Death: The Time of Your Life

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 Buckingham
Creator(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.

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.

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

• The Sandman spinoffs

References

Other sources

• Death: The Time of Your Life at the Comic Book DB

External links

• Comics Buyer's Guide Fan Awards