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Book: Show us a great comic book.

Okay, I'm going to pretend that I'm honoring the Sandman because it's almost Summer Solstice (June 21st).

It's not because I'm in financial hell. It's not because I accidentally slammed my hand in the metal filing cabinet last night trying to find old tax forms.

It's not because financial aid from my old school sent me a letter saying that I am denied financial aid because my grade point average which is 3.424 is not up to academic standards. It's not because when I told them I graduated with honors, they said it was a government technicality. (Things are okay with my new school, luckily. I don't even know why my old school is contacting me!)

And it's certainly not because my head is drifting back to my college days when I was a wine-drinking cigarette smoker and I had to read Sandman just to get me through the day.

 

So seriously, in honor of Neil Gaiman, The Sandman and the absolutely heart wrenching, brilliant and stunningly gorgeous art which made college life so much easier, here are the reasons why I love Sandman.

 

* The stories were brilliant and the characters were chillingly real. Once you began reading the series, you would swear they were right there with you during your normal day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The characters never looked the same. That's because there were over 35 different artists who worked on the magazine. It's pure genius.

The facial expressions and body language were so real it was scary. And the art was 100 percent of the time, stunning.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

* The Creatures.

I don't have pictures of them, but the animals that guarded Dream's castle were priceless.

Gryphon, Hippogriff and Wyvern were the really cool security guards of the castle that will make you want mythological beasts in your home.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

* GAIMAN.

Known in art circles as "The Shakespeare of comic books".

An understatement, for sure.

Happy Midsummer, Neil. You're amazing.