I personally didn’t notice! Excellent video as always!

To err is human... 🙂

[Also, the groundlings in Elizabethan theatres didn't have any seats at all! They just stood in the dirt, the original Elizabethan mosh pit, right in front of the stage! At the same time the best and worst "seats" in the theatre!]

It's all good! One little mistake is bound to make its way into such content-heavy videos.

I was about to say it but saw you acknowledged it. Good on you!

Indeed, I read the graphic novels as a fashion guide when I was a youth. Glad to revisit them now with a fresh eye towards the storytelling.

I'm extra curious to see if "Dream of a Thousand Cats" ends up being adapted by the TV show. That will be a tricky episode to do, I'm sure.

@@KabukiKid why not do it all stylized animation? They did it before on American Gods ukposts.info/have/v-deo/bmdhgXtnnHl4p4E.html

I knew as a teenager that if I wanted to be cool and still read comics it would have to be something like sandman. I always grabbed sandman but always went heavy on marvel from the .50 bins

@@monolith_g it's okay to be into Marvel too, aside from Sandman's art being so graphic.... Marvel had some amazing brooding character like Silver Surfer or Adam Warlock. Or the drama of Nightcrawler's deep religious guilt complex while being haunted by his demonic look, even now looking back, those are just so amazing dramatic characters. Nightcrawler, looks like a devil and when he BAMFs it smells of sulfer, but as kids we all knew he was a good guy.

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The Kindly Ones is the best sandman issue in my opinion, the art is surreal and impressionistic and the story is so raw and emotional and vivid. Gaiman at his best

I hear ya. I read the series well over a decade ago, and my heart still hurts a bit when I think of those last few books. It's weird to say that I am both looking forward to, and dreading the end of Netflix series should it get enough seasons. Despite the changes they made, that series is bringing the story to life in a way I never thought I would see. Not sure if my poor heart could take seeing those last few books on the screen. :(

@@kristianwilliamson6527 I always start out not liking the art in The Kindly Ones, and by the end of the story being in complete awe of it. What a masterpiece

Sam Keith's hellscape is so rad!

For me, it was the first time I read a black and white paperback of Asterix in Britain. I was probably about 8. And then discovering they had the full size ones in colour in Barnsley public library. Our parents would eventually just dump us there for an hour or so to go shopping. There was no risk that we were leaving as it was the highlight of the week.

like reading tv-shows = are you that 💩head the boys TV SHOW IMPROVED TO THE COMICS !

@@eddiejoewalt7746 people usually resort to insults when they have no intelligent arguments to make

@@Neutral_Tired people usually resort to insults when they have no intelligent arguments to make = people like you are only here to comment if "arguments" like this are more in line with Street fighter and you are only the watcher and write something at excuse for your existence!

@@Neutral_Tired plus i didnt know your UKposts page have porn in it!

@@eddiejoewalt7746 The Boys TV show was never as balls to the wall as Ennis’s comic is. Even though The Boys comic is pretty tame compared to Pat Mills and Kevin O’Neill’s Marshall Law and Rick Veitch’s The Bratpack and The Maximortal as far as a skewering of the superhero genre goes. Although The Boys and Sandman is an apples and oranges comparison in the first place.

Do you remember when forbidden planet was in Denmark street?

Delirium is delightful.

@@lakrids-pibe I see what you did there 🙃

"Brief Lives," but yes, Gotta love Delirium. I wonder how many pitches Vertigo got to create a series about her, but I can see why it would be a hard character to base a series around.

I kinda wonder if he was inspired by the movie "the saragosa manuscript" for that one. I think he brings it up in American gods.

Came here to say that. It's five levels of nested storytelling (and the final one teases looping back to the middle), and it's so effortless that you realise it only afterwards.

I can remember when I read this story that I was worried that I wouldn't be able to follow it. But Gaiman managed to make the story stay traceable. After this issue, I knew that Sandman was, above all, a story about stories and their impact on life.

By the time Gaiman found his voice for the series, The Sandman became an ode to stories and the act of storytelling. It's that simple. That issue and many others reflect this. I fear tho the tv series will skew that concept entirely by focusing either on the fantastical or the horror elements of each story arc.

​@@GhostRydr1172 Stardust, Good Omens, and American Gods all show that Gaiman considers film/tv a radically different way to tell a story. I trust that the show will indeed skew the concept, but do so in a good way. Offhand, I can only remember one occasion where Dream is thoroughly stuck in reality, and that's when he's in an airliner seat, seemingly uncomfortably trying to keep his aspect moving along with the human contraption as it travels through the air (come to think of it, the time he feeds the birds, exhausted and listless, might be another). Otherwise, he is arguably never really there in reality: his body language is usually distancing, rebuffing; his size and appearance is variable, like he is slipping in and out of your memory while you talk to him; only when he appears in a retelling of a story, or when he meets Hob, does he take shape the way he does in the Dreaming. I wonder if (and how?) they will realise this in the show...

Well it might as well be, the only 2 things that stayed contestant throughout all of Sandman was the writer and the lettering, both of which are in Death

This is one of the reasons I have some trepidation about the live action show. The art was so essential to the writing that I am worried the show might lose something in the process of making it live action. That said... Gaiman did well shepherding Good Omens to TV so he has a track record of good translations. So I am cautiously optimistic about this.

@@TimothyCollins you shouldnt be, the composition in the show is dogshit

it helped that Gaiman wrote his scripts specifically to enhance the talents of the artist he was working with.

Charles Vess is a legend. Overture is packed with beautiful artwork as well; it’s worth looking up.

Those golden years of Vertigo were quite special. I gobbled them up.

Yep, it is incredibly good!!!!

Agree with the Sandman seeming intimidating. Somehow I expected it to be pretentious. Artsy with twists for the sake of twists and any meaning was an excuse instead of the motivation. And maybe I wouldn't have appreciated it at the time anyway. Not the action comic I was used to.

I did my comic reading at college, and we started with Watchmen. That taught us all the comic and superhero tropes even as it exploded them. And then Killing Joke and Dark Knight Returns. Sandman was different. We approached it with care and caution. Crikey! We approached it with reverence!

I'm still a little bit in love with Death, even after all these years. (And I have to say, the clip of Death on from the upcoming series is effortlessly spot on! IMHO, natch.)

"Three Septembers and a January" is literally my favorite issue, and one of my favorite short stories period. It's a wonderful story.

His interactions with John Constantine and confusion about the Justice Society are also pretty interesting

He was heavily borrowing from Alan Moore's Swamp Thing in those early issues. It's very well loved as well - check it out if you haven't!

yeah it's so funny to me reading later sandman having a mostly grounded story, then I remember that superman exists in this universe (Despite there being like an in universe superman comic called hyperman with its own bizarros called weirdzos)

I caught on to the fact that Sandman wasn’t actually about characters pretty quickly. Neil Gaiman is amazing writer he’s my favourite writer, but what separates Sandman from any other work that he’s ever done is that it’s about concepts not people.I never viewed Morpheus as a character, I viewed him as dreams. I never viewed death as a character, I interpreted death as death, Hob Gadling wasn’t really a character. He was humanity, growing and changing seeing the best and seeing the worst, but still deciding to progress,to go forward to never let itself die. I viewed John Dee as the unbridled human evil, what you would do if you were able to do anything. that’s far scarier than in the show,I hate how in the show they gave him a motivation. I don’t think all the writers really understood that it wasn’t about characters and motivations rather the human condition, my favourite parts of the book or not the overarching story. My favourite part of the book barely even have a dream in them but it’s when Neil Gaiman explored how dreams are like in the chapter with the captured muse or dream of thousand cats in the most devastating chapter with elemental girl. The Sandman simply is one of the greatest piece of fiction ever written.

Me too. When you really think about it, Chris' summary here is better than reading the comic itself. The reason? Gaiman's good at collecting plot points. But he enacts them clumsily. I _had_ that issue. I was stunned at how clunkily all the plot elements were thrown at each other. The art did _try_ to make it all elegant. But then I started feeling that the art & story weren't working together _because_ of all the inelegance. Like the affair with Titania & Morpheus: they're discussing it _right NEXT TO_ Oberon. If he'd gotten up to get popcorn then sat back down in his "throne drawn to illustrate their separation" *that* would have been clever. Instead, we get him announcing they won't return to this realm *as **_if_* he heard & knows about the affair, is mad, but under-reacts? This is a thing Gaiman does regularly. He gets the plot-point in, but in such a ham-handed way it's like the beginning of that story-line where Destiny gathers the family, then says "this begins here, with this family dinner, then Desire just asks Dream if he'd banished any former lovers to Hell lately. Like... that felt like Desire could have _texted_ that question to him. It's as if Gaiman wanted that setting, a plot-point & so he just put things in that setting. But it had *no further purpose.* Same with Titania & Dream's affair, it doesn't seem to be connected to Oberon's announcement, at least not the way Gaiman frames it (although I hesitate to use this example as someone will say that's Gaiman texturing the dream). In short, while Larry Hama talks about introducing plot points, then allowing the story's characters to determine where he goes with them, Gaiman seems to be the Total Opposite. He does include characters' personalities, but more or less in passing to the Plot Points. They often feel like they don't fit at all & are simply filler.

There are a lot of stories in that series. At least 100 issues across different volumes. They recently put out two omnibus volumes of it. I think a third volume is forthcoming.

One of my favorite comics

@@essaywhu Whaaa...? My local library must be holding out on me.

@@lakrids-pibe Omnibus volume 1 contains: The Books of Magic (Series 1) #1-4 Mister E #1-4 The Children's Crusade #1-2 Arcana: The Books of Magic Annual #1 Vertigo Visions: Doctor Occult #1 "The Lot" from Vertigo Rave #1 The Books of Magic (Series 2) #1-32 The Books of Fairie: Auberon's Tale #1-3 Omnibus volume 2 contains: The Books of Magic (Series 2) #33-75 The Books of Magic Annual #1-3 The Books of Faerie #1-3 The Books of Faerie: Molly's Story #1-4 Hellblazer: Books of Magic #1-2 Vertigo: Winter's Edge #1-3 Apparently, volume 3 will contain: THE TRENCHCOAT BRIGADE #1-4 THE NAMES OF MAGIC #1-5 HUNTER: THE AGE OF MAGIC #1-25 and BOOKS OF MAGICK: LIFE DURING WARTIME #1-15 So this is probably around 150 issues total. There’s a more recent series that ran from 2018 -2020 that ran for another 23 issues. So yeah, around 175 maybe after all is said and done.

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It's really amazing how well it all holds together without the visual elements. Credit to Mr. Gaiman for sure.

They are one HELL of a polished production :)

I feel it was most blunted in Dee's Diner Disaster, but that was a bit more welcome for me. Gaiman himself wasn't too fond of that issue, and was mostly just floundering to find his authorial voice until he wrote about Death. And personally, I found it a bit too gruesome and edgy without narrative stakes to the or real connective tissue to Dream and his business, despite Dee's presence. So the show actually connecting everything together and not making me feel absolutely miserable for watching it feels like an absolute win for me. So now the