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Sandman is awesome and if you disagree then fuck you.
Sandman is awesome because
Sandman loses awesome points because
I just finished the Wake and Endless Nights and am totally bummed that its over.
Sandman is awesome because
- Fucking Desire
- Delirium
- Death
- Matthew the Raven
- Destruction
- Hob Gadling
- Cain
- Merv
- The Mother Fucking Corinthian
- Seasons of fucking Mist
Sandman loses awesome points because
- A Game for You (seriously Neil Gaiman we get it, you want to make a Narnia-style story
- The illustrators for The Kindley Ones (hey guys, lets take this totally awesome climatic story, and then make it seem like an autistic drew it)
I just finished the Wake and Endless Nights and am totally bummed that its over.
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Also, Barnabus = best dog.
This post was...delightful.
Oh, and to contribute more, buy the Absolutes. Greatest things EVAR. The recolouring in the first volume is fantabulous or some other made up word since none known can express how much better it is.
Kyle
Kyle
I'll hold out for Absolute Lucifer though, so it matches my Absolute Sandman
Because he has no pennies.
Where do I go now? Nothing can really compete. It sucks.
Altough it's lees edgy and more beautifully simple.
It really competes with Sandman? I've only seen the Hellboy movie so my judgment may be a bit skewed.
Your millage may vary I guess.
Also the writing in the first volume is a little weak because it's John Byrne on script.
Also holy shit Delerium was awesome in that insane awesome way.
Lucifer has a couple minis (or is it just one) before it started. Most miss those. You didn't mention the various Death minis or if you had the Endless Nights graphic novel (I loved the beginning of the universe meeting of the stars and other cosmic entities story). I think there's a couple other random minis or oneshots for characters, like Marv, etc, for Sandman as well.
Anyone that liked Sandman will love Carey's Lucifer. So, if you were holding off or wondering, it's worth it. I doubt it'll ever get Absolute treatment either, considering it didnt even get hardcovers.
I've seen various prints of Sandman in both hard and soft covers.
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FUCK YOU
Kyle
Same thing with Rising Stars, I was all set for that omnibus collection and then it's pushed back an entire year
Edit: And Powers! FUCK YOU Powers HC 2 for making me wait this long for another hit of Powers goodness!
Daniel was in a cut scene from Infinite Crisis. Dream met up with Weasly Dodds in Mystery Science Theater. Lobo hit on death. Destiny was in the new Brave and the Bold.
And regarding Rising Stars, are you talking about a new collection or the one from a few years back?
Kyle
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Haha, I take it you mean Sandman Mystery Theatre?
Anally.
I mean this compendium, it appears to be a new updated release of the now OOP hardcover collection
Kyle
I still love the books, though. Aside from Lucifer, which I have ordered, what side stories should I read?
There's also the Sandman Presents mini-series, the best of which(IMO) are the two that focus on Thessely. I think both are in TPB form. And the Merv Pumpkinhead one-shot was a blast too. All were written by Bill "Fables" Willingham(on a related note, if you're not reading Fables yet, you should be).
Lots of stuff. Matthew the Raven was originally Matthew Cable, a supporting character in Swamp Thing who sold his soul and died during Alan Moore's run on that book, a run that also introduced John Constantine (Hellblazer), who also appears in Sandman (as do other members of the Constantine family). The Golden Age Sandman, Wesley Dodds (star of Sandman Mystery Theatre), is revealed to derive his precognitive powers from Morpheus. All of these except the last are available in trade and come really highly recommended.
Jack Kirby's really weird 1970s Sandman, superhero of the dreamworld, is both the direct inspiration for Gaiman's book and figures heavily into it. I don't know if that's available anywhere, nor do I know if it's any good. Cain and Abel were the hosts of DC's House of Secrets and House of Mystery horror comics from the 60s, although again I'm not sure if those are available anywhere. The first Gaiman Sandman story, "Preludes and Nocturnes", is totally tied into the larger DC universe with guest appearances by the Martian Manhunter, Mr. Miracle, and Doctor Destiny.
Then there are a bunch of sequel/spinoff works to Sandman - Lucifer, The Books of Magic, The Dreaming, The Children's Crusade and a bunch of others, mostly specials focused on Death and Destiny and so forth. Lucifer and TBoM are only peripherally connected to Sandman, and are generally quite good, whereas The Dreaming features most of the Sandman's supporting cast but felt like really limp emogoth fanfic. I haven't read a lot of the rest, but I'm distrustful of the Endless written by anyone but Gaiman or Grant Morrison.
Hob is basically my favorite Sandman character, and might be my most favorite character in comic books in general.
His is the only portrayal of a human-made-immortal I've ever seen that actually feels like the portrayal of a real human being to me (instead of going the "Immortality is a curse oh woe is me I would do anything for the sweet release of death why do all my loved ones keep dying
Man, I like "A Game of You" a whole lot. It didn't matter that it was a Narnia-style story, I still nearly cried when some of the characters died. Because, you know, I grew attached to them. That seems like a fine story to me.
I roped a friend of mine (who's not into comics) into reading Sandman by making him read "A Dream of a Thousand Cats" and "Three Septembers and a January" (the latter is probably my favorite issue).
I've got The Kindly Ones and Season of Mists in hardcover. I got them from the Science Fiction Book Club back in the 90's.
My copy of Season of Mists is put inside the cover upside-down and backwards. Even so, it is one of the most handsomely-bound hardcovers I've seen.