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Neil Gaiman is an axiom. Or perhaps a kind of totem. He’s certainly been a comic book character, several times, even occasionally in stories to which he had no preexisting relationship.

Witness: Donna Mia, an intended four-issue miniseries created by one Trevlin Utz and produced with colorist/sometimes-inker Eric Olive for Dark Fantasy Productions, which appears to have been active in comics publishing from 1994 to 1997. Only two issues were actually released, spun off from the publisher’s Dark Fantasies house anthology, wherein the Donna Mia character — an escaped succubus apparently fused with a medieval Italian girl — made her funnybook debut. As you might imagine, only Neil Gaiman could possibly handle such a life’s story, so there he sat in the titular miniseries, covers by Michael Wm. Kaluta, variant red foil edition available with bonus centerfold, all shades and leather jacket and iconic and astonished at the super-secret sexy origin. You might call it a ‘bad girl’ comic.

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