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Из разряда "почему я не сделал это раньше?": скачал Death Gallery. Как ни странно, больше всего впечатления произвели не картинки, а интродакшен от Геймана, я даже приведу его здесь:

She arrived in my head about a week after her brother. He had arrived brooding, quiet, pale and gaunt; and while there was indeed a definite family resemblance, she was in many ways his opposite: sensible, delightful, nice. Mike dringenberg was at that time the inker of SANDMAN (Sam Kieth was pencilling). He read my description of Death in the original SANDMAN outline and decided that she should look less like a young Nico or Luise Brooks (as I'd suggested) and more like his friend Cinnamon. Mike did a drawing of her - the same drawing that appeared as a pinup in SANDMAN, and later as a t-shirt and a watch face. The day the drawing arrived in England, I had to meet Dave McKean at a London Pancake house: he was to show me transparencies of the first few SANDMAN covers. Our waitress was Death: skinny and pale and effin and sweet, with long dark hair and black clothes, and a silver ankh. I nearly showed her Mike's drawing, but then decided not to. There's a tale in Caballa that suggests that the Angel of Death is so beautiful that of finally seeing it (or him, or her) you fall in love so hard, so fast, that your soul is pulled out through your eyes. I like that story. There's an Islamic story that declares that the Angel of Death has huge wings covered in eyes and that as each mortal dies one of its eyes closes, just for a moment. I like that story too, and take pleasure in imagining huge wings and a ripple of ever-opening ever-closing beautiful eyes. And there's a touch of wish fulfillment in there too. I didn't want a Death who agonised over her role, or who took grim delight in her job, or who didn't care. I wanted a Death that I'd like to meet, in the end. Someone who would care. Like her.

Собственно только такое трогательное вступление и удержало меня от первого импульса сохранить удачные картини и удалить всё это на фиг, потому что большинство из изображений в галерее в лучшем случае какие-то странные, а в худшем - откровенно страшные. Вам бы не хотелось, чтобы так выглядел ваш любимый персонаж. Но и без хороших экземпляров тоже не обошлось, можете сами заценить:

Вы ещё не прочитали Сэндмена? Тогда мы идём к вам!