Comments on: I am a passenger. I am moving through your dreams.

I am a passenger. I am moving through your dreams.

poopy — Sun, 01 Jun 2003 11:53:39 -0800

If you're a fan of Neil Gaiman then maybe you liked The Sandman. If you were a big fan of The Sandman then perhaps you stumbled upon The Sandman annotations, a comprehensive resource covering the historical, folkloric and religious/mythological references - page by page, panel by panel - found within the storyline. From Chaucer to Dante to the Eumenides, Gaiman created a fabulous story that inspired young and old alike to dream again (one of my personal favorites is A Dream of a Thousand Cats).some mefi sandman-related artifacts can be found here and here.

By: Monster_Zero

Monster_Zero — Sun, 01 Jun 2003 16:58:25 -0800

Right on both counts! I'm both a fan and I've found the annotations, which were pretty great for spotting references and things I would never have gotten myself. As a sort of geekish anecdote for those who have read the second book, A Doll's House - I remember grumbling about how very coincidental it was that all this important stuff was happening around Rose Walker - until the annotations noted that she was a vortex of dream and it only made sense that important dream-related things would be drawn to her. My personal favorite stories, by the by, are Men of Good Fortune, Soft Places, and Ramadan.

By: WolfDaddy

WolfDaddy — Sun, 01 Jun 2003 17:01:50 -0800

This is great poopy! Thanks a million! Me ... I loved all of The Kindly Ones. Lyta Hall is the most tortured superheroine ever :-)

By: jonson

jonson — Sun, 01 Jun 2003 18:33:40 -0800

Any fan of the series that hasn't read (and re-read and re-re-read) Hy Bender's EXCELLENT Sandman Companion is doing themselves a diservice; your appreciation of the genius behind the stories will increase exponentially! p.s. favorites include Ramadan & the chapter from Season of Mists set at the haunted boarding school.

By: romakimmy

romakimmy — Sun, 01 Jun 2003 20:45:43 -0800

*grumble* My copy of Seasons of Mists got lost somewhere in storage and I can't find a copy here, making my Sandman collection incomplete. *grumble* poopy, great post. As a side note, I wouldn't mind an annotation of American Gods, if only for the various shadowy descriptions of gods at the climax. And I chuckled at Delirium's little cameo in the book.

By: shadow45

shadow45 — Sun, 01 Jun 2003 21:28:48 -0800

Neverwhere was such an incredible book. I read it in two days.

By: Foosnark

Foosnark — Mon, 02 Jun 2003 09:28:29 -0800

I do not know of a reference for skooky birds either. But this is good.

By: widdershins

widdershins — Wed, 04 Jun 2003 13:28:40 -0800

Man, a Neil Gaiman post and it has to happen while I'm away on vacation w/no access to Mefi! Crapola! I looooove his comic books (Sandman, Books of Magic, Stardust) but don't like his novels nearly as much. Not a Terry Pratchett fan, so Good Omens was lost on me. Didn't particularly like American Gods or Coraline either. The scripts for Neverwhere were great but the actual show sucked - didn't bother reading the book. But the new Sandman collection on the other hand... *drools*