[ SECRET POST #2671 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2671 ⌋

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Comments

[truxillogical]

The other thing is that when it ran in the '90s, aside from like Moore's Swamp Thing stuff (as you said), there wasn't a ton of material like it. So reading it today, it does come off as less fresh and innovative than it was at the time.

That's a big part of it. Of almost any classic of any medium, really. Something being an early example of a certain style or genre, it really is groundbreaking and new...until it isn't anymore.

I think it's also worth remembering that it was such an early work for him too, and that UK comics had a much different feel than US comics (they still do a bit, but at the time, it was way more pronounced, a certain style they all shared). But he really was barely more than a teenager writing early Sandman, IIRC.

[(Anonymous)]

He had just turned 28 (born November 1960) when Sandman #1 was published in December 1988. But it is definitely an early and career-defining work for him; it was just journalism, a few short stories, and Black Orchid before it.

[truxillogical]

Oh lord. ... I turn 29 in a month.

...scuze me, I have a something-life-crisis to go through. Some wall-staring and sobbing may be in order.