The Long Dark Night of the Soul Even a Grim Reaper can go stir-crazy.
Mortimer the grim reaper Magician goes stir-crazy while trying to do his job of judge of the dead.
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Danse Macabre The Show Must Go On
When stage magician Blake Alexander aka Blake Fire who has a grim reaper for a soul senses someone in his audience is going to die he dances between life and death to not collect them with all his strength he must live and not take them to the afterlife because when his soul is released his body dies and he can't die on stage in front of the world let alone come back to life.