Batman: the Widening Gyre 2 Preview

[espanolbot.insanejournal.com]

http://dcu.blog.dccomics.com/2009/09/24/kevin-smiths-batman-story-continues-in-the-widening-gyre-2/

This is the second reference to Sandman that I'm aware of in Kevin Smith's DCU work, Morpheus both appears and is important to the plot of Green Arrow: Hollow.

And, yeah, great City to start molesting and murdering kids in Funland. Especially considering Batman's overprotective stance towards children.

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[icon_uk.insanejournal.com]

Funland wasn't stuck in a dreaming coma though, like all the attendees of the serial killer convention, Morpheus did the opposite, he removed their ability to see themselves as the heroes of their dreams, they would always be aware of what they were, and how petty a thing that was.

Or did he show up in Sandman anywhere else?

[lissa_quon.insanejournal.com]

I don't think he appeared anywhere else in the series.

But I was under the impression that the whole thing Morpheus did to him would put the kabosh on him continuing his...being Funland. The dream sequence he had at the end of that arc seemed to suggest that.

[icon_uk.insanejournal.com]

I think it was left a little vague on purpose. It might be as you say, or it might be that they CAN still kill, and may well have the drive to, but if they do, they'll always be aware that they are killing because they choose to kill and are monsters, not because of some self delusion about their reasons.

[lissa_quon.insanejournal.com]

They specifically show Funland's dream and he asks the kids for forgiveness for hurting them. Not saying he couldn't revert back to being Funland but yea...

[icon_uk.insanejournal.com]

Doesn't the dream Funland has happen when Dream puts him to sleep whilst rescuing Rose, and therefore before Dream issue his punishment to the assembled killers?