When it comes to
anthropomorphizing the stages of human existence, everybody loves Death. No one
has much time for colicky Birth or the awkward advances of a pock-faced
Puberty, but in art, skeletons and scythes are always in. Part of it's the
irony, part of it's the macabre, but perhaps the largest appeal of turning the
End Of All Things into a Halloween costume is the struggle to normalize the
unfathomable. In Death: A Life, the Grim Reaper tells his story for the first
time, from his early days in the Garden of Eden to his wild nights with the
Four Horsemen (Plus One). With the help of human author George Pendle, Death
tries once and for all to set the record straight, and show the personality
behind the personification.
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