I’m reading the first 3 volumes of this by way of preparation for China Miéville’s(!) forthcoming contribution to the IP. Pretty good writing for a Hollywood actor, I thought, and brilliant art, but basically pretty pedestrian.
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
Jenny Erpenbeck opens #Spring 2024 with Sloughing Off One Skin, a haunting #ShortStory that explores truth and identity, translated by Michael Hofmann.
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My review of Conan the Barbarian #10 just went up at Grimdark Magazine. The current arc is fun. but I wouldn't mind moving on from the black stone storyline.
Big Barrel is off to the dumpster to get some grub. Jakub Żulczyk draws a picture of decline in Many Years of Hardships, translated by John and Małgorzata Markoff.
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Can you make something true just by #writing it down? Jenny Erpenbeck traces a paper trail in Sloughing Off One Skin, translated by Michael Hofmann.
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