Death of the Endless

"You get what everyone gets... you get a lifetime"

I never get tired of reading (and rereading) infos about my favorite characters. One of the most interesting characters I've ever known is Death of the Endless from The Sandman comics (DC). The first thing I noticed about her was her similarities to Botan for :

• being a very attractive personification of death;




• being honest, pleasant, down-to-earth, and perky




• having a nurturing personality to people (living and non-living) they encounter




• being often completely overworked

But I'm not really comparing. Both characters are lovable and intriguing on their own way. Death immediately replaced I-don't-remember-who (if it was Rogue or Jubilee or someone else.. I really forgot ^///^) from my most favorite comics character. There's something I didn't notice on her Wiki page before:

According to Gaiman, the initial visual design of Death was based on a friend of Dringenberg's named Cinnamon. From The Sandman Companion:  “ ...so he sent me a drawing based on a woman he knew named Cinnamon — the drawing that was later printed in Sandman 11 — and I looked at it and had the immediate reaction of, "Wow. That's really cool." Later that day, Dave McKean and I went to dinner in Chelsea at the My Old Dutch Pancake House and the waitress who served us was a kind of vision. She was American, had long black hair, was dressed entirely in black — black jeans, T-shirt, etc. — and wore a big silver ankh on a silver necklace. And she looked exactly like Mike Dringenberg's drawing of Death. ”

Oh wow. That girl is so lucky. Imagine being some sort of visual inspiration of the world's #15 greatest comics character?



Something interesting about Death: "One day every century, Death lives (and dies) as a mortal, in order to understand the value of the life she takes." Now, that just made me want to reread The Sandman comics again. How I wish I have a copy of it. ^_^