Death: The Time of Your Life

*Death: The Time of Your Life*
Death: The Time of Your Life
	Cover for trade paperback.
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
Schedule	Monthly
Format	Limited series
Publication date	April 1996 – July 1996
No. of issues	3
Creative team
Created by	Neil Gaiman
Written by	Neil Gaiman
Artist(s)	Chris Bachalo; Mark Buckingham
Collected editions
Death: The Time of Your Life	ISBN 1-56389-333-9

Death: The Time of Your Life is a three-issue 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 the character Donna Foxglove and her partner Hazel McNamara from a previous Sandman series of stories, A Game of You.

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. The series also was awarded the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Comic Book in 1997, the first year the category was competitive.

Other Sandman spin-offs

References

^ Irvine, Alex (2008), "Death", in Dougall, Alastair (ed.), The Vertigo Encyclopedia, New York: Dorling Kindersley, pp. 54–56, ISBN 978-0-7566-4122-1, OCLC 213309015

Other sources

Death: The Time of Your Life at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)

External links

Comics Buyer's Guide Fan Awards

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[vert-high-1] Irvine, Alex (2008), "Death", in Dougall, Alastair (ed.), The Vertigo Encyclopedia, New York: Dorling Kindersley, pp. 54–56, ISBN 978-0-7566-4122-1, OCLC 213309015

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