It's also done in "manga" format it's digest sized and in black and white. This is the third volume in the Death series (though it's labeled #1 for some reason), and it sees Jill Thompson taking over for Neil Gaiman, Chris Bachalo, and Mark Buckingham on the series. I keep meaning to check out Thompson's, which looks much cooler than this. Sure I'm a snob, but I just don't get how this is supposed to be more fun for a kid than something that isn't a cutesified adaptation. His prose was already a little clunky and flowery sometimes, but Thompson makes it worse by treating it like Shakespeare - in the kind of lousy Shakespeare production where they don't know how to make the meaning clear through action, but they have to say all the words, so you get some goofy stage business over a soundtrack of classy-sounding gibberish. Not only is it a very weird style contrast, it literally makes no sense a lot of the time because of the way Thompson rushes through it to get to the jokes, and also because in the original book Gaiman was counting on people having already read the previous books. But trying to remake Neil Gaiman's from another character's point of view, and dropping in huge chunks of the original dialogue, doesn't work at all. Why did this have to be done? Jill Thompson could have made perfectly fine goofy big-eyed imitation-manga about whatever, and the parts of this that she wrote from scratch are pretty good for morbid children (I like the slapstick bit about gruesome things happening to a ghost who never complains).
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