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“The air is musty, tired, OLD; it smells of lost dreams and rotten fabric.”

--Damn, do I love that line.

AND, I’m losing my marbles…because I find myself, uh, liking the Sandman. He’s been mostly-naked or half-naked sometimes, and has sometimes been rendered pretty good-looking--and I just love his hair!

…Yeah, my marbles have been going somewhere; I need help locating them--there goes one rolling down thataway….

Amazon only cares about taking money from me now, and from most writers in general, who aren't the "top" one, who Amazon advertises NONSTOP, so much so, I had to pay to remove ads on Prime because I could not stand seeing that advertised anymore--INCLUDING on HERE.

For sure, this is a bizarre book; if a comic could be written stream-of-consciousness, this seems like it. I don't like a few of the things in it, but it's still good overall, is reminiscent of the old-style horror movies, like the Hammer films, and other weird movies from the 60s and 70s, all of which are films that I tended to really love.

Newsflash: A writer who goes around telling the world that his sci-fi books are “real science” and “the science in them is real” is demonstrating that he does NOT know what real science is and has no real science knowledge. Real science is in NONfiction publications, is done in the advanced classroom, laboratory, etc., NOT inside a fake umbrella called fiction. Real science is in the REAL world.

Well, I'm quite liking this--yeah....

I had put the wrong Sandman book here wrt what I'd be reading. This is the correct one, and I must say, it's both evocative and original. I might have repeated content problems with this, so will just stop reading. But, it really depends: I mostly loved Lexx, and I had repeated problems with that show. Context matters a lot, and sometimes I can overlook things if there are a lot of good things around the bad ones.

This started good--but it's been very confusing to me, and I really didn't like something in it. Finishing this has become a strain. I'm not enjoying it as much as I should....

Been doing too much lately, so now one of my energy crashes started. I had my husband get me this book & a film from the library--today I've just been relaxing w/these things & will watch another film. Turner's one of my favorite artists; I need to paint more soon. Sometimes I get tired of even thinking of doing it, because I'm too focused on realism. Want to do some atmospheric abstracts. This book'll inspire me....

So I see that this comic is from before that Wonder Woman subseries I've reviewed here. This one's part of the backstory.

Wonderful coloring in the art.

I don’t know--I just don’t know if I can do this. And do I want to? Uh, right off the bat I’m quite annoyed and offended here, and I might quit reading really soon....

Huh? Is this person psychic? Or...

Uh, I'm sure my husband would confirm that I'd be the one person who does report the broken vending machine. Sometimes when he's angry he'll make blanket sweeping statements about people and their behavior, and I'll point out, "But I don't do that." Which is when he'll say, "I'm talking about humans." lol

The story's actually gotten more than pretty good to me--including quite poignant. And I think I know how the story will wind up....

I love looking at concept art so much; I’ve been thinking about it more lately and have just mentioned it a few times at a GR group. And I’ve personally found that as hard as doing concept art looks, once you start doing it, you realize it’s way harder than that.

Though the art in here is quite creative ideas-wise, I don't care for the style of it. And I think the protagonist is an unlikeable skank. However, the story's still pretty good.

The art is mostly underwhelming, but the story's all right so far, feels at least a bit Twilight-Zone-ish.

Okay, one more update because I don't know if I will finish this today--I don't want to rush it because I just love looking at the pages....

The background-less painting of the robot "dog" on the Chapter Three header page is so damn cute and so damn good! It's right up my alley.

I'll probably finish this tomorrow and just post a review then. I know I have too much juice in me sometimes, and then I post too many updates!

The art on the Fringes pages is particularly fantastic--that Minn Kota belly...thing, crossing its skinny legs--hilarious! Earlier: "Every bot for themselves!" Haha! The dialogue in this series gets so funny sometimes. To me, it often sounds like it's delivered in a deadpan way.

Poor Tim! The art is amazing; I could stare at it all day. I wish many more comic artists would work in traditional watercolor, but I know first-hand how impossible watercolors can be.

Is it just me?? What on earth is going on with Amazon . com today. If I try to click on ebook versions of books, a horizontal list of OTHER books comes up, and I can't click into those book pages either!

Stellar art as usual! Ugh, what a nasty old man. Stop it, ya dope!

Holy sheet.....

Back in the old days, some disgraces were apparently worse than others…ooops. Maybe in these days too.

"...he knew that this strange and icy calm was the first numbness of a heart stricken by grief so unexpected as for a time to be rendered almost incomprehensible by a blank stupor of astonishment..."

Okay, it's finally becoming clearer....

...This one isn't going as well for me as the others in this series, but I'll see what happens. Sometimes I need more time to warm up to a book, or the book needs time to warm up, or maybe both of those things are true.