Zarathustra

Favourite Sandman stories? Sticking with the obvious ones I can remember (it's a while since I last read it), 'The Sound Of Her Wings', 'Calliope', 'Men of Good Fortune', and 'Ramadan' all stand out for me. I know there are a good few others which I rated extremely highly, but those are the ones I recall off the top of my head.

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Which one was Men of Good Fortune?

 

My favourite Sandman story is the one with the haunted boys' school, midway through Season of Mists. Then probably Brief Lives.

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Men of Good Fortune was the introduction of Hob Gadling, and Morpheus' subsequent meetings with him for the next few centuries.

I must be one of the only people who thought a Game of You was one of the better Sandman arcs. It seemed like such an imaginative and creative story, the world crafted in Barbie's mind was a place of such wonder and delight - almost like a Gaiman homage to Through the Looking Glass.

"And we worked really hard to keep that aspect of it, because it's really what it's all about: that kind of hard-edged, hard-boiled, world-weary, cynical, fatalistic, nihilistic, self-interested [guy], with a heart. ... And I think we did. I mean, I hope so. I hope that fans of the comic don't feel that we sabotaged something that is so well-loved."

Should we send Tom to break the news to him?

Does Keanusteen think that tossing unnecessarily large words into the mix make him or the movie character seem more credible?

Fatalistic? Nihilistic? If anything, John believes in the freedom of choice of the common man, not the predetermination of God, for instance. And not subscribing to either of Heaven or Hell's doctrines doesn't make one a nihilist, in John's world of magic these precepts aren't deniable, you just don't necessarily have to follow them; which contradicts the idea of John being a fatalist.

Using big words to make you look smarter doesn't work out when you use them incorrectly.

Billions of blistering barnacles

You should put a 'don't give a shit' option on that poll. I don't have any particular dislike for Marvel's comics, but at the same time they don't produce anything on a regular basis that I'd enjoy reading.

It's simplistic in the fact that it set forth an interesting premise, although not an altogether original one, and never really expanded or explored it any farther than it had to, eventually culminating in an actionfest. It would've been far more satisfying to see Smith fall apart due to a logical paradox, for instance.

Zarathustra, I know you are probably not superman fan however there is a very interesting graphic novel called Superman: Godfall. It to me is one of the last good stories, Loeb is the only writer doing him right anymore but even he is overly simplistic. It is symbolic in so many ways with references to the change in the character to religious notions and to thus spoke Zarathustra. It is similar to the matrix movies. ya know just fyi.

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I've seen it, but I haven't read any mainstream stuff in the longest time, from what you're saying it sounds pretty alright, I'll have to get a gander next time I'm at the comic shop. I thought Alan Moore's take on the Superman from Marvelman was very much in the vein of Nietschze's philosophy though. Although the Matrix did feature Neo's 'transcendence' into the ultimate being, I don't think it was intended to follow such works, it ended up being overly simplistic not exactly adding any new depths or attempting to explore new possibilities of the philosophy.

Kind of off topic, but I thought Philip K. Dick did a much better job expanding on the ideas behind reality and what we consider 'real' in Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep?

That's what I spake.

This one's for DanKalEl:

 

I believe a man can fly.

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I don't. Oh ok i get it. hes dead dude you guys killed him.

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Huh? I don't get the "he's dead dude" part. Was it in reference to my Superman: The Movie reference?

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Sounded like a Nietschze reference...

Last I heard, by some legal technicality, he never actually had any claim to the property in the first place. Hopefully we'll be seeing some reprints in the near future.

Is there going to be a bra and panties pillow fight anytime soon?

I am new here. you can thank keanu reeves for that. And I am wondering if any of the Constantine fans are religious. It would just be interesting to see if people who advocate an anti hero who spits in the face of God would actually adhere to God.

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Hellblazer's just a work of fiction though; John's a great character who lives in a very fantastic world. While most of us enjoy his stories, it doesn't necessarily mean we advocate any of his actions, reading Hellblazer and being religious aren't mutually inexclusive.

I have Miracleman 1-13 in mint condition, so I MUST have the rest of the series. It is getting more expense as I go.

No kidding, the entire series cost me something in the range of 200 bucks off of Ebay, you gotta love that Todd McFarlane - he can screw fans and fellow creators in a single bound.

In Kimota! The Miracleman companion, Neil Gaiman states that he'd like to one day finish up the Silver Age and Dark Age arc, his ideas for the last few issues sound very fascinating.

I heard they were making terrible movie adaptations of his comics...

What, no snuggly Alan Moore?

I'll have a large

Pretty good interview, I don't suppose anyone's hosting a realaudio file or mp3 of the entire thing?

On which note, I will just say that there's a devastating teaser in a line uttered near the end of the issue, which harks back to something from a while ago which I'd almost totally forgotten about.

I don't suppose this has anything to do with a tuft of hair buried on the slopes of Heaven?

Page 7 of the first issue of Haunted, there's a kid imbibing the fumes of some sort of aersol on a bench, what exactly is he doing? I've never heard of this sort of drug abuse, particularly in light of Watfords, 'froze her lungs solid' bit.