mtgordon
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One day, when we'd been married for about a year, she asked me why my shirt smelled odd, like an unfamiliar perfume, and I admitted that it did smell strange, but I was unable to give any accounting for the odd smell. She told me, rather pointedly, …
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Entirely reasonable.
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I feel a bit guilty for raising what might be seen as a fluff question, and it's hardly specific to this volume, but I've been giving it a bit of thought lately.
Suppose a Sandman movie was being made, and you were the casting director. … -
I don't have a sense of Wanda dying to save Barbie; rather, I have a sense of Wanda dying because Neil wanted to tell the story of Barbie going to Wanda's funeral. Maisie's death was a bit more arbitrary, but I'll get back to that in a bit.
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For some reason, I thought it started at 3:30. Oops.
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Ethel, the former lover of both Roderick Burgess and Ruthven Sykes, here appears as Ethel Dee. I’m not sure we ever learn about Doctor Destiny’s father, though perhaps that’s…
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Imperfect Hosts
I’m curious what anyone thinks about the title. The previous title “Sleep of the Just” is a clear reference to the punishment of Alex Burgess, thou… -
The forum says 3 PM EDT; G+ says 7 PM EDT. Which is it, then?
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I'm Mark. I'm behind, partly because I was on the boat with Sus et al. This is my second time through Sandman. I took a break from comics in adolescence because novels gave me a lot more bang for the buck, and I came back to comics fairly recentl…
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The date on "The Sun" is September 14, 1988. Issue #1 of "Sandman" was released in January 1989.
"Frederick" is "peaceful ruler." "Ernie" (presumed "Ernest") is "serious… -
The spell itself is a source of curiosity. I'm not sure how he got the various components; since his qualified success (i.e. he didn't capture Death) seemed surprising in hindsight ("We did it. I don't believe it. We did it."), I'm unc…
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I'm catching up at last. See, there was this boat...
I've been going through the graphic novels with a fine-toothed comb. I don't have the Annotated, but I expect I'll have a lot of stuff to add that might be found in those. I'm going …