I’m rereading The Sandman Companion, by Hy Bender, and it’s always fascinating this experience of learning something new every time with each rereading. Here I come across an impressive testimony from the penciller Michael Zulli, who participated in the series.
“Comics are often compared to film, but I see them as being much more like theater, another medium that can't physically show everything and so must rely on suggestion supported by a few perfectly chosen details. I try to render characters and their environments with enough fidelity to maintain the illusion of reality – and avoid having my audience want to throw tomatoes at me.” (p.57)
It's time to resume my Sandman annual reading. Now moving along to Season of Mists. It's not my favorite arc, but it's a powerful one. If I have to choose the arcs I don't like that much, I believe A Game of You comes first, then Season of Mists, I don't know why.
But I also know that every time you reread something, it's a new experience. You can think it's the same book, the same comics, the same text, but we're all changing every single day. You can always fall in love for those things that now resonates to your life in that moment. #Sandman#Comics@comics
So #MadameWeb. I actually liked it. The actors give good performances. I would love to see Dakota Johnson in more stuff, she's great.
Now yes, this #movie is begging for a franchise. It brings the #film down. But I would love for a version with less of that stuff. Stunts were great. I loved how the seeing-the-future was used here. There was good-to-decent (always enjoyable) char work. Props.
#GrantMorrison has written some of my favourite comics, but if this is representative if his 2020s output then I'll pass. There's no lack of effort in here - plenty of imaginative pyrotechnics - but there seems no sense in which there are characters worth caring about in the midstof it all. #Bookstodon@comics#FinishedReading