Wolverine #25 cover dated June 1990.
Wolverine's debt to a mobster turns into an adventure in babysitting! While waiting for assassins, he tells the tale of the boy raised by wolverines!
🧵 1/ 🧵 O narrador de Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas é um morto.
Mas Machado de Assis não esteve sozinho nessa estranha confraria literária.
Eis alguns dos mais fascinantes defuntos que tomaram a palavra na literatura mundial:
In this 1926 illustration, Death isn't a hunter seeking victims, but a weary traveler bringing light to forgotten graves.
'Allerseelen' (All Souls' Day) was published in the October 31, 1926, issue of Simplicissimus, the renowned satirical magazine of Weimar-era Germany. Artist: Wilhelm Schulz.
In the Western Christian tradition, November 2 is a day dedicated to remembering the dead. The magazine reached its readers just ahead of this remembrance day.
Notice the vessel in Death's left hand (from our perspective). It's full of golden stars! While cool tones of gray, black, and greenish hues dominate the overall painting, these shining stars provide the most prominent warm accent in the composition. But why is Death carrying stars in his hand?
The answer lies in the poem featured alongside the drawing on the same page, also written by the artist.
The poem explains that only a few stars remain in the sky. That's because Death has plucked the rest, gathering them to adorn the 'forgotten graves' - those unvisited and shrouded by wind and sand:
'....On All Souls' Day, late in the sky,
Only a few stars appear here and there.
The others, Death has plucked away;
With them, he has adorned all the graves,
Those lying forgotten far away,
Covered by sand, swept over by the sea....'
Here, Death isn't an aggressive entity. Instead, he resembles an old traveler silently fulfilling his duty, carrying light to unremembered graves. In the Roman Catholic tradition, people visit cemeteries on memorial days, leaving flowers or candles. Schulz reimagines this tradition in his artwork: stars take the place of flowers and candles, while Death himself makes up for the lack of visitors at these solitary graves.