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[salinea]

Woke up insanely late. I guess I'm getting lazy again XD

I won moderator's choice at x1999_awards, for an icon that was not very good even for me, which is the comm where the moderator was making an ass of herself in a discussion with hiragizawa and I was considering quitting for this reason ^^;; I think quitting it is, doesn't look like she's going to straighthen her act.

I borrowed Endless Nights from Pierre the other day and started reading it yesterday circa 5am. I still love Del, Death, Desire and Destruction the most. The one by Manara was especially good ;) And I loved the one with Del as Delight yet - she's adorable and didn't change that much now did she ? - Despair's chapter was very interesting too : some genuinely chilling ideas out of the 15. Need to finish reading it, anyway.

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[cygna-hime.livejournal.com]

Isn't the Despair chapter so freaky? It keeps creeping up on me when I'm not looking, and making me sad. "It is a writer, with nothing left that he knows how to say. It is an artist, and fingers that will never catch the vision." <-I need an icon of this, seriously. For my depressed and/or dramatic creative moments.

Repeat after me: GNeil is God. Worship accordingly.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

*nods*

I was really eeeeep-ed by the cat one.
the one about the list is also very good, in a funny way
And i found the one about "his lover" very touching.
And i loved the one written as an essay subject.
And the one about the woman dying is one of my genuine big fears *is creeped out*

Did you read Cages ? Not written by Neil, but all by McKean but i found it to be an amazing analysis of the creativity process.

Oh yeah, Neil is definitly there among my own personnal pantheon. I'm such a pagan ^^

[cygna-hime.livejournal.com]

No, I haven't read many other US comics than Endless Nights, actually. Need to get through Sandman in sequential order, and need it now.

On the other hand, considering some of the lines GNeil has been known to take on gods (read 'Murder Mysteries' for angsty angel slash--I'm not talking subtext, neither!--as well as a prime example), maybe we'd better leave him out. *contemplates* Meep.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

You say this as if Angel slash was a bad thing. :p (when I was in Munich we went to a churche which had a statue with two angels holding hands and i started yelling "look at the gay angels, how cute !" which might have slightly disturbed my friends ^^)

Anyway, he seemed to rather like gods in American Gods, and Brief Lives.

Yes, yes you do. Horrible graphic, but the story !!!

There's some fucking good US comics out there, and I barely know that field.

[cygna-hime.livejournal.com]

Angelslash bad? Now why would I think that? *blinks in perplexity* Angelslash is a wonderful thing...although whether you can call a romance between genderless beings 'slash', and what you do call it if not, is a whole other issue.

See, I haven't read American Gods, so I wouldn't know. (Stupid parents, who get it for me, say I'm too young to read it, then proceed to greatly enjoy reading it themselves...) I seem to recall GNeil saying, at one point or another, though, that he intended the Judeo-Christian God to be a good piece older and, well, crueler than the newer gods. Which is fun--I like scary!God.

My friends are disturbed by my angelslash fascination. I never should have shown them my Psycho!God/Lucifer fic.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

That does sound very weird of your parents. Besides, how old are you ? Who would prevent someone from reading books whatever their contents past 12 ? (or 14 for real porn at the least !)
Oh, God's not a wussie, all right, he's one tough fellow XD
You should read the Lucifer comics. It's spinned off after Sandman, and there's quite some subtext between God and Lucifer AND God and Michael.

Endless Nights

[generalblossom.livejournal.com]

Ialso thought the Despair story very good, it is about Despair after all. And Delirium´s story has Barnabas which is of course a plus for any story. Destruction´s story OTOH I did not like at all, and the art was dreadful IMO, postures which did not make sense.

Manara´s art really fitted desire´s story, though ok, a quibble, I expected the resolution to be otherwise, her to drive them to killing themselves fighting than just keeping them waiting for the help. If I am remembering it correctly? I guess my favorite story was Prado´s Dream, I loved that setting and while I did not love Prado´s art at first I do love it now.

Re: Endless Nights

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

*giggles* delirium's story has /delirium/, that's enough for me

Destruction's story might be the worst of them, yes.

I had the same expectation out of this story, but it was still good like that. The point was still Desire - and I do love Desire, such a wicked girl/boy ^_^

The Dream one wasn't bad, but I don't think it was my favourite. Though it was lots of fun ^_^