As a tribute to the greatest comic ever made today’s column will be a presentation of the Endless, the 7 members of the greatest family ever written about (ok, I’ll try to chill out). Less talk and more pictures, these are the Endless:
Destiny: The elder brother of this family Destiny is appeared as an old man dressed in brown robes with a book chained on his hand (or him chained to it). He is walking in his garden, a vast maze in which when you walk forward there are countless different ways but when you look back only one path exists, reading the book where everything that happened, happens or ever will happen is written.
Despair: A short, fat, grey woman who rarely speaks, she wears a hooked ring (her emblem) which she uses to carve herself. She lives in a realm full of rats and windows, each window looking through a mirror where someone watches himself without hope, doomed to end under her influence.
Delirium: One of my personal favorites, she is the youngest one of the Endless. Once she was Delight, now a half crazed, eccentric girl that constantly changes appearances, her hair always in a different style and her eyes another color in every picture. Even her text expresses the instability of her character, wavy colorful letters spilling out and dancing in every page. She seems to know things the other Endless don’t, and that knowledge pushes her to insanity.
Desire: Beautiful, merciless and without a specific gender he/she is Despair’s twin sister/brother. She/he seems to have a grudge against Dream and he/she misses no chance to give him a hard time. Her/his emblem is the heart shape and his/her realm a large human body with a gallery in the heart.
Destruction: An extremely large man with red hair and beard this is one of the most mysterious of the Endless, his first appearance in the series comes after many issues. Having a sword as his symbol Destruction creates and destroys things because it is the only way the world can go on, but his artistic talent are not quite developed as he’d like. Centuries ago he abandoned his responsibilities as an Endless and fled causing much conflict in the family.
Death: My favorite, the most charming gothic character ever created in art. She is a beautiful young girl dressed in black with an ankh as her sigil, always present twice in every being’s life, in its birth and death. She is a kind and loving person, optimistic although the grim of her business, she is the one that will settle the table and close the door behind her when the last creature will end.
Dream: The main character of this series, Morpheus, the lord Kai’Ckul, creator of stories and shape shifter. He is a tall, extremely thin man with black hair and eyes with his helm as an emblem (created from the bones of a dead god). He once was cruel and insensitive but during the series he changes and faces the results of his previous harsh decisions.
What, you need more to get excited about this? This is a story you start for fun and end up reading it again and again because you need it, it’s addictive, it’s Sandman!
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Today’s comic suggestion will be a somehow alternative one, not in a groundbreaking or exclusive sense but just because it presents a decent story in a mayhem of mediocrity. I never really liked all those Elsewords comics DC occasionally publishes (or the Marvel What If? for what it’s worth), indifferent stories that apart from the profound shock of reading a medieval scenario with Count Superman fighting Rasputin and vicious aliens had nothing else to offer. Batman – Nosferatu written by Jean-Marc and Randy Lofficier and illustrated by Ted McKeever was something really different, not a masterpiece but still an issue I’m happy to hold on my bookshelf.
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