Question: are Salon members other than me familiar with Sandman? Because going back to it has made me wonder about the Endless and our antihero(es), and how encounters would go.
I am not! Though it is one of those things that I feel like makes me a not-very-well-rounded-fandom-denizen-of-my-approximate-age, so I'd be interested in picking it up. Hm, looks like the library has at least some of it.
It‘s so very much worth checking out, though as I observed in my recent post, the earliest stories contain far more horror than the later series would, as it took Gaiman, like many a series writer, a bit to find the definite „voice“ for the saga. (There is still so much important stuff being set up in those earliest chapters.) There are also the equivalent of short stories in later collections that might ease you into it.
One of the great things about Sandman is that a crossover with just about evrything is possible due to its basic premises and the fact it tells stories from just about any point in history and present. What I was specifically going at was that you have these seven anthromorphic personifications called the Endless - Death, Destiny, Dream, Destruction, Despair, Desire, Delirium (who used to be Delight) - who are simultanously a squabbling family. Many years ago, I wrote a Babylon 5/Sandman crossover where my favourite B5 character, Londo Mollari, meets each of the Endless in then course of his life, and when coming across it again recently thought, well, obviously, Fritz met them, too, and good lord, would they recognize family dynamics if they met some of his siblings as well.
The local library had an omnibus that I checked out when the kids and I went (in person! :D ) this weekend! I haven't had time to touch it (and have been a little afraid to; I wasn't sure I wanted to read horror when I had a lot of work to get done, because it has the potential to keep me up at night) but I might now :) (Well, not right now, I have learned that reading horror before bed is Definitely not a good idea!)
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Date: 2021-06-12 06:30 pm (UTC)One of the great things about Sandman is that a crossover with just about evrything is possible due to its basic premises and the fact it tells stories from just about any point in history and present. What I was specifically going at was that you have these seven anthromorphic personifications called the Endless - Death, Destiny, Dream, Destruction, Despair, Desire, Delirium (who used to be Delight) - who are simultanously a squabbling family. Many years ago, I wrote a Babylon 5/Sandman crossover where my favourite B5 character, Londo Mollari, meets each of the Endless in then course of his life, and when coming across it again recently thought, well, obviously, Fritz met them, too, and good lord, would they recognize family dynamics if they met some of his siblings as well.
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