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Post by coke & comics on Mar 3, 2016 13:53:10 GMT -5
I consider the answer obvious, so I'm letting people to pick up to 3. I am very curious what people consider his second strongest work.
Note the poll is about comic books. His books/films/television projects/poetry/etc are another topic.
I am also quite curious what my most glaring omissions from the list above are.
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Post by coke & comics on Mar 3, 2016 13:56:39 GMT -5
And I'll make berk a deal.
If Eternals wins the poll, then he doesn't have to read Sandman.
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Post by coke & comics on Mar 3, 2016 14:41:55 GMT -5
Person who voted "Other work", please specify!
I may want to offer my mea culpa.
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Post by coke & comics on Mar 3, 2016 14:44:06 GMT -5
(There is one omission that's purely accidental. But it seems too late to edit the poll. Oops.)
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Mar 3, 2016 14:47:03 GMT -5
Appart from Sandman and Signal to Noise, my fave work of his would either be the Elric one-shot or the Hellraiser short story, so I voted Other Work... The Hellraiser story is the smartest take I ever read on the damnation box puzzle as it takes the puzzle concept in a broader direction, stating that anything could act as such a lament configuration portal, as long as you obsess with it enough, and the story uses crosswords as the pathway. It also features some of my fave Dave McKean artwork.   One Life, the Elric one-shot is about the impact Moorcock books have on a young boy's life, and it's an amazing bittersweet story, typical Gaimn and great P Craig Russell artwork (a Moorcock specialist!)   |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Mar 3, 2016 14:47:43 GMT -5
I am responsible for one of the other choices : an account of the life and death of emperor Heliogabolus, published in Cerebus 147.
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Post by ziza9 on Mar 3, 2016 19:50:43 GMT -5
Sandman #1-75 is the obvious #1 for me. 2nd best his Miracleman work. 3rd, Death: The High Cost of Living. His Books of Magic was okay, but I felt the series that followed his mini eclipsed it and really better defined Tim Hunter/Hunter's world.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2016 20:49:47 GMT -5
Neil Gaiman's best work was
Sandman Overture
Book of Magic 1-4
Endless Nights
Honorable Mentions
Sandman #1-#75
Black Orchid #1-#3
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Post by dupersuper on Mar 4, 2016 0:38:57 GMT -5
Did...I miss 6 issues of Overture?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2016 0:40:20 GMT -5
Did...I miss 6 issues of Overture? Yes, however the only existing copies are in the town of Hicksville and in Lucien's library, so unless you have access to one of those two places, you will never read them. -M |
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Post by tingramretro on Mar 4, 2016 2:41:22 GMT -5
For me, Sandman, Miracleman, and that "most glaring omission" mentioned earlier, Neverwhere.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2016 2:47:39 GMT -5
For me, Sandman, Miracleman, and that "most glaring omission" mentioned earlier, Neverwhere. The Neverhwere comic was an adaptation of a Gaiman TV series adapted to a novel, but Gaiman did nothing on the comic. It was written/scripted/adapted by Mike Carey, so I am not sure it should count if we are limiting it to Neil's comic work. With some of the other adaptations of his prose work, Gaiman had a hand in the comic (Murder Mysteries for one), but others like Neverwhere, the comic adaptations were done by other hands (Coraline for example). Unless we are counting those among Gaiman's comic oeuvre too? My three choices were Sandman, Books of Magic and Murder Mysteries by the way. -M |
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Post by tingramretro on Mar 4, 2016 2:59:24 GMT -5
Hmm, fair point, I guess. Then I suppose I'd have to say Books of Magic as a third...
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Post by Action Ace on Mar 4, 2016 15:10:31 GMT -5
I've read very little Gaiman.
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Wednesday Comics Metamorpho
Superman/ Green Lantern: Legend of the Green Flame
Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?
Spawn #9
and my one winning choice: "A Black and White World" a short story from Batman: Black & White #2 with Simon Bisley on art
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Mar 4, 2016 16:28:59 GMT -5
I've read very little Gaiman. 1602 Wednesday Comics Metamorpho Superman/ Green Lantern: Legend of the Green Flame Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? Spawn #9 and my one winning choice: "A Black and White World" a short story from Batman: Black & White #2 with Simon Bisley on art It's a great little story! |
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