Note From the Editor: This week, Superhero Hype’s cosplay correspondent, Ashlynne Dae, is back with a fan-favorite from The Sandman . Meet Death, of the Endless. She’s probably one of the most well-adjusted characters in Neil Gaiman’s Sandman comics. Kat Dennings is currently voicing Death in The Sandman Audible adaptation . However, Ashlynne’s devotion to the character goes back much further than that.
“You get what everyone gets, you get a life.” One of my favorite quotes in all of comic history, as said by one of my most long-standing favorite characters: Death, of the Endless.
It’s easy to do a closet cosplay of a goth icon when you yourself are also a goth, but it doesn’t make it any less special to me.
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Superhero Hype Cosplay: Death From The Sandman
Superhero Hype Cosplay: Death From The Sandman #1
Death is the sweet, perky, trad-goth embodiment of one of the universe’s constants. Being a spooky babe myself, I have always loved her style, her attitude towards the end of life, and her ability to do her work with a welcoming smile and gentle explanations because it helped people accept their fate.
Superhero Hype Cosplay: Death From The Sandman #2
When I was a wee high schooler, I even dressed like Death without even realizing it! I had no idea who she was or what comic she played a supporting role in (before starring in some titles herself).
Superhero Hype Cosplay: Death From The Sandman #3
One day when I was 15, a guy asked if I was cosplaying Death. I didn’t even know what cosplay was, but I did go home and look up what he was talking about.
To my shock I was staring back at someone I saw myself in.
Superhero Hype Cosplay: Death From The Sandman #4
I had the same black, curly, big, messy hair (I used to dye it black in those days), the same heavy eyeliner (sans swirl), and wore the same outfit: a black tank, skinny jeans and winklepicker boots, right down to the very same necklace I always wore everyday for ten years, a silver ankh.
Superhero Hype Cosplay: Death From The Sandman #5
I loved that necklace so much I even got that same symbol tattooed on my back a couple years later. And here I thought I was so original. Hah!
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Needless to say I fell in love with the Sandman universe after that, and Neil Gaiman became one of my favorite authors.
Superhero Hype Cosplay: Death From The Sandman #7
So when listening to the new audiobook release of the first volume of Sandman , I was inspired to do a proper cosplay of one of my favorite goth ladies that weren’t just my clothes, even if it absolutely was a costume that consisted of just my clothes.