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[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by grant

I don't really get the comic book (or graphic novel) thing. There are so few words and you have to rely on someone else's interpretation of what things look like. Few illustrations are ever as compelling as the image in my mind's eye.

On the other hand, a good artist can give a character an expression that if fully described in prose would be clunky and unweildy, but as a single frame of art is eloquent. There are many such instances in Sandman... I wish I could read that again for the first time.

[Perry Winkle]

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

On the other hand, a good artist can give a character an expression that if fully described in prose would be clunky and unweildy, but as a single frame of art is eloquent. There are many such instances in Sandman... I wish I could read that again for the first time.

I'm another 50 pages in. Now I completely get it. Fantastic.