This graphic adaptation of Gaiman's short story focuses on what may be the original murder, back before Cain and Abel, to the angels who were creating the concept of death. The tale of this angelic death comes to the story's narrator via a wandering possibly homeless man during the narrator's weeklong forced layover in Los Angeles. The wanderer claims to be the angel that investigated the murder, and tells the story as payment for a cigarette.
In less capable hands, this whole story could be put down to a crazy man's ramblings. But when Gaiman tells this sort of story — actually, any sort of story — the impossible becomes possible and the unbelievable becomes likely true. While Russell's artwork doesn't really detract from the story, it doesn't add much either, particularly because so much of the angelic environment cannot be shown. I would love to hear this as the radio play that Gaiman originally created though.
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