Death in Books of Magic and Lobo

[espanolbot.insanejournal.com]

Tim Hunter, glasses-wearing British teenage magician unaffiliated with the later Rowling creation, finds himself both dead and crashing in the apartment of Our Favourite Goth,










Tim explains that he's after his real father, leading to this conversation.














Tim returns to life, and things are resolved somewhat.

And the other cameo I mentioned, Death in Lobo...



Also, here're two more that I've found of alternate forms of DC's Death,
First, here's one from Swamp Thing vol. 2 issue 6

The story is about a woman called Maggie Brennan who suffers a head injury and becomes able to see Death, who promptly decides to marry her. Maggie then convinces him that he needs to be more merciful, and the two become aspects of death, her sort of filling in Death's role in the non-canon Captain Atom appearence.

And here's one from Weird War Tales #80,

Comments

[espanolbot.insanejournal.com]

Pretty much every DCU Vertigo book that has Death appear has used the Gaiman version. Regular DCU not to much these days.

My problem was that as Gaiman was writing his story about what the characters represented, the writer of Captain Atom decided to write what he thought that the characters meant. So Gaiman had to correct some contradictions that were made with his own characters in a book he had no control over.

[btravage.livejournal.com (from insanejournal.com)]

I think that if Gaiman expected other writers use of the character to remain consistent with his, he should have explained things better. Where in sandman does it say anything about the Black Racer, or the Black Flash. Are those characters just off limits now?

[espanolbot.insanejournal.com]

It was pretty early in the series at this point, and he hadn't gotten around to fleshing out the characters yet. He did go on to have the explain what she was and what she represented in the Element Girl story, which I'll be posting later.

She pretty much said that she WAS death, not an aspect, not a section of it like the Death of Rats, the entirety of the thing.

[sandoz_iscariot.insanejournal.com]

Doesn't Gaiman have a special agreement that the Endless characters can't be used in the Vertigo-DCU without his permission? Definitely a good way to prevent stuff like that from happening again.

[btravage.livejournal.com (from insanejournal.com)]

So are all these other bozos an aspect of her? Dream appeared to J'onnz as the equivalent God in the Martian Pantheon, why can't Death appear as the Black Racer whenever she meets a New God?