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phantomchick asked:

I'm excited for Sandman! But I'm disappointed that Death doesn't have her eye tattoo as I love that part of her character design, if it's to do with colour palette couldn't it have been done in silver? Was there a reason for the choice to leave it out?

neil-gaiman answered:

Death doesn’t do the eye of Horus make-up (it’s make up, not a tattoo) until Season of Mists.

Here’s her initial appearance in Sandman 8

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Here she is in Sandman 13

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And Sandman 20

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She doesn’t add the curlicue until she reluctantly gets dolled up for the fancy party in Sandman 21

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Everybody involved is very detail-conscious, don’t worry.

bigscaryd

I don't know what scenario is better here:

1: Netflix social media team had this prepped for NG;

2: NG has a social media team that prepped this for him;

3: NG prepped this because he knew this would come up; or

4: NG got the ask and decided to correct the asked but, instead of just asserting "I created her and wrote the book, she doesn't have that until later," he goes and gets actual direct examples.

neil-gaiman

Option 4. It didn’t take long. And I ought to be writing right now anyway so it felt like taking a couple of minutes off.

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