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Re: Soap and Neil

2005-04-06T23:14:30+00:00

Um, you read books that have endings. Why is this different? If stuff ends, then its makers can do new stuff which will Undoubtedly be more original than rehashing different situations for the same characters/setting. I would have been very unhappy for Neil to have continued with Sandman, as much as I love it to death, if that meant he couldn’t do American Gods & Wolves in the Walls. And, as he released Endless Nights, he’s Still working on Sandman occasionally. So it’s not like it’s going to end. Just longer times between new issues. And if you accept that comic writers are mortal & as such, the original writers of whatever you like will die at some point & their scripts be picked up by others, well Sandman has already had spin-offs. Lucifer isn’t of the same quality, of course, but that’s not the issue here.

Come on! it’s really far too good not to read. And it’s so much better as a whole.

Silly feirii.

Oh, I was going to ask, Have you read Jasper Fford’s Thursday Next books (The Eyre Affair, etc.). I just got started on the third [read: I’m almost done with the third], & I KNOW you would love them.

Re: Soap and Neil

2005-04-05T23:21:01+00:00

I haven’t read all of Sandman because I can’t bear the thought that someday there won’t be any more. whimper

And then they went and changed the covers. KHAAAAAAAN!

Soap and Neil

2005-04-05T20:14:12+00:00

“Is keeping up with comic books, in the long run, like keeping up with soap operas?”

Did you some how ever think otherwise?

(With the exception of course of graphic novels that actually have an ending planned out for this millenium.)

I mean, we all read that speech from 1602 and chuckled, as it was a small too-little, too-late redemption of itself as a Gaiman work.

1602-fantastic-four-flame-guy: So what are these fundamental principles, if they are not atoms?

1602-fantastic-four-rubbery-smart-guy: Stories. And they give me hope. We are a boatful of monsters and miracles, hoping that, somehow, we can survive in a world in which all hands are against us. A world whichm by all evidence, will end extremely soon. Yet I posit we are in a universe which favors stories. A universe in which no story can ever truly end; in which there can only be continuances. If we are in such a universe, as I hope, then we may have a chance.

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I know you said you haven’t read all of Gaiman’s stuff, but for a CBG who likes een some of his work, there’s simply no excuse not to have read all of Sandman and own 1602. I mean, really. It’s like being a chocoholic and neer trying truffles. Or being an English theatre buff and avoiding The Bard entirely.

Anyway, my point is that of course Comic books are going to jerk you around. That’s of what they are made. Well, that and women who are destined for later life back pain.

I should stop before my cynical meter reaches critical level. (get it? get it?)