Compiled and edited by Laura Drescher
Slave of Heavens: The Veil
Part One of story arc #5, Slave of Heavens
First story reprinted in ???
First published in February 1998.
Writer: John Ney Rieber
Artist: Peter Gross
Colorist: Sherilyn Van Valkenburgh
Letterer: Comicraft
Cover artist: Sherilyn Van Valkenburgh
Constultant: Neil Gaiman
Assistant editor: Cliff Chiang
Editor: Stuart Moore
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- Page 1
- Panel 1: Uxbridge, London: Uxbridge is a village in Hillingdon, which is a borough in London. I didn't find a St. Andrew's Church in Uxbridge in Yahoo, but that doesn't mean it isn't there.
- Panel 2: The first appearance of Auntie Blodwyn. She was first mentioned in ???
- Page 9
- Panel 6-7: Holy water removes glamours?
- Page 12
- Panel 1: The Encyclopedia Mythica has this to say about Charon: "Charon is the ferryman of the dead in Greek mythology. The souls of the deceased are brought to him by Hermes, and Charon ferries them across the river Acheron. He only accepts the dead which are buried or burned with the proper rites, and if they pay him an obolus (coin) for their passage. For that reason a corpse had always an obolus placed under the tongue.
Those who cannot afford the passage, or are not admitted by Charon, are doomed to wander on the banks of the Styx for a hundred years. Living persons who wish to go to the underworld need a golden bough obtained from the Cumaean Sibyl. Charon is the son of Erebus and Nyx. He is depicted as an sulky old man, or as a winged demon carrying a double hammer.
- Page 13
- Panel 1: Vintage Fooker MD-1: Have any information on this? Let me know.
- Page 17
- Panel 6: The water is littered with things from Tim's past- the television, Mr. Hunter's armchair, and the car from the accident that Mary Hunter was killed in.
- Page 20
- Panel 3: Stygian Air: The only thing I can find about this is that Cheron ferries people across the river Styx, which shares the first three letters. The river Styx separates the world of the living form the world of the dead, and its name comes from the Greek word for hate. Thus, the river Styx is the river of hate.
- Panel 7: Tim's shirt reads "I went to the Dark Tower and all I got was this lousy shirt."
- Page 23
- Panel 2: Avalon is a mystic island where King Arthur was taken to be healed.
- Panel 3: Angharad who tells the same story over and over:
- Page 24
- Panel 9: I'd say that the lie is in Panel 3.
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.
was the source for information regarding Cheron, Avalon, and the river Styx.