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- From: kens@psc.lsa.umich.edu (Ken Small)
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- Subject: Re: Favorite Writers
- Date: 28 Dec 1992 20:41:49 GMT
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- Elizabeth Holden (panda@Micor.OCUnix.on.ca) wrote:
- : >
- : > Neil Gaiman
- : > His Sandman WAS good (the first twenty issues or so), but it has
- : > become dreck.
- : >
- : Well, you're the first person I have heard who thought so! You're
- : missing it, really, Gaiman is as brilliant as everyone thinks he is, and
- : then some. Sure, he isn't *perfect* but he has managed a consistently
- : intriguing series of stories with an original, sustained mythology,
- : mystery, feelings, and a fair degree of profundity. He never falls into
- : the melodrama that was Alan Moore's occasional weakness, or the shock
- : tactics that Frank Miller occasionally plays with, and manages to create
- : moments stronger in impact than anything Paul Chadwick has done. I'll
- : forgive him a few flaws for the strength of his vision.
-
- I don't find Sandman all that good either. While I disagree with
- the first-20-good/rest-are-drek observation, I do find Sandman to
- be a 50/50 proposal. Half the time it's good, half the time it's
- drek. Gaiman would to better to stick to self-contained stories
- such as the ones between arcs; the "sustained mythology" is nice,
- but unless the characters actually change (and they haven't) then it's
- just another excercise in continuity, which is ultimately self-
- defeating.
-
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- Ken Small kens@umich.edu
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