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Damn, Comics Continuity Is Hard
Jun. 2nd, 2021 09:46 pmWhen squeeing about Sandman the other day, I made one of those only a comics novice errors. I don't even remember what! article or wiki page first had me pulling my hair out, thinking that the contents of Preludes, Doll's House, and Dream Country were 28 issues, rather than 20.
But get it into my head I most certainly did, and then proceeded to blather that the audible adaptation was 28, instead of the much more reasonable 20 issues long.
Which then caused me no shortage of angst as I saw the audible timer inexorably ticking down; how the fuck were they going to get twenty-eight issues in here? Even as I saw the issues starting to shrink from 40 to 24 pages, I was starting to fret. Because oh! oh, I'm hitting Sandman fandom hard--rather cold, cruel hero learning to be less cruel, all with the haughty arrogance of a monarch--well. anyone who's been subjected to my Rufus Scrimgeour of HP ramblings or my Thorin of Hobbit ones, now that I think on it, pretty much knows that's tailor-made to hit all my buttons.
And one integral part of being fannish is continuity. (This isn't helped by "Moving in" and "Playing House" somehow ending up after Men of Good Fortune in the audio edition, which caused an undignified scramble for their synopses before realizing oh! they've just been moved about from original issue order.) GOD Old Guard is so easy! in comparison--it has nine issues, which doesn't challenge my clearly math-limited brain. *g*
Adaptation continues to be simply and entirely sublime; after making sure that yes, in fact, I'd simply read the wrong number and all contents of first three volumes were at my disposal, I finished up Dream a Little Dream and am well into Hope In Hell.
GOD, the Constantine and Morpheus end-arc in Dream a Little was immensely powerful: Morpheus's very cavalier comment that John's former girlfriend would die soon enough from dream exposure coming crashing into the fact that nope. Nope, she mattered! as a person, as a woman John had once, briefly, loved. Nope, John Constantine was noping right the hell out of her being treated like inconvenient rubbish. And it's really. really fascinating to see Morpheus...come to respect John more. For standing up to him, for being forceful enough to make the lord of dream, who so many find terrifying actually yield. It was just a viscerally raw moment of first seeing the Morpheus armor crack, just a little.
But get it into my head I most certainly did, and then proceeded to blather that the audible adaptation was 28, instead of the much more reasonable 20 issues long.
Which then caused me no shortage of angst as I saw the audible timer inexorably ticking down; how the fuck were they going to get twenty-eight issues in here? Even as I saw the issues starting to shrink from 40 to 24 pages, I was starting to fret. Because oh! oh, I'm hitting Sandman fandom hard--rather cold, cruel hero learning to be less cruel, all with the haughty arrogance of a monarch--well. anyone who's been subjected to my Rufus Scrimgeour of HP ramblings or my Thorin of Hobbit ones, now that I think on it, pretty much knows that's tailor-made to hit all my buttons.
And one integral part of being fannish is continuity. (This isn't helped by "Moving in" and "Playing House" somehow ending up after Men of Good Fortune in the audio edition, which caused an undignified scramble for their synopses before realizing oh! they've just been moved about from original issue order.) GOD Old Guard is so easy! in comparison--it has nine issues, which doesn't challenge my clearly math-limited brain. *g*
Adaptation continues to be simply and entirely sublime; after making sure that yes, in fact, I'd simply read the wrong number and all contents of first three volumes were at my disposal, I finished up Dream a Little Dream and am well into Hope In Hell.
GOD, the Constantine and Morpheus end-arc in Dream a Little was immensely powerful: Morpheus's very cavalier comment that John's former girlfriend would die soon enough from dream exposure coming crashing into the fact that nope. Nope, she mattered! as a person, as a woman John had once, briefly, loved. Nope, John Constantine was noping right the hell out of her being treated like inconvenient rubbish. And it's really. really fascinating to see Morpheus...come to respect John more. For standing up to him, for being forceful enough to make the lord of dream, who so many find terrifying actually yield. It was just a viscerally raw moment of first seeing the Morpheus armor crack, just a little.
