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.

Comments

[neuhallidae.insanejournal.com]

Fuck, of all people they had to bring over from that series, why Funland? John Dee may have been high octane nightmare fuel, but he had the freaking ruby to make it work, which, for me, mitigated things. Funland was the kind of nightmare fuel you actually think could happen, which just makes him all the scarier.

[espanolbot.insanejournal.com]

John Dee IS in the DCU though. Just not the bony version. He was in the Legion/JLA/JSA crossover with Dream Girl and Sandman ages back.

[neuhallidae.insanejournal.com]

I know he's in the DCU, that's not my point. My point is that the fact that, horrifying as his Vertigo incarnate was, John Dee was more of a "comic book"y type villain and that made him less scary to me, whereas Funland gave twelve-year-old me nightmares, and seeing him again was not a welcome surprise.

[artnouveauho.livejournal.com (from insanejournal.com)]

*boggles*

Legion and Sandman?? Together?? These are a few of my favourite things!

...Scans, please?

[endis_ni.insanejournal.com]

I contend that Funland was far more terrifying.

Oh gods. Since I first read Sandman I've now got a small niece. I'm not sure why, but that adds an extra layer of horror on, right there.