I just look at the pictures

[tamaranth]

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)

Comments

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

He's right you know

[punctuate why]

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 ...]

[swisstone.livejournal.com]

You see this is why I don't do reviews for Matrix ...