Bro everyone needs to stop what they're doing and read this fucking Sandman series
I just finished issue 38 out of 75 and this shit is so cool. The way they intertwine both history and mythology is amazing, plus they keep bringing back things from previous issues that I thought were just little throwaway plots and turn them into bigger things, the continuity is insane.
I don't remember the issue, but one of my favorite ones was about this guy in like the 1390s I think that boasts about not accepting death so therefore he's immortal. Well Death (the sister of Dream who is the main character) allows Dream to keep him alive or something as long as he doesn't accept death (I don't remember the minutae) so Dream tells the dude he's right and he won't die, so in exactly 100 years they should meet again at the place they were at. Sure enough they meet again and the dude is super excited that he's confirmed immortal. They agree to meet every 100 years and the guy goes through so many ups and downs, but even when he's been really fuckin' abused by life he still wants to keep living bc "there's so much to do still." Eventually it's the 1890s and they meet and the guy accuse Dream of doing this because Dream is lonely and calls himself Dream's friend. Dream gets emotional (he's very emo) and storms out and the guy yells something like "If I see you in 100 years it will be because we're friends" then the main story starts happening and Dream has been through A LOT of shit by the time we get to the 1990s and the issue ends with him showing up with a bottle of alcohol and he calls the dude his friend
Anyway, y'all should read this shit