Comic-Con: Neil Gaiman To Write New ‘Sandman’ Series

COMMENTS (12)

• This news just made my month!

  Comment by Spud — Friday July 13, 2012 @ 6:12am PDT  Reply to this post

• Simply stated, Sandman is one of the single most overrated comic book properties of the last 30 years. Thankfully we’ve been spared a movie, but this comics sequel still smacks of desperation. JH Williams is great though.

  Comment by INterested Observer — Friday July 13, 2012 @ 7:53am PDT  Reply to this post

  • Simply stated, INterested Observer comment is one of the single most overrated comments properties of the last 30 years.
    It beat the hell out of most of the stuff in the last 30 years. Sure there is stuff that is as good, but it’s rarely seen and far between.
    Do you even read comics or are you just one of the Christian haters?

    Comment by Evilem — Friday July 13, 2012 @ 1:07pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • As things like “good” and “overrated” are subjective and change depending on who you’re talking to, your statement is useless without the “in my opinion” after it. You don’t like it, fine. Don’t read it.

    Comment by JohnQEvil — Friday July 13, 2012 @ 2:14pm PDT  Reply to this post

    • Bullshit. This series is brilliant.

      Comment by Roger — Friday July 13, 2012 @ 6:23pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • maybe i just don’t see it, but i think sandman is cheesy and looks like he belongs in the cure (and i even like the cure a lot). i appreciate the artwork, but i guess when you hear over and over again “you GOTTA read sandman, you’ll love it”, you’re expectations are so high for something incredible. i have yet to see anything as good or better than the watchmen story.

    Comment by ccwowo — Thursday July 26, 2012 @ 1:32pm PDT  Reply to this post

    • *in my humble opinion

      Comment by ccwowo — Thursday July 26, 2012 @ 1:33pm PDT  Reply to this post

      • and also, i do have to say i can really appreciate what the series stands for and says about so many different facets of human life, just not my cup’o'tea i guess. still love ya neil

        Comment by Anonymous — Thursday July 26, 2012 @ 1:35pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Oh INterested, everyone can have their opinion, and I totally agree that a Sandman movie should best never be made, but your post smacks of trolling. “Single most over-rated comic book property”? I won’t go into all the social, metaphysical, cultural, and literary tropes it explores, but when any comic book series garners international praise by philosophers, professors, scientists, and is studied and written about in graduate programs across the world, even if you personally think it’s not all that, you’d be a bit short-sighted to ignore its impact. And isn’t anything that give a positive spin and give credence to the comic book art form a positive for the entire industry?

  Comment by Xero — Friday July 13, 2012 @ 10:57am PDT  Reply to this post

• That is laughable! The Sandman comic is the benchmark for all other adult comics. Garth Ennis Hellraiser years were fantastic but Gaimans Sandman years were pure creative imagination.
  It would impossible for Gaimans Sandman to be overrated. I suggest you bury your face back in The Dark Knight or Faust or whatever other serious comic you’ve been reading.

  Comment by George — Friday July 13, 2012 @ 11:31am PDT  Reply to this post

• I’m beyond excited for this. And I, for one, would love to see a film adaptation. If it’s bad, it’s bad. The comics are still there regardless.

  Comment by Sabir Pirzada — Saturday July 14, 2012 @ 4:04pm PDT  Reply to this post

• My only gripe here is that, like pretty much everybody who writes about comics for the Hollywood press doesn’t appear to know the difference between comics, graphic novels, and trade paperbacks.

  Sandman was NOT a graphic novel – a graphic novel, to explain it simply, is a comic that is published in the format of a more traditional book.

  A trade paperback is a collection of single issue comic books that, like a graphic novel, is published in the format of a more traditional book, instead of the magazine format comics usually come in.

  Comment by Rob — Sunday July 22, 2012 @ 11:38am PDT  Reply to this post