The Sandman

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I rented Endless Nights out of the library...I loved it! I'm glad he did another book.

Now I'm off to amazon to see which one volume seven is.

Brief Lives...that is my next book to buy.

Mine is the whole thing I love the story

Mr. punch is a story about the childhood memory of a grandfather and the quiet maturity that comes from seeing the things adults try to hide from children. Interwoven inextricably is the story of "The Tragical Comdy or Comical Tragedy of Mr. Punch", a traditional English tale with centuries of history. There is no proper American cultural equivalent, and without that tradition I thought I was ill-equipped to understand the depth of the story. While I am certain it is a different experience for an American reader than an English, this subtle, powerful tale has a poignancy that bridges any gap of social anthropology. Its really good


Also have you heard of the movie he is making Mirror or mask
you can look at it on his website neilgaimen.com

My favorite is brief lives. I really like the destruction character and barnabas the dog.

I own "kindly ones" and one other one that is a compilation of storys about the endless.

Gaiman rocks!

Man, the Sandman is the first comic that I got really really into! bummed it off a friend who had the entire collection... then I picked up the two Death books, the book he cowrote with that japanese painter and when that new hardcover collection of Sandman stories came out I bought it for my friend as a xmas present (and of course read it after he did )

for the next year or so after that I was really into the Vertigo line, read all of Preacher and Transmetropolitan which were both great series! I tried 100 Bullets and got a few of the Trade Paperbacks in that series... the series didn't really stick with me, it varies in quality methinks, very up and down. Then got Alan Moore's two big works Watchmen (Watchmen is a freakin' great great GREAT comic!! !) and From Hell, tried some of his Swamp Thing series (which I HATED) and Hellblazer, which come to think of it I should try to read more of. I tried a few other mature-themed comics from other lines but nothing really stuck.

Nowadays I will on very rare occasions get in the mood to read a Batman comic (or something else from the DC superhero line) and *ahem* 'acquire' it, but I don't do that very often.

Preacher is cool...I liked the book that flashed back to his childhood, with his crazy grandma, and inbred family.

Yep, it's in combination with Dave Mckean and Jim Henson Studios.

It looks.. interesting. There is a book out with some of the movie stills and a lot of the sketches and script. I'm a little leary of how Mckean's artwork is going to look when it's animated, especially when interacting with the actors.

I've been waiting for that movie to come out for ages!

I first got into Neil Gaiman because of my English teacher at school. She was a big fan, and when the TV show "Neverwhere" was on she told us all to watch it so we could disscuss each episode the next day. I still remember that show...really weird and surreal!

They had a t.v show why wasn't I informed

It was a miniseries aired by the BBC, I believe. It is available on DVD.

It was rather low budget, I personally did not really like it, to be honest.

Gaiman wrote the script for the miniseries before he wrote the book. After finished the miniseries, he felt rather disapointed in all the compromises and changes he had to make, and decided to write the novel the way he had imagined the series should have been.

I have very vague memories of the show, I remember liking it at the time, but it was a LONG time since I've seen it.

Ive never red any of em, but ive herd the series described and it sounds quite intersting.

You can't say Graphic Novels anymore, its not pretentious enough. you have to say Periodical Visual Narrative.

Haha, the one I've been hearing a lot is "Sequart" or "Sequential Art"
I doubt that will ever be topped in the pretentousness department

wtf?