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<blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 1825542" data-attributes="member: 151"><p>I think Gaiman has brilliant ideas, and excellent dialogue and prose...but his actual pure ficiton work varies. The Sandman was brilliant for a number of reasons, and pointing out that it followed late behind Dark Knight and Watchmen misses that it was immensely popular (moreso than either of those two) and had even wider penetration outside of the comics field than either of them. The Vertigo comics line wouldn't exist now, if not for Gaiman (and missing things like 'Y, the Last Man' or any number of titles would be a shame).</p><p></p><p>Michael Tree also makes a good point: Gaiman is witty, well-spoken, very charismatic and an all-around decent person. On the limited occasions I've had to encounter him personally, he was very nice. I remember when he came to Fat Jack's Comics in Philly, and there was a line out the door and down the block....he was only scheduled to be there for three hours doing signings. Gaiman sent someone down the line to personally assure everyone that he wasn't leaving until everyone had gotten an autograph...and sure enough, he did just that. (And he was quite amused when I asked for a Mad Hettie quote on one of my comics, and even took the time to explain it to my wife).</p><p></p><p>Neverwhere was a great idea that ran into trouble with production...I've never read the book, though I understand he did things there that were cut from the production, and put some things back that were changed against his preference. For a low-budget BBC prodcution thought, it's great fun. That may just be the Dr. Who fan in me, talking. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WizarDru, post: 1825542, member: 151"] I think Gaiman has brilliant ideas, and excellent dialogue and prose...but his actual pure ficiton work varies. The Sandman was brilliant for a number of reasons, and pointing out that it followed late behind Dark Knight and Watchmen misses that it was immensely popular (moreso than either of those two) and had even wider penetration outside of the comics field than either of them. The Vertigo comics line wouldn't exist now, if not for Gaiman (and missing things like 'Y, the Last Man' or any number of titles would be a shame). Michael Tree also makes a good point: Gaiman is witty, well-spoken, very charismatic and an all-around decent person. On the limited occasions I've had to encounter him personally, he was very nice. I remember when he came to Fat Jack's Comics in Philly, and there was a line out the door and down the block....he was only scheduled to be there for three hours doing signings. Gaiman sent someone down the line to personally assure everyone that he wasn't leaving until everyone had gotten an autograph...and sure enough, he did just that. (And he was quite amused when I asked for a Mad Hettie quote on one of my comics, and even took the time to explain it to my wife). Neverwhere was a great idea that ran into trouble with production...I've never read the book, though I understand he did things there that were cut from the production, and put some things back that were changed against his preference. For a low-budget BBC prodcution thought, it's great fun. That may just be the Dr. Who fan in me, talking. ;) [/QUOTE]
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