Neil Gaiman's Sandman

[I, Brian]

the Sandman series was really good and it had all of my brothers and sisters in it and it had about when destruction went away but it never said why i became delirium but i forget if i was ever delight before

but that doesn't matter because here is a nice doggy and oh look at all the pretty butterflies


Delirium was a great character, wasn't she?

[Leto]

Yep, but Death was/is the One.

[Green]

Delirium was interesting, but it did my head in trying to read the damn font.

[I, Brian]

It was a great range of characters, really - and Death was definitely great as well. I had a soft spot for Delirium's drifty logic, though.

[knivesout]

Yes. I liked the sequence, "A Game of You" I think, which focussed a lot on her.

It's incredible though, looking at Brian's post how many teen-girl bloggers today seem to follow Delirium's typing, colour and thought patterns, although it's a fair bet few of them have read the Sandman comics.


I liked how Dream's speech was also distinctive - always white text on black. It was especially cool in the story about the baby who wanders into the realm of dreams, where Abel tells a story and Dream and Death are drawn in this chubby-li'l-kid cartoon style, and Death's speech bubbles are still white-on-black!