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Scott McCloud's I Can't Stop Thinking ...
Used to read many more comics than I do now. But tempted all over again by what McCloud writes.
(Should, of course, also be commenting on what Gaiman writes. And it is 'writes', these days. American Gods is a fine book, even considering its relative lack of rivers. And no, it is not 'just the same as Sandman').
But I digress.
Am heading out to buy Transmetropolitan, because I liked what I read. And maybe if it is not solid text I can read it. (Reading solid text, in book form, for more than about 20 minutes sets off twitches, neuralgia, migraines and depression-at-not-having-finished-Years-of-Rice-and-Salt)
Used to read many more comics than I do now. But tempted all over again by what McCloud writes.
(Should, of course, also be commenting on what Gaiman writes. And it is 'writes', these days. American Gods is a fine book, even considering its relative lack of rivers. And no, it is not 'just the same as Sandman').
But I digress.
Am heading out to buy Transmetropolitan, because I liked what I read. And maybe if it is not solid text I can read it. (Reading solid text, in book form, for more than about 20 minutes sets off twitches, neuralgia, migraines and depression-at-not-having-finished-Years-of-Rice-and-Salt)
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Sandman, like Terry Gilliam's classic trio of films, is about story. How we create stories, and how they create us. Neverwhere, in its distorted and mythical London, is about place, and how it shapes the world around it. And finally American Gods is about gods, the gods we make, and the resulting baggage societies carry around with them.
Actually, thinking about that, the theme is actually humanities relationship with itself, looking at three of the mirrors/filters/whatever we throw up to the universe.
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Gaiman is using some of the same symbols, themes etc but he is telling very different stories in the three books. They are all rooted in myth. But Sandman is about - sorry, 'about' - moral law (like Greek tragedy is 'about' moral law) ... Neverwhere is 'about' the patina of legend that builds up in a city, and how it builds up latterly, post-Victorian ... and American Gods is, heh, about gods.
And America.
No, it's kind of about that same clash of modernity and myth, but it's also to do with adaptation, and with how a sense of belonging is acquired.
Or maybe I mean "I don't know ... ask Neil".
[By the way, I am not disagreeing with Simon here - they're also all about story ...]
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