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Sandman #23
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iamrmanDream arrives in Hell in search of his former lover Nada, but finds it empty with Lucifer shutting up shop.
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Sandman #21
Dec. 18th, 2023 06:34 pmiamrmanDestiny summons the rest of the Endless for family meeting. Like most family gatherings, it consists of the siblings bickering.
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Sandman #19
Dec. 7th, 2023 05:53 pmiamrmanDream commissions an aspiring playwright by the name of Will Shakespeare to put on a play for the entertainment of the Fair Folk.
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icon_ukIt's just been announced that a special two-part BONUS episode has dropped on Netflix
It covers two stories: "Calliope" and "The Dream of A Thousand Cats"
( With the kind of cast that only someone like Neil Gaiman can summon up on a whim )
It covers two stories: "Calliope" and "The Dream of A Thousand Cats"
( With the kind of cast that only someone like Neil Gaiman can summon up on a whim )
NoScans: The Sandman TV series discussion
Aug. 8th, 2022 11:47 pmicon_ukWell, the ten episode series dropp on Friday, so even eking it out over a few days I've reached the end and wondered what other people's reactions to it have been?
SPOILERS AHOY!
( Did you find it Endlessly Entertaining - or Sleep Inducing? )
SPOILERS AHOY!
( Did you find it Endlessly Entertaining - or Sleep Inducing? )
NS: A few bits of comic book media news
May. 20th, 2020 02:30 pmicon_ukSince we have relatively few new comic books right now, how about some coverage of new comic book derivatives!
"Stargirl", the next live action series has just had it's first episode released on DC Universe for those interested. It's had some good reviews and I like the idea of the Cosmic Rod having a bit of a mind of it's own.... sort of a Toothless to Courtney's Hiccup perhaps?
Also, in a surprise move, Batwoman has lost it's Batwoman, as Ruby Rose has announced she won't be returning to the role of Kate Kane for the already greenlit second season. It has been confirmed the role will be recast, and intends to cast from the LGBTQA+ acting community. That seems a shame, I haven't seen too many episodes because I keep forgetting what timeslot it's on in the UK, but I liked what I saw of her performance.
Season 2 of "Doom Patrol" has a release date: 25th June on DC Universe and HBO Max!
Season 2 of "Umbrella Academy" will be released on Netflix on 31st July, confirmed by way of a fun trailer shot during lockdown
Neil Gaiman attracted a lot of good vibes from the release of the casting for the upcoming audio version of the Sandman comics. Which will feature James McAvoy as Morpheus, Kat Dennings as Death, Michael Sheen as Lucifer, Andy Serkis as Matthew the Raven, Taron Egerton as John Constantine, Reginald D. Hunter as John J'onzz, NB performer Justin Vivian Moore as Desire and Riz Ahmed as the Corinthian, oh and Bebe Neuwirth as a Siamese Cat. We'll also hear British character actors Sue Johnston as Unity Kinkaid, Paterson Joseph as the Demon Chronzon, Josie Lawrence as Mad Hettie, Arthur Darvill as William Shakespeare, and Miriam Margolyes as Despair. (That last could be FASCINATING, I'd never have thought of her for the role, given the sheer energy she brings to every role)
The first release in July, will include the first three volumes of Sandman; Preludes & Noctures, The Doll's House, and Dream Country.
Late addition - Henry Cavill just confirmed that the Zack Snyder version of Justice League will be released next year
"Stargirl", the next live action series has just had it's first episode released on DC Universe for those interested. It's had some good reviews and I like the idea of the Cosmic Rod having a bit of a mind of it's own.... sort of a Toothless to Courtney's Hiccup perhaps?
Also, in a surprise move, Batwoman has lost it's Batwoman, as Ruby Rose has announced she won't be returning to the role of Kate Kane for the already greenlit second season. It has been confirmed the role will be recast, and intends to cast from the LGBTQA+ acting community. That seems a shame, I haven't seen too many episodes because I keep forgetting what timeslot it's on in the UK, but I liked what I saw of her performance.
Season 2 of "Doom Patrol" has a release date: 25th June on DC Universe and HBO Max!
Season 2 of "Umbrella Academy" will be released on Netflix on 31st July, confirmed by way of a fun trailer shot during lockdown
Neil Gaiman attracted a lot of good vibes from the release of the casting for the upcoming audio version of the Sandman comics. Which will feature James McAvoy as Morpheus, Kat Dennings as Death, Michael Sheen as Lucifer, Andy Serkis as Matthew the Raven, Taron Egerton as John Constantine, Reginald D. Hunter as John J'onzz, NB performer Justin Vivian Moore as Desire and Riz Ahmed as the Corinthian, oh and Bebe Neuwirth as a Siamese Cat. We'll also hear British character actors Sue Johnston as Unity Kinkaid, Paterson Joseph as the Demon Chronzon, Josie Lawrence as Mad Hettie, Arthur Darvill as William Shakespeare, and Miriam Margolyes as Despair. (That last could be FASCINATING, I'd never have thought of her for the role, given the sheer energy she brings to every role)
The first release in July, will include the first three volumes of Sandman; Preludes & Noctures, The Doll's House, and Dream Country.
Late addition - Henry Cavill just confirmed that the Zack Snyder version of Justice League will be released next year
The Sandman (1989 series) #1
Oct. 31st, 2019 04:38 pmalicemacher
"Neil Gaiman is a writer who loves to overturn expectations, and there are ample examples of this in [the first issue]. In a standard epic quest, the hero starts out in ordinary surroundings, and then experiences some kind of shock that sends him into a shadow realm where he does battle with primal forces. In the Sandman's case, however, his ordinary surroundings are the shadow realm, because he's the personification of myths and dreams. Therefore, the shock he experiences is being dragged from his realm of mystery and nightmare to some penny-ante magician's basement. And instead of doing battle with epic forces, he remains a still and silent prisoner in that basement for seventy-two years.
"Nonetheless, this quiet experience has a profound effect on the Sandman. The extent to which it changes him isn't apparent until later in the series... and isn't something he even realizes himself. But we can deduce that a metamorphosis is occurring from visual cues, such as the Sandman looking like a fetus after he's captured; his being kept naked in a womblike glass bowl: and his feigning death to get his cage opened: after which he springs to life."
--Hy Bender, The Sandman Companion
Warning for suicide and gore.
( 'And I have showed him fear...' )
Introducing Death: Marvel & DC
May. 20th, 2019 11:52 amebailey140How different can two versions of the same figure be?
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And a fanart...
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And a fanart...
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Sandman: Thermidor
May. 8th, 2017 11:54 pmalicemacher
To commemorate the recent defeat of an extremist, intolerant French politician, here's a story featuring an earlier such figure. Warning for gore.
( 'The myths are dead [...] There is only the state, and the people.' )
Sandman: Prez Rickard in "The Golden Boy"
Nov. 11th, 2016 11:52 pmalicemacher
"[In] the summer of 1993 [...] I was still new to the U.S. and I was struck by how powerfully my friends reacted to Bill Clinton, who had become president about eight months earlier. They had been so happy when Clinton was elected, as if he was going to fix everything. And when some time had passed and he hadn't yet done the things they'd expected, they were genuinely heartbroken, as if something deeply religious had gone wrong. It seemed clear to me that they were yearning for a savior, someone to sort it all out for them. So I thought I'd do a story, in the form of synoptic gospel, in which I'd give my friends the kind of president they wanted."
-- Neil Gaiman in Hy Bender's The Sandman Companion, 182
( 'I want to make a difference' )
lego_jokerDamn, a lot of my posts in this series wound up owing themselves to The Sandman. Never would've expected that.
Anyways - Nada. She's one of the many, many unfortunate mortals throughout The Sandman who get tangled up in the games of the Endless and various other immortals, and I would say that she's the one who wound up the worst off. Granted, I've only read about half of the series, so if you disagree, please don't drown me in spoilers.
But by the end of her saga, she delivers what might be the most badass mortal moment in the series so far.
( A Queen without need for a King, behind the cut )
Anyways - Nada. She's one of the many, many unfortunate mortals throughout The Sandman who get tangled up in the games of the Endless and various other immortals, and I would say that she's the one who wound up the worst off. Granted, I've only read about half of the series, so if you disagree, please don't drown me in spoilers.
But by the end of her saga, she delivers what might be the most badass mortal moment in the series so far.
( A Queen without need for a King, behind the cut )
lego_jokerShocking as this may sound, you couldn't pay me to visit most locations in my favorite comic books, even if I had a guaranteed way back. I'm pretty sure most people here would give a loud "NO" to comics!Gotham, and even Metropolis would be a lot less fun when the inevitable supervillain attack crops up. The world of One Piece makes both those places look like freaking Six Flags. Scrooge McDuck's money bin would easily slaughter anyone who took one toe out of line (to say nothing of the man... er, duck himself breathing down any strangers' necks). Conan Edogawa's Beika City... yeah, given how often murder cases happen with random bystanders, crossing paths with Conan is pretty much playing Russian Roulette.
And so on, and so forth...
Point is, I'm not a terribly active person, and since most locations in comics are hubs of action and adventure and violence, that's kind of a problem. I was all set to just say "the malt shop from Scooby-Doo, where the most I'll have to deal with is Scooby stealing my food"...
But then I remembered one place in comics that's relatively danger-free. By which I mean that where my interests were concerned, the cost-benefit analysis was actually positive. Barely.
And so, this winds up being yet another post made possible by The Sandman.
( For God's sake, Neil, let other people have a chance! )
And so on, and so forth...
Point is, I'm not a terribly active person, and since most locations in comics are hubs of action and adventure and violence, that's kind of a problem. I was all set to just say "the malt shop from Scooby-Doo, where the most I'll have to deal with is Scooby stealing my food"...
But then I remembered one place in comics that's relatively danger-free. By which I mean that where my interests were concerned, the cost-benefit analysis was actually positive. Barely.
And so, this winds up being yet another post made possible by The Sandman.
( For God's sake, Neil, let other people have a chance! )
lego_jokerI've thought long and hard about what to put into this category. I originally wanted it to be Joker & Penguin, but then I realized that that friendship doesn't really exist anywhere except in my own head. Then I considered Harvey Dent & Bruce Wayne, but to this day, posting about anything Two-Face-related makes me feel like I'm stepping into thehefner's old underwear.
Then, it struck me.
I only began reading The Sandman last month, and already, I'm amazed by Neil Gaiman's skills as a storyteller. The longer story arcs are, by turns, confusing, rewarding, trippy, heartwarming and heartbreaking, but what I really respect is that Gaiman never lost his skill for the done-in-one. Almost every one of the longer story arcs is punctuated by a little one-shot issue that may or may not tangentially tie into the larger scope of things, and it's in these that I find the comic's most memorable bits.
Case in point: Hob Gadling, the man who might be called the anti-Ra's al-Ghul. A man of little inherent talent, who stumbled onto immortality almost totally by accident, held on to it through sheer optimism, and never rose toward any truly lofty ambitions. He's not a perfect man by any stretch of the imagination, but he never makes any particular pretensions to morality, either.
Oh, and he befriends a god in the process.
(Well, Gaiman insists that the Endless aren't gods, but it's the same principle - all-powerful, supernatural being that tiny mortals can't hope to ever fully comprehend.)
All because he woke up one day and went...
( Dream used to wonder what friendship could be... )
Then, it struck me.
I only began reading The Sandman last month, and already, I'm amazed by Neil Gaiman's skills as a storyteller. The longer story arcs are, by turns, confusing, rewarding, trippy, heartwarming and heartbreaking, but what I really respect is that Gaiman never lost his skill for the done-in-one. Almost every one of the longer story arcs is punctuated by a little one-shot issue that may or may not tangentially tie into the larger scope of things, and it's in these that I find the comic's most memorable bits.
Case in point: Hob Gadling, the man who might be called the anti-Ra's al-Ghul. A man of little inherent talent, who stumbled onto immortality almost totally by accident, held on to it through sheer optimism, and never rose toward any truly lofty ambitions. He's not a perfect man by any stretch of the imagination, but he never makes any particular pretensions to morality, either.
Oh, and he befriends a god in the process.
(Well, Gaiman insists that the Endless aren't gods, but it's the same principle - all-powerful, supernatural being that tiny mortals can't hope to ever fully comprehend.)
All because he woke up one day and went...
( Dream used to wonder what friendship could be... )
icon_ukOut this week, and I'd forgotten about it, is the first issue of "Sandman: Overture", as Neil Gaiman returns to his most extraordinary creation.
From CBR's preview and interview
Neil Gaiman and JH Williams III? Welp, that's me sold!
( And one of his creepiest creations makes an appearance )
From CBR's preview and interview
Neil Gaiman and JH Williams III? Welp, that's me sold!
( And one of his creepiest creations makes an appearance )
icon_ukFrom Neil Gaiman's Sandman series comes a unique form of punishment that only the Lord Of Stories could envisage
(Warning, below the cut lies commentary on a plot that involved rape. I don't go into graphic detail or anything, but better to warn those that it might be a trigger for)
( This is from Calliope )
(Warning, below the cut lies commentary on a plot that involved rape. I don't go into graphic detail or anything, but better to warn those that it might be a trigger for)
( This is from Calliope )
icon_ukThe origins of this posting came about when I saw this image on e-bay
I thought that this was a lovely sketch-card of Aurora and Northstar by an artist named Sara Richard.
and wanted to see more of her work...
( When I saw THESE images I knew I had a new artist to keep an eye on )
I thought that this was a lovely sketch-card of Aurora and Northstar by an artist named Sara Richard.
and wanted to see more of her work...
( When I saw THESE images I knew I had a new artist to keep an eye on )
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