Compiled and edited by Laura Drescher
The End
First story reprinted in ???
First published in January 1998.
Writer: John Ney Rieber
Artist: Peter Gross
Colorist: Sherilyn Van Valkenburgh
Letterer: Comicraft's Liz Agraphlotis
Cover artist: Sherilyn Van Valkenburgh
Constultant: Neil Gaiman
Assistant editor: Cliff Chiang
Editor: Stuart Moore
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- Page 1
- Panel 1: I have no idea what he's talking about. Got an idea?
- Page 3
- Panel 1: Khara did kind of imply that that was what he should do with it, back in Issue 42.
- Panel 4: Looks like he can't tell that he's pretty badly sunburned, either.
- Page 4
- Panel 1: Just your everyday crazy person, I think.
- Panel 3: Dwarf Sandinistas from Mars. Great band name.
- Page 6
- Panel 1: Her. Interesting.
- Page 9
- Panel 3: Chamiel: May be an error for Chamuel, whom The Encyclopedia Mythica lists as one of the Archangels. However, other lists I found of the seven archangels did not list Chamuel. See my page on angels for more.
- Panel 4: Taking a moment out for semantics? Bizarre.
- Page 13
- Panel 3: This is sort of a parody/reference to the poem Childe Roland To the Dark Tower Came. See the poem here.
- Page 16
- Panel 1: Asuras, in Hindu mythology, are powerful beings who are opposed to the devas (gods, near as I can tell). The Encyclopedia Mythica says, "In early Vedic times, they were originally another class of gods... By the end of the Vedic period, however, the asuras had attained their more demonic role." Not all of them seem evil, however.
- Page 24
- Panel 1-on: Funny, here it seems like the right choice.
Contributors include:
Greg Morrow is the editor of the Sandman Annotations, whose format and legal information I have used here.
Sascha Segan inspired me with his page, Suburban Mythos: The Books of Magic, and helped me begin these annotations.
The Encyclopedia Mythica was my source for the information on asuras.