Compiled and edited by Laura Drescher
Slave of Heavens: Inconvenience, Be Not Proud
Part Four of story arc #5, Slave of Heavens
First story reprinted in ???
First published in May 1998.
Writer: John Ney Rieber
Artist: Peter Gross
Finishes: Richard Case and Temujin
Colorist: Sherilyn Van Valkenburgh
Separations: Jamison
Letterer: Comicraft
Cover artist: M.W. Kaluta
Constultant: Neil Gaiman
Assistant editor: Cliff Chiang
Editor: Stuart Moore
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- Title
- "Inconvenience, Be Not Proud" is a reference to the poem "Death, Be Not Proud," by John Donne.
Here is the entire poem:
"Holy Sonnet X"
by John Donne
Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;
For those whom thou thinkst thou dost overthrow
Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be
Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow
And soonest our best men with thee do go
Rest of their bones and soul's delivery.
Thou art slave to Fate, Chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell,
And poppies or charms can make us sleep as well
And better than thy stroke. Why swellst thou then?
One short sleep past, we wake eternally,
And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die!
- Page 5:
- Panel 3: Cyril's doll is talking about Lacey, the nine inch fashion doll who is Tim's world's version of Barbie. We saw Laceys in the Playgrounds story arc.
Page 10:
Panel 2-3: Of course the Four Horsemen of the Apocolypse are really War, Plague, Famine and Death.
Page 11:
Panel 2: "Torquing" means to cause to twist. And in this context, it makes just about as much sense as the rest of the stuff Slaggingham says does.
Page 19:
Panel 6-7: But her balloons are white.
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.