This year, give the gift of Death. DC Comics has gotten into the habit of re-releasing some of its greatest hits in supersized, slipcased spare-no-expense formats with top-shelf production values. Now they've given that treatment to the character of Death from Neil Gaiman's Sandman comics, who starred in several miniseries of her own. Although she takes the form of a pallid, beguiling goth chick, don't be fooled: Death is also the immortal goddess of mortality. — Lev Grossman
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