Seriously! I had a horrible nightmare last night that I was being chased by the Corinthian (though in my dream, I was calling him "Constantine" but it was absolutely the Teeth-For-Eyes guy.) And I have very vivid dreams so I woke up feeling quite traumatized.
But I keep reading because I love it. Gaiman's writing has this fairytale-like quality to it that I love. Something I realized while reading "Fragile Things" is that he has a talent for writing some truly evil villians.
Still, I'm not impressed with the art aside from a few slightly stunning panels. I find it hard to connect to the characters when their facial expressions are so dull and disconnected.
Posted by 0Megabyte (Member # 8624) on :
I bought the new, overpriced, huge version, and it apparently has much better art.
Either way, great writing. Truly impressive, and yes, Gaiman does seem to have those qualities I notice. I doubt I'd ever be able to write something quite so... fairytale like.
Posted by Shanna (Member # 7900) on :
The two large volumes in black leather and slipcases?
If so, that's what I got for x-mas (but with a 40% discount so I can't complain about the price.) I'd hate to see what the art looked like before!
Posted by Lisa (Member # 8384) on :
quote:Originally posted by Shanna: Seriously! I had a horrible nightmare last night that I was being chased by the Corinthian (though in my dream, I was calling him "Constantine" but it was absolutely the Teeth-For-Eyes guy.) And I have very vivid dreams so I woke up feeling quite traumatized.
The Corinthian is super-creepy.
Were you pronouncing Constantine with an "iyne" at the end or an "een"?
Posted by Joldo (Member # 6991) on :
I had nightmares about the Hell from the first volume. They went on for a week, to the point where I considered returning the book--'cause if the first one messed me up that much, imagine what the others would do.
Luckily, I did not. Instead, I used Sandman for my IB Extended Essay. Posted by Lisa (Member # 8384) on :
I started reading Sandman at about issue 5, if I'm not misremembering. I'd have to check, but it was the one with Dr. Destiny in the diner. The needles in the eyes were probably the creepiest thing I'd ever seen in a comic book. They may still be.
I bought ever issue from that point on. When I went to see how much they were worth, I was told that with the collections out, they weren't worth anything, so I sold them for whatever I could get and bought the collections, which were a lot easier to keep track of.
Sometimes I think that may have been a mistake. I still have my original Watchmen comics, though.
Posted by Liz B (Member # 8238) on :
quote:... the one with Dr. Destiny in the diner. The needles in the eyes were probably the creepiest thing I'd ever seen in a comic book. They may still be.
Change that to "creepiest thing I'd ever seen" and I'm right there with you. *shudders* It's a wonder I kept reading. Of course, I'm too cheap to buy the collections, so I've gradually been reading them while standing around in bookstores.
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
That was creepy, but that man's face on the wall was NAUSEATING when I first read sandman because the first that i read was A Game of You.
Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
Sometimes Neil surprised me. I found Despair to be grotesque and repulsive the few times we glimpsed her before Brief Lives.
Then she became a character I pitied and sort of liked.
Heck, I wanted to hug her after she found out Destruction had moved on.
Posted by Fyfe (Member # 937) on :
Oo, you had a nightmare about his nightmare? Seriously, you should shoot him an email and tell him. If I were a writer that would flatter me beyond belief.
Also, the art gets better. Brief Lives is my favorite full story arc, but there are some stunning individual issues -- "Ramadan" particularly.
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
Neil Gaiman is funny. He writes all manners of things that are violent but he's squeamish about stuff like that according to a story he told. Heehee. Scary trousers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=337-ycZz6IM
Yeah, poor Despair looked so sad in Brief Lives. Sadder than usual. She's more sympathetic than Desire who annoys me quite a bit. But I love Delirium. Especially when she got all Tori Amos-y. And those chocolate figures.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
Gaiman's good at creepy. He's 100% responsible for the only creepy parts of Good Omens, for example; in fact, he's on record as having said that pretty much all he contributed to Good Omens were the squicky parts.
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