"Girls can be anything they want to be! Even the anthropomorphic
personifications of aspects of the universe!"  Death: At Death's
Door is an American Japanese-style comic by Jill Thompson (of
Li'l Endless fame) following the adventures of Neil Gaiman's
proto-perky goth, Death.  The story is set in parallel to the
Season of Mists' storyline in Gaiman's The Sandman. Through a
series of unfortunate events, Lord Morpheus has found himself in
possession of the key to the main gate of Hell following the
retirement of that smooth devil, Lucifer Morningstar. Hell's
denizens have been released to the four winds, demons and damned
mortals alike. With a whole bunch of dead mortals suddenly
without their afterlife of choice (that's how it works in the
Sandman universe), Death finds herself in quite a kerfluffle: as
was shown in Chapter 4 of Season of Mists, the dead of Hell are
coming back.  Apparently while there are some instances of the
dead returning to their bodies and walking around again, a vast
majority of the de