Hanging with the Dream King
Overheard at the Neil Gaiman signing during “San Andreas Comic-Con ‘05” (Theme: “We love comics to a fault!”)
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“Oh my god, oh my god…I love you. I just, you don‘t know how much I love you. Oh god. I promised I wouldn‘t cry. My mascara is totally running, isn‘t it? God, I‘m such an idiot. I just, you know, love you! Ack! My hands are totally shaking!”
NG: “Thanks!”
“OH MY GOD HE SHOOK MY HAND!”
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“So, I made all these illustrations based on your stories, and I posted them on the message board and “Adaline the Reaver” said they were totally awesome, so should I email them to you, or do you want me to send them to your publisher? I can totally send them to your publisher, if you want to use them, and stuff.”
NG: “Well, we can’t really…”
“I even got a tattoo of them…See? It’s just ballpoint pen. But when I turn 18 I’m TOTALLY getting it for real. For now I just draw them on everyday.”
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“At first I was really excited about Henry Selick directing the adaptation. What with The Nightmare Before Christmas, and all, I felt he would best be able to capture the creepy tones and dark style of the book. However, he said in an interview “It’s more of a Hansel and Gretel seduction into a place that appears to be colorful and wonderful, but turns out to be something more challenging .” “Colorful and wonderful”!? “Challanging”!? Is he mad?! At this point it’s all I can do to cross my fingers and hope for the best.”
NG: “….I, guess…yeah. That’s what we’re all doing, really.
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NG: “So how would you like this made out?“
“Could you make it out to Firespirit? No, wait, Adamintia. Or, how about Adamintia Moondancer? Oh shit, no, Tracy uses “Moondancer on her blog…Ravenwing? Yeah, make it out to Ravenwing.
NG: “Ravenwing?”
“Yeah. Ravenwing. Firespirit.
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“You said you were gonna write more stories about Shadow?”
NG: “Yes, in fact I’m working on some new…”
“I totally think they should be graphic novels, because I really want to see what he looks like.”
NG: “Well, I like to leave that up to the imagina-”
“I think he looks like Hellboy. You know, human, but you know, Hellboy-esque.”
NG: “I suppose you could…”
“Totally a bad-ass. Like Hellboy.”
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“So I picked up “Sandman: Book of Dreams” because its cover was more interesting than like all the crap novels which are like 95% of the library and I had no idea it was a comic and my mom always told me that girls didn’t read comics but I read this book and something was like “tap tap tap” in the back of my mind and I couldn’t place it but it was so familiar Then I realized–”
NG: “I’m sorry but there are a lot of people in line, here.”
“If you need me, me and Neil’ll be hanging out with the Dream King..“ It was a line from a Tori Amos song and I mean I a sit-up-in-bed-flip-to-the-front-cover-lightbulb-goes-off kinda moment ‘cause I had always loved that line, even when I didn’t know what it meant so I checked out as many books as I could find in my libraries and I’m currently reading “Neverwhere” and everyone wants to borrow them but I don’t lend them out…”
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“Hi, I’m DerangedElegance, you know, on the forum? This is Xanthacid.”
“Yeah, we were wondering, since The Endless are forbidden to love mortals, but Dream and Destruction have taken lovers…What about the other Endless?”
“I really can’t see Destiny doing it, but Death seems to make sense.”
“I think Death meeting Thanos, from the Marvel Universe, would be interesting, since Thanos extinguished entire star systems to please the Death of his world when he was in love with her. It would end horribly, of course, but it would be interesting”
“Oooohh Death and John Constantine! I read a fanfic with them together. It was some plot of Desire and Lucifer’s, man was it sexy.”
“I would like to see Death fall in love with a mortal. It would be ironic, I think, if Dream found out. Kind of like, “I’ve been the one to fall for mortals before, but you?” Cause Death seems to be so perfect most of the time.”
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“Oh that’s awesome! I’m so gonna write this! I need to write a story about Death. You know, I think I’ll have her fall for a girl, you know. Just because.
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“It is late and I am sick. I take handful of sand and watch the grains fall to the toilet bowl, each grain means a dream less fulfilled …Oh dream master take away these nightmares and replace them with nothingness”
NG: “Daemonica,” is it?”
“Daemonica. With an “E.”
NG: “Right. Nice cape, Daemonica”
“With an…”
NG: “E. Yes, yes, with a fucking “E.”
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“Gaiman? More like GAYMAN! Heh. God, just look at all these ‘tards. Anyway, do you know where the Spiderman guys are?”