Sandman Meditations – Brief Lives: Chapter 4
There’s something thrilling about the secret spaces of secret identities. Sometimes, of course, they’re fascinating in and of themselves — think of the Batcave, or of Doc Savage’s Fortress of Solitude. But they’re still thrilling when they’re a basement room in a nondescript suburban house. That’s where Capax had stashed the souvenirs of his long [...]
Sandman Meditations – Brief Lives Chapter 2
Early in Tron: Legacy, some of the main characters sit down for a meal together. This struck me as odd when I watched the film, because at that point in the story, the characters were inside the virtual reality of The Grid, and were really nothing much more than conglomerations of computer code. Computer codes, [...]
Sandman Meditations – Brief Lives Chapter 1
Now, opening the first pages of the seventh collection of The Sandman, some of the fun comes from knowing right where we are in the first panels. Disorientation has certainly been an element when beginning these stories, because they could be anywhere or anywhen, but re-orientation is also an important component — at first, the [...]
Sandman Meditations – Fables & Reflections: “Parliament of Rooks”
Before we get all philosophical and meditative (which we will), let’s begin by considering the many forms of the human and non-human characters in “Parliament of Rooks”. A lot of credit goes, I expect, to penciller Jill Thompson, who moves from the very thin lines of Lyta and her son Daniel, figures in a world [...]
Givin’ Up the Goodies – BookSpot Central Halloween Picks and Faves!
It’s always been a concern of mine that as a site we weren’t topical enough in terms of our timing; in short seasonal. So I gathered the BookSpot Central clique to offer our readers some Halloween recommendations. Now, as we are people, of course a simple request turns into a committee situation which at it’s [...]
