I'm just overjoyed that a company, or author, didn't bend the knee here... Sandman is the #1 thing that people keep telling me I have to read, yet me disliking comics overall has kept me from making a more solid go of it.
But when I saw this pop up on audible I pre-ordered it hoping it wasn't going to be a mauled shitshow.
Behold, it's a bad adaptation because it didn't ditch shit we didn't like!
And that flaw is nowhere more conspicuous than in its word-for-word reproductions of The Sandman’s casual violence against queer people and women. These are plot-inessential background elements that easily could have been softened or diminished for a 2020 adaptation.
Take the character of Judy, a doomed lesbian woman on the outs with her girlfriend, who appears in one issue only. Did we need to keep the detail that the first queer couple in the story is physically abusive? Did we need the multiple fleeting, florid references to the brutalization of queer, underage, male sex workers? Did we need to create an audioscape of a man “nervously” raping the muse Calliope? Or to painstakingly, without edits, retell the plot-inessential one-shot story “Facade” — the moral of which can be read as “Suicide isn’t tragic if you’re freakish enough”? And could we have taken a second look, perhaps, at the suggestion that “it” is just as appropriate a pronoun as “he,” “she,” or “they” for Dream’s genderfluid sibling, Desire?
Current year delicate sensibilities cannot handle anything but the most insipid, bland subjects.
I swear, children are not this weak.
I'm just overjoyed that a company, or author, didn't bend the knee here... Sandman is the #1 thing that people keep telling me I have to read, yet me disliking comics overall has kept me from making a more solid go of it.
But when I saw this pop up on audible I pre-ordered it hoping it wasn't going to be a mauled shitshow.
He's on the list of my favorite authors due, in part, to American Gods.
And I don't care what he does in his own time, nor what he enjoys.
I only read Sandman: The Dream Hunters. It's not a comic book per se, it's more like a short story with some illustrations, drawn by Yoshitaka Amano.
I highly recommend it, one of the best things I've read.
I have to look into it.
The description you used is almost exactly the discription I'd use for King's Cycle of the Werewolf.
That means "censor".
Oh there's a range of meanings... but what they all come down to is "alter".
Behold, it's a bad adaptation because it didn't ditch shit we didn't like!
Which pleases me as I wanted an adaptation not a modification to pander to current political fuckwits.
Fucks sake. One can only imagine what they'll do to Wanda, the tranny that doesnt menstruate and gets called out for it by Thessaly.
"Because you are menstruating. No one else here is. Hazel's pregnant, Wanda's a man..."