DC Showcase: Death

A blocked painter, close to death, is visited by a woman: Death, one of the Endless. The short fits his reckoning with the losses in his life into a single conversation with her. It is not interested in fear. It is interested in acceptance: Death here is not menacing but warm and cheerful, which is the best-known quality of the character Neil Gaiman built in the Sandman comics, and the film works to keep that tone. The form is a fifteen-minute animated short, part of the DC Showcase series and released alongside an animated feature. The palette and the line lean on the atmosphere of the comic. Sam Liu directed. Jamie Chung voices Death. Who it is for: readers of Sandman and anyone following DC's short animation series. Who it is not for: viewers wanting depth of story. It is very short, and for anyone who does not know the character its effect stays limited.