recently died in a car crash, Death hooks up with a grumpy, suicidally bored teen called Sexton and they get tasked with recovering Mad Hettie's heart. After meeting up with Hazel and catching Foxglove's first gig, they get cornered by a creepy magician called the Eremite and Didi's ankh gets stolen. With the help of Mad Hettie and hindrance of a bunch of broken toys, they skip out of bad guy's clutches and head off to pick up a couple of bagels for breakfast and to snag a replacement ankh. Her day up, Didi heads off on her sweet way, leaving Sexton happier and Mad Hettie with her heart.
The comic closes with a short anti-AIDS pamphlet drawn by Dave McKean — amusing, unpatronising, educational, informative and way better than those Thatcherite iceberg ads. Ouch. I think that dates me. Carbon dates me, perhaps.
Time of Your Life is set five years after the events of High Cost. Foxglove is now a big time rock chick, spending most of her days on the road, while poor old Hazel is stuck in LA looking after her son Alvie and pretending to be Fox's secretary. All in all, things don't look good for our happy couple.
After Foxglove's manager passes on a message from beyond the grave, Fox freaks out at film premier and drags her bodyguard Boris (real name Endymion) and her bogus date for the evening, across the country to LA. She discovers Haze and Alvie are missing and sets off into Death's Realm in an attempt to get them back. After striking a bargain, our heroines head off into the happily ever after of anonymous obscurity, a place so obscure that the supermarket tabloids have taken to telling tales of Foxglove and Elvis dueting together in distant corners of the US.
Verdict: a nice little pair of comics that do a nice job filling in some of the details of Hazel and Foxglove's lives both before and after the events of A Game of You. The art is beautiful, the stories are interesting, the characterisations elegant, what more could a person want?
The High Cost of Living has it that Death of the Endless becomes moral for one day in every century so that she can learn more about the people whose lives she has to take, to learn what makes them tick.Incarnated as Didi, a New York goth chick whose parents have recently died in a car crash, Death hooks up with a grumpy, suicidally bored teen called Sexton and they get tasked with recovering Mad Hettie's heart. After meeting up with Hazel and catching Foxglove's first gig, they get cornered by a creepy magician called the Eremite and Didi's ankh gets stolen. With the help of Mad Hettie and hindrance of a bunch of broken toys, they skip out of bad guy's clutches and head off to pick up a couple of bagels for breakfast and to snag a replacement ankh. Her day up, Didi heads off on her sweet way, leaving Sexton happier and Mad Hettie with her heart.
The comic closes with a short anti-AIDS pamphlet drawn by Dave McKean — amusing, unpatronising, educational, informative and way better than those Thatcherite iceberg ads. Ouch. I think that dates me. Carbon dates me, perhaps.
Time of Your Life is set five years after the events of High Cost. Foxglove is now a big time rock chick, spending most of her days on the road, while poor old Hazel is stuck in LA looking after her son Alvie and pretending to be Fox's secretary. All in all, things don't look good for our happy couple.After Foxglove's manager passes on a message from beyond the grave, Fox freaks out at film premier and drags her bodyguard Boris (real name Endymion) and her bogus date for the evening, across the country to LA. She discovers Haze and Alvie are missing and sets off into Death's Realm in an attempt to get them back. After striking a bargain, our heroines head off into the happily ever after of anonymous obscurity, a place so obscure that the supermarket tabloids have taken to telling tales of Foxglove and Elvis dueting together in distant corners of the US.
Verdict: a nice little pair of comics that do a nice job filling in some of the details of Hazel and Foxglove's lives both before and after the events of A Game of You. The art is beautiful, the stories are interesting, the characterisations elegant, what more could a person want?
