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laughing_tree
And then life happened, and one day I mostly wasn't writing comics anymore. I didn't have time and, mostly, didn't have the smallest inclination. It would, I told people who asked, take something very special to get me to make the time to write something for comics. Or even, truthfully, to write something I didn't own... Then the phone rang and Dan DiDio asked if I would like to write a Batman story. -- Neil Gaiman
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laughing_tree
It’s one of those things where the weirdest part of this for me is knowing that I’ve had the last issue in my head since the beginning. I could write the last page of it now. What’s so strange is the idea that, in the next few years, it will be done and I will be one step further toward the grave. -- Neil Gaiman
Content warning: Child abuse
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Sandman #23
Dec. 19th, 2023 05:42 pmiamrmanDream 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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laughing_tree
It’s fascinating because it’s the only place where Alan tapped into the wind of power as opposed to being against it. Normally Alan’s work is sort of a critique of power. You look at Watchmen, you look at V for Vendetta, they’re all about entities misusing power. But in Miracleman, he goes, “Okay, could you use power for good? If you had infinite power, how would you use it?” -- Neil Gaiman
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laughing_tree
What’s fun is it becomes not only utopian but monstrous. You have one superhero battle, and it’s a terrible thing that leaves Earth with a psychic wound that’s almost impossible to overcome. In old comics, like old sitcoms, it didn’t matter what happened — at the beginning of the next episode you’re back in the status quo. Alan was the first person to go, “You can’t actually do that.” If Superman existed, he would change the world. -- Neil Gaiman
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laughing_tree
One day the phone rang, and he said, “Hey, Neil, it’s Alan. Listen, I’m going to wrap up Miracleman at the end of book three, and by the time I’m finished, he’s going to create the perfect world in which there will be no more criminality, war, injustice, poverty, or any of the other things that you normally drive a story with. Would you like to take over?” -- Neil Gaiman
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laughing_tree
How does a utopia work in terms of love? In terms of family? I was a young writer going, I don’t know if I could write a superhero comic, but I could write interesting utopian science-fiction. Dystopias are the fun ones that people love. Everybody loves a good dystopia. Utopias are so much harder. -- Neil Gaiman
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Amazing Fantasy #1000
Sep. 28th, 2022 09:32 pmlaughing_tree
I just find myself thinking with enormous pleasure about the afternoon Jonathan Ross and I went up to Steve Ditko’s office in New York in 2007. We just walked up, knocked on the door, and he came out and chatted in the corridor for 25 minutes. He answered all of Jonathan’s questions and went in and got us a bunch of comics. I just remember him as so very, very gracious and at the same time so very private. -- Neil Gaiman
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Sandman Midnight Theatre #1
Sep. 18th, 2022 11:41 pmlaughing_tree
What attracted me to it was the realization that I could take the British pulp tradition, all the Leslie Charteris and Dennis Wheatley tales I'd loved as a kid, and do the same thing Matt [Wagner] had done with the American tales. - Neil Gaiman
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