Death: The High Cost of Living
DC · 1993 · 3 issues
About the series
In 1993, Neil Gaiman and Chris Bachalo spun Death away from The Sandman for her own three-issue DC miniseries, Death: The High Cost of Living. Once a century, the anthropomorphic personification of Death walks among mortals for a single day, and this story follows her as the goth girl Didi, sharing a strange, poignant twenty-four hours with a lonely teenager named Sexton and the eccentric denizens of London. A warm, philosophical meditation on life and mortality, it introduces key figures like the timeless Mad Hettie and the future Foxglove, cementing Death as one of comics' most beloved and human embodiments of an eternal concept.