I no longer worry about death, I had some haggis...

Entirely possible I have three of these, but I'll always always always buy these from the cheap bins: from 1992, Bill & Ted's Excellent Comic Book #9, "It's a Living?" Story and art by Evan Dorkin, inks by Marie Severin.

The titular duo are enjoying a most bodacious afternoon with their wives and kids, but a visit to Pretzels-n-Cheese goes heinously awry thanks to new trainee Death, who was broke and had to take another job to cover his rent and his outstanding Monopoly debt to Bill and Ted. (Who were mega-rock stars and wouldn't care, but Death had principles.) A cheese-squeezing incident gets him canned; worse, Death was also behind on his rounds, and while collecting the soul of a sad Frenchman who died, in a hilarious retelling of a classic urban legend; Death meets his replacement, Morty! In typical 90's fashion, Morty has both an 8-ball jacket, and zero sympathy for others; so he gets a lot of laughs out of assorted, admittedly funny, recently departeds. Like Death in the Seventh Seal and Bogus Journey, Morty does give the dead the chance to challenge for their soul, but does so with "three card Dante!" A sucker's bet!

Forced into retirement, Death decides to look for a new job, to have something to do; and fails miserably, but amusingly. He even gets fired drawing "Major Violence" comics...OK, that one might be with cause; but Bill admits they've bought worse comics. On a final training session with Morty, Death finally gets fed up with his flippant attitude towards the dead, and demands an inquest to fight for his job. In the Marvel U. this would bring in like Eternity and Infinity and Master Order and Lord Chaos, those guys; but Dorkin has his own! War, Fate, Nature, and Time Thumb in for Chronos. Can Death beat Morty in a reaping contest...?

Man, I'm not even sure I have this whole series, which feels like another fate worse than death. Maybe I still have time...