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Now I've just literally got this out of the college library. I have no idea what it's about, I don't even know if its the first or the last in the series. However, I am slightly disappointed in the graphics. The front cover is very interesting, so i was kind of expecting a wolves in the walls type graphic novel. however, I suppose it would have been to hard work, and perhaps too distracting. Anyway, I was airing my thoughts and if anyone could give me an overview of the whole sandman thing.
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The order of the Sandman volumes are as follows:
Preludes and Nocturnes Doll's House Dream Country Season of Mists A Game of You Fables and Reflections Brief Lives World's End The Kindly Ones The Wake And then you have Death: The High Cost of Living and Death: The Time of Your Life, as well as Sandman: The Dreamhunters and Endless Nights, tying in with the overarching story more or less independently. Hope that helps!  L&B, JJ3 L&B, JJ3 __________________________ "Egoist, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me." Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary |
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I really like seasons of mist, the thing about the sandman is Dave Mckean did the covers, but the issues all change artists. The best art comes in The Wake i think, but dont read that one until your done. If you want to see crazy art, read Endless Nights, though it isnt acctually part of the sandman story. Sandman is just a regular comic book, the art styles change from story ark to story ark and sometimes its great, sometimes not so much. |
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Well, I wouldn't exactly say that The Sandman is just a regular comic (though I know what you're getting at) because The Sandman is anything but a regular comic book experience. Read the books in order and you'll find the interior art works wonderfully with the story telling. Neil is working on a new edition of The Sandman and it's supposedly going to be recolored. I do hope so because they were still experimenting with new types of comic book coloring back then and the original is not the greatest. ~*~*~*~*~ "We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." (Pierre Teilhard de Chardin) |
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I meant in the way its built and displayed its 'regular', the writing and occassionally the art is exceptional, but its still quite simply a comic book. |
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I must admit that it's one of my favourite story arcs as well. Actually I have an essay/article written on that one, originally conceived of for a book collection on Milton in Popular Culture. It never made it into that one, but I am planning to work it over and send it to a journal who has a call for paper out for a theme issue on Gaiman's writing. So keep your fingers crossed for me guys. L&B, JJ3 __________________________ "Egoist, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me." Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary |
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*crosses fingers* |
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Thanks for the support Eldi. I just sent the article in today, so it felt good to find some support in here for it. L&B, JJ3 __________________________ "Egoist, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me." Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary |
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Good luck, Mad Swede! Let us know how it goes.
____________________________________________________________________ "Patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer i beg to submit that it is the first." - Ambrose Bierce ---------------------- A Good Scoundrel isn't Hard to Find |
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Thanks, and of course. At any rate, whether I make it or not, I think people may be interested in checking out that particular "The Comics Work of Neil Gaiman" theme issue of ImageTexT when it's published (spread the word). And it's handily enough a web published journal, so... much easier access for everyone. Here's the link: http://web.english.ufl.edu/imagetext/ L&B, JJ3 __________________________ "Egoist, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me." Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary |
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Hiya all,
thought I'd give you an update (long overdue). Unfortunately, my contribution didn't make it into the Gaiman issue of the academic web journal ImageTexT, but I'd still recommend that you keep an eye open for the issue when it comes out. And who knows... maybe I'll get the article in somewhere else at some point. Here's the link: http://web.english.ufl.edu/imagetext/ L&B, JJ3 L&B, JJ3 __________________________ "Egoist, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me." Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary |
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